Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

Addressing climate change requires not only a clean electrical grid, but also a clean fuel to reduce emissions from industrial heat, long-haul heavy transportation, and long-duration energy storage. Hydrogen and its derivatives could be that fuel, argues a commentary by four energy researchers in the journal Joule.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2010

Ceres is a national network of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working with companies and investors to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change. More than 25 companies are involved in oil shale development.

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Coal Oil Water Oil Prices 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Tuesday night, President Obama will speak to the nation about the Gulf catastrophe. Tuesday night President Obama will address our nation. The missing piece we dream President Obama will follow up with is an emergency-response roadmap to a world where increasingly scarce and costly oil is used only when needed.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 7, 2009

I hope you’re as happy and energized as I am about Obama’s impending Presidency and his game-changing energy and environmental appointments. Change is but mere weeks away. It’s all coming eight years later than it should, but the Climate Change Calvary has now arrived and they’re riding hard and fast.

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Water Climate Change California Climate 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2009

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has set the model year 2011 CAFE standards, which it estimates will raise the industry-wide combined light-duty vehicle fuel economy average to 27.3 mpg, save 887 million gallons of fuel over the lifetime of the MY 2011 cars and light trucks, and reduce CO 2 emissions by 8.3

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2011 MPG Standards Industrial 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

Ratings of how a model compares to all others for smog emissions and emissions of pollution that contribute to climate change. In July, the Obama Administration plans to finalize the first national fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards for commercial trucks, vans and buses built in 2014 to 2018.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The scheme, which would be enforced by setting a ceiling for the amount of CO2 a car emits, will become operational in 2011. Barack Obama releases Bush administration torture memos 5. What weve got to get people used to is the idea that electric cars will become quite normal, quite usual," said Hoon. My Web del.icio.us

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Environment Electric Cars Cars 2009 51

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2011

Proposing the new standards on the same timeframe—by 1 September 2011—signals continued collaboration that could lead to an extension of the current National Clean Car Program, providing automakers certainty as they work to build the next generation of cleaner, more fuel efficient cars. The EPA standard would be equivalent to 35.5

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. Do the simple math, Obama (ho,ho) and learn just how stupid thou really art. in chinese ?,

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Volt Green Electric Cars 2009 42

Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2017

In November 2016, then US Secretary of State John Kerry had rejected the controversial Keystone XL, citing combatting climate change as the critical factor. Keystone’s first application for the Keystone XL pipeline was submitted on 19 September 2008, and a Final EIS was published on 26 August 2011. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In order to comply with the Obama standards, auto makers need to sell many more electric vehicles. According to the Obama EPA’s 2012 analysis, even a much more stringent version of the rule than the one that eventually finalized would have lowered global temperatures by only two-one hundredths of a degree Celsius by 2100. The George W.

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Fuel Economy Standards California EPA 170

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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. Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

The announcement of the new awards comes a day after high-profile solar company Solyndra, which had received a $535-million Federal loan guarantee under the Obama Administration’s stimulus program, ceased operations, laid off its 1,110 workers and filed for bankruptcy. — Washington Post , 1 Sep 2011.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Obama Administration doesnt understand that. It isa fundamental change in direction for GM. " President Obamas auto task force doesnt see it that way. But GM says it wont get the money until the Obama administration is satisfied the company is financially viable. General Motors has sought $10.3

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 1, 2011

from this URL for all of 2011 – until now. Stop runaway climate change? That includes our once inspiring President who let the Republicans play him for a climate chump from the day he took office and has never figured out that his only chance to succeed was to do so at their expense. Wow, March First already.

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