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The manufacturing of Portland cement leads to notable greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which has driven interest in alternative concrete mixture designs, cement production processes, and other emissions mitigation strategies. To demonstrate the efficacy of such mitigation strategies, environmental impact assessments are commonly performed. However, examination of the probability that a reduction in GHG emissions will occur given known limitations on data quality and variability in data remains poorly studied.

The objective of this study is to develop a cohesive, unified dataset of life cycle inventories needed to quantify the effects of material, energy, waste, and emission flows on the environmental impacts of concrete.

This policy brief summarizes findings from research that examined the potential population division effect of highways on coyote populations in the Bay Area and Sierra Nevada foothills.

This white paper summarizes the state-of-knowledge and state-of-the-art in pavement life cycle assessment modeling, with particular emphasis on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions and on interpretation and analysis that lead to GHG reductions from the on-road transportation sector.