Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

Proposed Lease Sale 233, scheduled to take place in New Orleans in August, will be the third offshore auction under the Administration’s Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017 (Five Year Program). billion in high bids and a 20-million-acre sale held last November that netted nearly $134 million.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The sales will be the fourth and fifth offshore auctions under the Administration’s Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017 (Five Year Program), which makes all areas with the highest-known resource potential available for oil and gas leasing in order to further reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 229, which will be held on 28 November 2012, in New Orleans, will build on two major Gulf of Mexico lease sales in the past year—a 21 million acre sale held last December and a 39 million acre sale held in June.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

President Obama announced that the Department of Energy has offered conditional commitments for a total of $8.33 —President Obama. Units 3 and 4 are expected to begin commercial operation in 2016 and 2017, respectively. The project is scheduled to be the first US nuclear power plant to break ground in nearly three decades.

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JULY 21, 2016

Alone, the federal government plans to purchase more than 500 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) or EVs in fiscal year 2017. potential longer-term innovations including evolution up to 350 kilowatt (kW) fast charging. Municipal fleet electrification.

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APRIL 2, 2018

The Obama Administration’s determination was wrong. Obama’s EPA cut the Midterm Evaluation process short with politically charged expediency, made assumptions about the standards that didn’t comport with reality, and set the standards too high. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) EPA also held a public hearing on this topic.

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AUGUST 21, 2014

million acres, builds on five previous sales held under the Obama Administration’s Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017 (Five Year Program). A total of 14 offshore energy companies submitted 93 bids. The lease sale, which offered 21.6 billion in bid revenues.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

If President Obama were to implement a 60 mpg by 2025 rule, 28% of respondents would feel more favorable toward him, while 14% would feel less favorable. If Obama refused to implement a 60 mpg standard, 13% would view him more favorably, while 25% would view him less favorably. The standards will cover model years 2017 to 2025.

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JULY 29, 2011

The new Obama Administration proposal to increase fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks to an average 54.5 It also assumes the mpg requirement will be phased in at 5% per year from 2017 through 2025 as proposed. mpg by 2016).

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 28, 2012

Department of Energy and the Obama administration have confirmed new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for all cars made between 2017 and 2025. After a long, political battle, both on Capitol Hill and in Detroit, the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Yesterday, auto dealers met with their members of Congress to try to delay new rules that would stiffen the gas-mileage requirements for cars sold in model years 2017 to 2025.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 28, 2011

indicate that the Obama Administration is urging the EPA and NHTSA to push for a 5-percent improvement each year between 2017. The two Federal agencies that set gas mileage and emissions standards for future cars may propose rules that require corporate average fuel economy to reach 56 miles per gallon by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2014

The latest lease sales build on the first three sales held under the Obama Administration’s Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017 (Five Year Program) that offered more than 60 million acres for development and garnered $1.4 billion in bid revenues.

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MARCH 16, 2016

UPS is working to meet its goal of logging one billion miles with its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet by the end of 2017, using a Rolling Laboratory approach to determine the right alternative fuel solutions to meet the unique needs of route-specific driving environments. At UPS, we own our fleet and our infrastructure.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Attempts at long-term planning to reduce energy use are largely stalled in the toxic atmosphere of no-holds-barred politics, with the exception of tougher gas-mileage rules for 2017-2025 vehicles that were announced by the Obama Administration earlier this.

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DECEMBER 21, 2015

The company has a goal of driving one billion miles with its alternative fuels fleet—known as the Rolling Laboratory—by the end of 2017. UPS was one of the initial 13 leading companies to take the Obama Administration’s American Business Act on Climate Pledge, committing to reduce greenhouse gas emission intensity 20% by 2020.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 19, 2012

You'd think that if President Obama, two government agencies, and 13 of the world's largest carmakers supported a set of new regulations to improve gas mileage, they might be popular with auto dealers too.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 12, 2011

Two days ago, the NHTSA said that it would require annual gas-mileage improvements of somewhere between 2 and 7 percent each year between 2017 and 2025. Corporate average fuel economy requirements have already been set through 2016, an action facilitated by the Obama Administration soon after taking office.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2019

In 2009, the Obama administration launched the Car Allowance Rebate System, a program that was intended to not only stimulate spending, but also to improve energy efficiency and safety by encouraging people to upgrade to new cars. Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago, won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2012

As President Obama discussed in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, DOI is finalizing the next Five-Year Program for 2012-2017, which will make more than 75% of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas estimated on the OCS available for development.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 1, 2011

Much debate will occur--and that's putting it politely--over the next round of gas-mileage standards, which the EPA hopes to finalize next year for 2017-2025 vehicles. Earlier this week, news reports from Washington indicated that the Obama Administration and EPA are pushing for 56.2 mpg as the average fleet goal to be reached by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The Board’s action is the third and final step California committed to as part of an agreement with automobile manufacturers and two federal agencies announced last May by President Obama in the Rose Garden to establish the harmonized national GHG standard.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

He served in the Obama administration as the Founding Director of the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) (2009–2012), as the Acting Undersecretary for Energy (2011–2012), and as the Vice Chair of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (2014–2017).

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

The Consumer Federation of America has recommended that President Barack Obama set a fleet-wide car and light truck fuel economy standard of 60mpg by 2025. Its recommendation was made with the Obama Administration scheduled to release a Notice of Intent for 2017-2025 light duty fuel economy standards on September 30.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

A new economic analysis in an issue brief from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is recommending that the Obama Administration set a fleet-wide car and light truck fuel economy standard of 60 mpg (3.92 The Obama Administration will release a Notice of Intent for 2017-2025 light duty fuel economy standards on 30 September.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 13, 2012

New CAFE standards proposed for 2017 to 2025 build on previous economy rules introduced by the Obama Administration. New fuel economy rules for car makers in the US will price many ordinary Americans out of the market for a new car, the country’s National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) warns today.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

President Obama announced the DOE “Clean Energy Grand Challenge” in March 2012 with the goal of enabling US companies to be the first in the world to produce plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) that are as affordable and convenient for the average American family as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles within the next 10 years. —Blueprint.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2009

Shortly after taking office in January, President Barack Obama directed EPA to assess the appropriateness of denying the waiver. The Pavley II regulations, which start with the 2017 model year, will come to the Air Resources Board for consideration in 2010. Adapting those would require the request and issuance of another EPA waiver.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx joined President Barack Obama to announce that $600 million will be made available to fund transportation projects across the country under a sixth round of the US Department of Transportation’s Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery ( TIGER ) competitive grant program. 2014 TIGER NOFA.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

The report comes shortly before an anticipated announcement from the Obama Administration on a plan to set national standards for fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions for heavy- and medium-duty trucks. per gallon fuel price.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2011

President Barack Obama announced an agreement with 13 major automakers to pursue the next phase in the Administration’s national vehicle program ( earlier post ) , increasing fuel economy to a fleetwide average 54.5 Dashed lines denote that standards for MY2017-2025 reflect percentage increases in Notice of Intent.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Construction on the four-story building, nicknamed the spaceship , was completed in 2017. President Barack Obama described him as "brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it. It now can house 12,000 employees. Jobs had amazing vision.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

As the Obama Administration considers stricter fuel economy regulations, automakers are expected to lower the overall weight of vehicles by approximately 400 pounds (181 kg) per vehicle, and as aluminum use increases, the mix percent is expected to double.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the Proposed Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017 , which makes more than 75% of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources estimated in federal offshore areas available for exploration and development. 2012-2017. Alaska program areas.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative , a US $100 million research effort announced by President Barack Obama in 2013. With his colleagues at the foundation, he has worked closely with the policymakers who have made the first moves on neurorights.

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Green Cars News

MAY 30, 2009

The cost of the vehicles remains largely confidential and with fears over the viability of infrastructure, the Obama administration has knocked $132million out of a projected $200million allocation for hydrogen related projects.

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