Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2018

Under Assembly Bill 32 passed in 2006, California must reduce its emissions to 1990 levels (431 million metric tons) by 2020. The state’s latest Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory shows that California emitted 429 million metric tons of climate pollutants in 2016—a drop of 12 million metric tons, or three percent, from 2015.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The collapse in world oil prices in the second half of 2014 will have only a moderate impact on the fast-developing low-carbon transition in the world electricity system, according to research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance. However, the slump in the Brent crude price per barrel from $112.36 on 30 June to $61.60

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2011

Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard unveiled Australia’s carbon pricing plan—a core element in a new clean energy plan—in a short address to the nation. The Government intends to introduce legislation to underpin the carbon pricing mechanism into Parliament in the second half of 2011. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Investment slumped by 30% in 2020. Insufficient upstream investment could result in more price volatility and spur adverse economic consequences, such as wider energy poverty, more frequent scarcity and fuel switching to more polluting energy sources such as wood and coal, the report found.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

per year on average during the 2005-2020 period to 2.3-2.8% per year on average between 2020 and 2025. The Administration expects that China will succeed in peaking its emissions before 2030 based on its broad economic reform program, plans to address air pollution, and implementation of President Xi’s call for an energy revolution.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Battery electric cars emit less greenhouse gases and air pollutants over their entire life cycle than petrol and diesel cars, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report. In future, with greater use of lower carbon electricity in the European mix the typical GHG emissions saving of BEVs relative to ICEVs will increase.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 5, 2011

My favorite part of this next CicLaVia is t he Bike Parade coming from my friends at Greenpeace and Sierra Club which they’re calling ROLL AGAINST COAL. In case you didn’t know, the City of Los Angeles still gets 40% of its electricity from coal-fired power plants, the dirtiest polluters and greenhouse gassers on the planet.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

Specifically, the EPA is proposing state-specific rate-based goals for carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector, as well as emission guidelines for states to use in developing plans to attain the state-specific goals. Cutting particle pollution, nitrogen NO x , and SO x by more than 25% as a co-benefit.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

The findings suggest that in addition to carbon dioxide, there are other compounds in need of attention and regulation. There are no factories or farms, and planes are thought to make up most of the pollutants in this area. After learning about the former study, Mingyi Wang, a Ph.D. The emission sources are limited up there.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2014

The strategy builds on progress to date and takes steps to further cut methane emissions from landfills, coal mining, and agriculture, and oil and gas systems. However, methane pollution is projected to increase to a level equivalent to over 620 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution in 2030 absent additional action to reduce emissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Even if the current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are fully implemented, the carbon budget for limiting global warming to below 2 ˚C will be about 80% depleted by 2030. Given currently available carbon budget estimates, the available global carbon budget for 1.5 ˚C C will already be well depleted by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

The US National Academy of Sciences estimates that fossil fuel subsidies cost the United States $120 billion in pollution and related health care costs every year. According to projections by the International Energy Agency (IEA), if fossil fuel subsidies were phased out by 2020, global energy consumption would be reduced by 3.9%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2012

Although emissions vary by plant and with the specific type of fuel, EPA provided illustrative examples of CO 2 emissions from EGUs: Conventional coal: 1,800 lbs CO 2 /MWh. Coal with carbon capture and storage (CCS): 200 lbs CO 2 /MWh. A company could build a coal?fired Natural Gas Combined Cycle: 820 lbs CO 2 /MWh.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Plastics are on track to contribute more greenhouse gas emissions than coal plants in the US by 2030, according to new report by Beyond Plastics, a nationwide project based at Bennington College in Vermont. These 35 cracker facilities release as much GHG as 35 coal-fired power plants. million tons of GHG each year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) adopted by a vote of four to three greenhouse gas reduction regulations—called the most stringent in the US—that will reduce global warming pollutants through a regional cap on greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The new goal is that efficiency standards for appliances and federal buildings set in the first and second terms combined will reduce carbon pollution by at least 3 billion metric tons cumulatively by 2030—equivalent to nearly one-half of the CO 2 emissions from the entire US energy sector for one year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Among the direct transportation-related provisions in the extensive package are a low-carbon fuel standard for all transportation fuels; financial support for large scale demonstrations of electric vehicles; and financial support for automakers retooling plants to make electric vehicles. Carbon Capture and Sequestration.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

If a 2020 conventional vehicle fleet efficiency target of 35 mpg (6.7 L/100km) is compared to the 2020 CD (charge depleting) efficiency, net CO 2. When compared to 2020 CAFE standards (6.7 PJM shows nearly the opposite result with smart charging having significantly lower reductions in CO 2 emissions (relying on 98% coal).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2014

Through a collaboration agreement, the two parties have agreed to work together to develop solutions which can help tackle the city’s air pollution challenges. However, the resulting environmental impact, particularly air pollution, has become a priority for the Chinese government and a matter of global importance.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Because quickly rising natural gas production outpaces domestic consumption, the United States will become a net exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2016 and a net exporter of total natural gas (including via pipelines) in 2020. efficiency and the shift to a less carbon-intensive fuel mix. Biomass and biofuels growth is slower.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2015

The 2030 target is in alignment with the Administration’s earlier economy-wide emissions targets, including the goal of reducing emissions to 17% below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025. Under the Clean Power Plan, by 2030, renewables will account for 28% of national capacity, up from 22% in the proposed rule.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

The American Power Act, released as a discussion draft, targets reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 4.75% compared to 2005 levels by 2013; by at least 17% compared to 2005 levels by 2020; by at least 42% compared to 2005 levels by 2030; and by at least 83% compared to 2005 levels by 2050. compared to 2005 levels.).

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Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2022

per capita carbon dioxide emissions , according to a 2020 European Union report. While electricity from older coal plants in India costs 2.7 cents from newer plants that have additional pollution-control equipment, the cost of solar energy has dropped to 2.7 The question is how much any one country should do.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

ºF) above pre-industrial levels to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, and that global GHG emissions would have to peak around 2020 and then sharply decline by 50% to 85% by the year 2050. Emissions from ocean-going ships which burn minimally refined bunker fuel are primary sources of black carbon.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 3, 2009

“Pack Up Your Toxic, Fossil Fuel Factory With Its Climate-Changing Products & Get Out of Town By 2020!&# Consider this fair and legal warning, world’s largest and most polluting oil company - I’m giving you 10 years to pack up and hit the road. Greenius Rules. I’m thinking not so much. Uncertainty.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Industrialised countries such as the US and the UK currently emit by far the most carbon per person, with emissions from the likes of China and India also rising sharply, although these are generally accepted because of these countries’ need for economic growth. What about carbon credits and deforestation?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2021

Climate pledges by governments to date—even if fully achieved—would fall well short of what is required to bring global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050 and give the world an even chance of limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 °C, Together, this is four times the record level set in 2020.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 13, 2023

” _ Elon Musk “Electric cars aren’t pollution free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.” And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we’ll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it’s just nonsense.” Fort and Tesla.”

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2014

This will play a significant role in accelerating the structural adjustment of China’s energy industry, relieving pressure on natural gas supply from central and eastern China, and promoting energy conservation and emission reduction, as well as air pollution control, the company added. Bcfd by 2020. trillion cubic meters.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 8, 2022

That said, as of 2020, no vehicles had made use of it. the transportation sector is the single biggest emitter of carbon, creating around 27% of emissions. is also the second-biggest carbon emitter in the world. 2021 saw a handful of vehicles, including the Rivian , begin to implement it, but that’s just a start. In the U.S.,

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 28, 2021

trillion worth of subsidies granted for the production and burning of coal, oil, and gas in 2020. . Interestingly enough, among the Cop26’s goal is to agree on rules for carbon markets, which would enable the appropriate pricing for pollution, as per a report from The Guardian. That’s a whopping $5.9

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

The researchers, involving scientists from Germany, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, concluded that the limit is 1,000 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide between the years 2000 and 2050. In practice, substantial reductions in global emissions have to begin soon, before 2020. Meinshausen et al. 2009) Click to enlarge. Meinshausen, N.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. Unfortunately, between 2010 and 2020, only 18,000 miles of new transmission lines were added to the US grid. Issues like auto safety and pollution were the chief concerns.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? the biggest cuts anywhere in the world. Well and good.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The objections they raised for years -- "no one is interested, no one would plug in, the technology is too complex, the benefits are minimal, its just shifting the pollution from the tailpipe to the smokestack, theres no demand for these cars" -- still show up occasionally, but are by and large history. Kwong asked.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 19, 2024

The Georgia Public Service Commission just this week approved utility Georgia Power’s plan to build three new methane and oil-burning plants, as well as to buy energy from sister company Mississippi power, delaying retirement of one of that company’s coal-fired plants, according to the Southern Environmental Law Center.

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