Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2009

The Commonwealth’s Clean Energy Biofuels Act, signed in July 2008, also required Massachusetts to seek an agreement with its fellow RGGI member states to implement a LCFS on a regional basis. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Fuels Policy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a revised draft of California’s proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Strategy. SLCPs may account for an estimated 40% of global warming, increasing the impacts of climate change. —“Revised Proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy”.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

One of the current focuses of Congress is the clean energy and climate bill. Part of that debate has been about the squeeze such a bill would put on oil imports by saving oil through increased development and deployment of cleaner, more efficient vehicles such as plug-in hybrids as well as increasing domestic production.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. And we have to do it quickly. —President Obama.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2010

The study examined the fuel-cycle CO 2 , SO 2 , and NO x emissions of EVs in China in both current (2008) and future (2030) periods and compared them with those of conventional gasoline vehicles and gasoline hybrids. Generation mix of the six interprovincial power grids in 2008. and NO x emissions. Credit: ACS, Huo et al.

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Coal Gasoline-Electric Gasoline Pollution 291

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings. Transportation. —Draft Scoping Plan Update.

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Transportation Emissions California Ozone 273

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2009

The EIB is providing this funding under its European Clean Transport Facility (ECTF), which is part of its wider response to the crisis and focuses on car emissions reduction and the development of new-generation vehicle technologies. In 2008 the EIB signed loans totaling €57.6 billion) in loans for cleaner vehicles, thereof €3.4

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced a set of proposals to transition Washington to cleaner sources of energy and to meet greenhouse gas (GHG) emission limits adopted by the state Legislature in 2008. Cleaner transportation options for consumers. Clean energy industry funding. Cap-and-trade. M, capital budget).

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MARCH 22, 2010

The other goal, of course, is the system’s ultimate purpose: to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by channeling funds into cleaner technologies. Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Mitigation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The design of the California cap-and-trade program allows linkage with programs established by partner jurisdictions in the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) to create a regional market system. The program is expected to reduce GHG emissions between 18 and 27 MMTCO 2 e in 2020. Cost Containment Mechanisms. Sector-Based Offset Credits.

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2015 Transportation Fuel Emissions 210

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

The largest one-year emissions drop California has ever achieved was at the height of the Great Recession in 2009, when climate pollution fell 6.1%. The fact is, we’ve never come anywhere near cutting emissions five percent in a single year in a period of economic stability—and yet, in order to meet our climate goal by 2030, we have to.

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JUNE 30, 2015

Four additional cities—Amsterdam, Lima, Catalonia (Barcelona) and Rome— signed up to the Global Clean Bus Declaration at the 1 st global Clean Bus Summit in London. The Clean Bus Declaration is an open document and C40 welcomes additional signatory cities. Earlier post.)

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London BYD Clean Cleaning 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2009

The project in north-central Alberta aims to develop a commercial operation that produces clean, synthesis gas for power generation. In 2008, Swan Hills Synfuels proposed a UCG project at a cost of C$400-600 million with a nameplate capacity of 3910,000 m 3 /d of syngas and 2,000 t/d of CO 2. Earlier post.). Linc Update in Australia.

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Coal Australia Vietnam Oil-Sands 150

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JUNE 22, 2009

Nissan also announced the introduction of an automatic transmission (AT) model with a clean-diesel engine in the Japanese market, planned for spring 2010. Introduction of an original EV test vehicle in August 2008. This unit provides cleaner emissions and utilizes half the amount of precious metals compared with conventional catalysts.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric. A Perfect Storm for Water Counting Calories and Counting Carbon: The Role of.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Wheeler adduced four reasons to support that argument: price, safety, environmental impact and incentivizing the purchase of new, cleaner, safer cars. We will be taking joint action with the Department of Transportation to bring clarity to the proper—and improper—scope and use of the Clean Air Act preemption waiver.

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Fuel Economy Standards California EPA 170

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

Oceans, already expanding from warmth and melting glaciers, would rise, increasing coastal flooding; a chain reaction of climate changes is projected to lead to harsher, more widespread droughts and more powerful storms. Lomborg estimates that for every dollar spent, the world will avoid only about two cents of climate damage.

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APRIL 10, 2010

Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. As Senators Graham, Kerry and Lieberman try to resuscitate the climate change bill by introducing a revised bill in mid-to-late April, twenty-three U.S. The first auction for allowances was held on September 25, 2008.

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