Alaska, Pollution and United States

As states use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2020

This brief study analyses, for each individual state, the changes from 2008 to 2018 in the use of coal (one of the two most polluting energy sources) to generate electricity. Oil is used relatively infrequently in the United States as an energy source for electricity.

Coal

Coal Cleaner Electric Vehicles Alaska

As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This brief study analyzes, for each individual state, the changes from 2018 to 2020 in the use of coal (one of the two most polluting energy sources) to generate electricity. Oil is used relatively infrequently in the United States as an energy source for electricity.

Coal

Coal West Virginia North Dakota Cleaner

EPA proposes new rulemaking for sharp cuts in methane emissions from oil and gas industry

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In the United States, the oil and natural gas industry is the largest industrial source of methane emissions, emitting more methane than the total emissions of all greenhouse gases from 164 countries combined. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps about 30 times as much heat as carbon dioxide over 100 years.

EPA

EPA Oil Gas Emissions

USC study shows promising potential for giant-kelp-based biofuel with depth-cycling approach

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

The National Research Council has indicated that generating biofuels from feedstocks such as corn and soybeans can increase water pollution. Farmers use pesticides and fertilizers on the crops that can end up polluting streams, rivers and lakes. One Utah would take up only 0.13% of the total Pacific Ocean. Ginsburg, Jessica M.

Mariner

Mariner Water Utah California

Gas War: 25 States Sue EPA Over Updated Emissions Regulations

The Truth About Cars

APRIL 30, 2024

Grievances include claims that the executive branch is unconstitutionally manipulating the marketplace by setting requirements higher than manufacturers can adhere to, effectively mandating sales of electric vehicles that have been broadly unpopular in the United States. Swelling vehicle prices was another issue.&

EPA

EPA Emissions West Virginia Gas

Six refineries in $425M settlement with EPA and DOJ over emissions violations

Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2016

and Par Hawaii Refining that resolves alleged Clean Air Act violations and protects public health by reducing air pollution at six refineries. million civil penalty that Tesoro will pay, the United States will receive $8,050,000, and co-plaintiffs including the states of Alaska and Hawaii, and the Northwest Clean Air Agency will share $2.4

Emissions

Emissions EPA Pollution Hawaii

How to Take Advantage of EV Charging Incentives for Fleets

Blink Charging

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Between the United States federal government, state, and local governments; power companies and utilities; and air pollution control districts, there are hundreds of incentives for fleet owners to switch from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs). Where is Blink a verified supplier?

Fleet

Fleet Tax Credit Charging Tax

Port of Houston Authority, Maersk Line and EPA Demonstrate Fuel Switching in the Gulf of Mexico

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

EPA estimates that fuel switching will result in reducing local air pollution and its burden on public health by producing more than a 95% reduction in sulfur dioxide (SOx) and an 85 percent reduction in fine particulate matter (PM). Earlier post.) percent sulfur marine fuels (fuel with sulfur content at or below 1,000 ppm) as of 2015.

Houston

Houston Mexico EPA Fuel

Study finds changes in the Arctic sea ice cover may be driving changes in atmospheric chemistry

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2012

Bromine then reacts with a gaseous form of mercury, turning it into a pollutant that falls to Earth’s surface. Despite ozone’s beneficial role blocking harmful radiation in the stratosphere, ground-level ozone is a harmful pollutant. Bromine also can remove ozone from the lowest layer of the atmosphere, the troposphere.

Mercury

Mercury Ozone United Kingdom 2008

Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

Cars That Think

JUNE 29, 2022

As an example, he noted the United States was in the process of developing new satellites to survey Earth’s natural resources. Ground stations in California and Alaska received the data and then sent the tapes to the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland for processing. MSS was clearly the winning technology.

Power

Power Powered United States Fort Worth

US Global Change Research Program Issues Report on Impacts of Climate Change in US; Details Point to Potential Value of Early, Aggressive Action

Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2009

Climate change is already having visible impacts in the United States, and the choices we make now will determine the severity of its impacts in the future, according to the final release of the report “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States”. Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Global United States

Does the US Senate Have The Balls To Stand Up For Your Children? Not Without YOU Forcing Them To

Creative Greenius

JANUARY 30, 2010

But if you care about our children and our childrens’ children, then do not count on the members of today’s United States Senate to do the ethical, moral or honest thing when it comes to global warming because they will not.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Climate Climate Change Alaska

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. CURRENT REGIONAL CAP-AND-TRADE PROGRAMS.

Gas

Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

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As states use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

EPA proposes new rulemaking for sharp cuts in methane emissions from oil and gas industry

USC study shows promising potential for giant-kelp-based biofuel with depth-cycling approach

Gas War: 25 States Sue EPA Over Updated Emissions Regulations

Six refineries in $425M settlement with EPA and DOJ over emissions violations

How to Take Advantage of EV Charging Incentives for Fleets

Port of Houston Authority, Maersk Line and EPA Demonstrate Fuel Switching in the Gulf of Mexico

Study finds changes in the Arctic sea ice cover may be driving changes in atmospheric chemistry

Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

US Global Change Research Program Issues Report on Impacts of Climate Change in US; Details Point to Potential Value of Early, Aggressive Action

Does the US Senate Have The Balls To Stand Up For Your Children? Not Without YOU Forcing Them To

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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