Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

In five years—2011 to 2016—the LCFS helped encourage a 57% uptick in the use of clean fuels in California. Signatories to the letter include clean fuel producers, vehicle manufacturers, and vehicle fleet operators. The state’s flourishing clean economy was a major focus of the letter. Since 2011, $1.6

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AUGUST 26, 2017

If you were with me last summer at Sunstock 2016 held on the Autry Museum field you know what a blast we had from start to finish. The best music. The best audience. The best vibe. Great food and drink. And all of it powered by the sun and the solar PV systems on site.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Beyond 2025, ARB notes, the driving force for lowering emissions in California will thus be climate change. Advanced Clean Car (ACC) package, the ZEV regulation along with new LEV III smog-forming pollutant and GHG standards can be the catalyst to that transformative process. Clean Fuels Outlet (CFO) Regulation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

An annual ' tracking the progress of California Climate Investments, released by the California Air Resources Board and the California Department of Finance, finds that nearly $1.4 Overall, 60 new clean school buses were delivered to rural school districts throughout the state. To date, $9.3

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the final Clean Power Plan (CPP). Under the Clean Power Plan, by 2030, renewables will account for 28% of national capacity, up from 22% in the proposed rule. The 32% reduction target is 9% more aggressive than in the draft proposal of the CPP released in 2014. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

Among new methods to increase clean energy use in Japan by 8% to 16%, Nissan improved energy procurement at manufacturing plants that require a large volume of electricity, including the Technical Center, Tochigi Plant, Oppama Plant, Yokohama Plant and Zama Operation Center.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and the Chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, today signed a new cooperation agreement to advance cleaner vehicles and fuels. Canada is developing a Clean Fuel Standard that will cut emissions by 30 million tonnes in 2030.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2017

Continental has successfully conducted tests on the synthetic diesel fuel oxymethylene ether (OME) in test vehicles, including its Super Clean Electrified Diesel vehicle presented this year. Germany launched a 3-year study of oxymethylene ethers (OME) as clean diesel fuels in 2016 ( earlier post ) and. Ford is leading a €3.5-million

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a determination under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from certain types of aircraft engines contribute to the pollution that causes climate change and endangers Americans’ health and the environment.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2014

Selin and colleagues compared the health benefits to the economic costs of three climate policies: a clean-energy standard, a transportation policy, and a cap-and-trade program. Now that states are on the hook to come up with plans to meet federal emissions targets by 2016, you can bet they will take a close look at these results.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The green mobility objective proposes four different quantified targets to be achieved by 2030 and 2050, one for each of four key dimensions: climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, air pollution, physical inactivity and noise pollution. The set targets are consistent with international agreements.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

If Uber wants to lead the change and be part of the solution for our cities, then the company should commit to 100% electric rides by 2025 in key European capitals. The campaign calls on Uber to go 100% clean in large European cities by 2025. —Yoann Le Petit, new mobility expert with T&E.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2017

The program aims to contribute to the resolution of environmental concerns and cultivate a new generation of leaders who will drive change on both a local and global basis. This year’s theme will be “Biodiversity Conservation” or “Climate Change”. 2016 Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program Recipients. WWF Hungary.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2020

In 2016, Parties to the Montreal Protocol signed the Kigali Amendment, aiming to reduce the climate impact of HFCs, whose emissions have grown in response to their use as replacements to ozone depleting substances.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

The presence of ammonia was first discovered in the upper troposphere in 2016 using the analysis of averaged MIPAS (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding) infrared limb-emission spectra. This is important, especially in the relatively clean upper troposphere. The emission sources are limited up there.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2016

Total renewable fuel volumes would grow by some 690 million gallons between 2016 and 2017. billion gallons in 2016. Cellulosic biofuel—which requires 60% lifecycle carbon emissions reductions—would grow by 82 million gallons (35%), to 312 million gallons between 2016 and 2017. Source: EPA. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2020

Under the Clean Air Act, in 2016 EPA found that emissions of GHGs from engines used in certain aircraft causes, or contributes to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare. This process will take time, EPA said, and it is critical that EPA complete this part of the process so that the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. 50% clean power target.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2016

Reliable information about the actual local effects is essential, but has been lacking in food-biofuel-climate debates. —lead author Keith Kline of ORNL’s Climate Change Science Institute. 2016) “Reconciling food security and bioenergy: priorities for action,” GCB Bioenergy doi: 10.1111/gcbb.12366. Kline et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

Within each manufacturer’s “balance”, each of these extra clean cars would count as 3.5 from 2016 and 1 from 2024. Climate Change Emissions Europe Fuel Efficiency Policy' cars in 2013, falling to 1.5 MEPs are expected to vote on the proposal in July 2013. Draft report.

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MARCH 13, 2016

The Consortium that is funded through this solicitation will form a new technical track under the US-China Clean Energy Research Center , a bilateral initiative to encourage R&D collaboration and accelerate technology development and deployment in both countries. Clean Vehicles. Funding available is $12.5 Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Brazil’s National Plan on Climate Change is a set of inter-ministerial programs designed to cut emissions in the transportation, forestry, industrial and energy sectors. Initiatives will be implemented during the lead-up to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympic Games being held in that country, and beyond.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2019

The flight from Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam marked a milestone in the development of a clean, alternative aviation fuel to reduce carbon emissions. Deep decarbonization of energy-intensive industries has a ripple effect on food security and climate action. —Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to find under section 231(a) of the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from commercial aircraft engines endanger the health and welfare of Americans by contributing to climate change. The ICAO standards are expected to be adopted in early 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Source: DOE workshop April 2016. Responses to the RFI must be submitted electronically to H2Scale@ee.doe.gov with the subject line “DE-FOA-0001655 - RFI” no later than 5:00pm (ET) on 4 November 2016. Click to enlarge. commercial viability of fuel cell vehicle technology has been demonstrated (commercial vehicles being sold).

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

Under that, the plan sketches out 3 strategic goals: Strategic Objective One: Advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries.

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MAY 2, 2018

million deaths in 2016, while household air pollution from cooking with polluting fuels and technologies caused an estimated 3.8 Around 3 billion people—more than 40% of the world’s population—still do not have access to clean cooking fuels and technologies in their homes, the main source of household air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2016

UNFCCC’s Clean Development Mechanism), programs (e.g. As of 29 September 2016, 64 states, representing more than 83.8% It is also important that states and regions, especially developed and fast-developing ones, adopt additional measures to mitigate aviation’s climate impact. REDD+) or projects (e.g. —ICSA.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

In August 2016, Broad-Ocean became Ballard’s largest shareholder following an investment of $28.3 In August 2016, Broad-Ocean became Ballard’s largest shareholder following an investment of $28.3 million in Ballard common shares, representing approximately 9.9% of Ballard’s outstanding common shares following the transaction.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

When Congress passed the Clean Air Act, it never gave EPA the explicit authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions for the purpose of stopping global climate change. The resulting set of new standards will cover model years 2012-2016, and will require an average fuel economy standard of 35.5

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

EPA’s final findings respond to the 2007 US Supreme Court decision that GHGs fit within the Clean Air Act definition of air pollutants. billion barrels of oil over the lifetime of model year 2012-2016 vehicles, according to EPA analysis. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Mandatory regional criteria pollutant reduction targets will be established in the 2016 State Implementation Plans (SIPs) with expected reductions on the order of 90% below 2010 levels in the South Coast and similar reductions in the San Joaquin Valley by the year 2032. Transportation. —Draft Scoping Plan Update.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2015

The new vessel, currently under construction by Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd for CMAL (Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd), will be Scotland’s third hybrid ferry when it enters service in autumn 2016, carrying up to 150 passengers and 23 cars or two HGVs (Heavy Goods Vehicles) with a service speed of 9 knots.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2009

The scoping plan for AB32, California’s climate change legislation, originally had proposed a cool cars measure based on reflective paints. Costs for the windows are expected to average $70 for the 2012 standard, and about $250 for the 2016 standard, with annual savings in gas of $16 and $20 respectively. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2017

In addition, AB-378 extends the Air Resources Board’s (ARB) cap-and-trade authority to 2030; prohibits a facility from increasing its annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared to the 2014-2016 average; and authorizes ARB to adopt “no-trade zones” or facility-specific declining GHG limits, as specified.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the details of their long-anticipated energy and climate change legislation on Wednesday, 12 May. Industrial sources will not enter the program until 2016. Clean Energy Research, Development and Deployment. Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.),

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