The much-anticipated blueprint for fighting global warming by reducing the amount of carbon emitted when transportation fuels are used--commissioned by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in January--has been released by the University of California.

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The much-anticipated blueprint for fighting global warming by reducing the amount of carbon emitted when transportation fuels are used--commissioned by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in January--has been released by the University of California. The "Low Carbon Fuel Standard," designed to stimulate improvements in transportation-fuel technologies, is expected to become the foundation for similar initiatives in other states, as well as nationally and internationally...