California's Greenhouse Gas Initiative: Experts on Transportation, Energy, Air Quality.

(From AScribe)

DAVIS, Calif. -- The following UC Davis faculty members are available to speak on topics related to California's new initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, and air pollution and human health.

- Experts drafting the state Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Cleaner and alternative fuels

- Biomass in California's energy future

- Power systems for hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles

- Hydrogen fuel production

- Clean auto fuels and technologies

- Using existing energy supplies better

- Turning garbage into biogas

Air quality

- Air pollution, climate and health -) Air pollution and lung health

Infrastructure, planning and behavior

- Transportation infrastructure and air quality

- Transportation planning and policy

- Travel behavior

Context: media, geology and economics

- What the public is hearing

- Oil geology and future finds

- Economics of transportation

EXPERTS DRAFTING THE STATE LOW CARBON FUEL STANDARD -- The plan to help California reduce oil imports, reduce greenhouse gases and boost investments in alternative fuels will be written by four UC researchers, including three from UC Davis. "This very innovative and very important new policy will be a model for the rest of the world," says UC Davis' Dan Sperling, the project co-director and an international authority on research and development in advanced transportation fuels and fuel technology. Sperling directs the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. Joining Sperling to design the state plan during the next three months are Bryan Jenkins, an expert in converting biomass to energy and leader of the Bioenergy Research Group at UC Davis, and Joan Ogden, a UC Davis professor of environmental …