Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

The studies use case studies to demonstrate the co-benefits of tackling climate change in four sectors: electricity generation, household energy use, transportation, and food and agriculture. Climate change threatens us all, but its impact will likely be greatest on the poorest communities in every country.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For example, in 2021 residents of California welcomed the United state’s first electric fire truck. EVS: How They Are Helping Us In developed countries like the US, transportation is the main cause of climate pollution. fine particulate matter pollution). fine particulate matter pollution).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

SunLine Transit Agency in California has awarded New Flyer of America—the US subsidiary of New Flyer Industries—with a contract for five Xcelsior fuel cell-electric forty-foot, heavy-duty transit buses. million passengers per year. The NFI Group has over 50 years of experience in manufacturing zero-emission buses (ZEBs).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2009

By 2055, wildfires in the western United States could scorch about 50% more land than they do now, causing a sharp decline in the region’s air quality, according to a new study by atmospheric researchers at Harvard. The increase is due mainly to the simulated rise in wildfire frequency in the future, warmer climate. Mickley, J.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2017

The San Jose area had the highest share at 10%, followed by other California areas (4% to 6%) and markets in Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington (2% to 4%). Overall, the share of new vehicles that are plug-in electric in these 50 areas is 1.2%, about 3 times the proportion in the rest of the United States.

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Plug in America

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The existential threat of climate change is finally getting the federal attention it requires. On January 27, President Biden issued a wide-ranging executive order that declared an all-of-government approach to fighting climate change, integrating it into actions across every agency and taking back global leadership.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Although most countries have already revealed their opening emissions reduction proposals, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer pointed out Thursday that “ we still await clarity from industrialized nations on the provision of large-scale finance to developing countries for immediate and long-term climate action. by Jack Rosebro.

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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

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In the United States, coal’s share of electricity generation has plummeted since its early 2000s peak; 28 percent of U.S. DOE analysts screened 349 retired and 273 still-operating coal-plant sites across the United States. It is true that, in much of the developing world, coal-fired capacity continues to grow.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In an open-access report in the journal Environmental Pollution , researchers from UCLA and the University of Chicago estimate that California’s wildfire carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e) emissions from 2020 (~127 mmt CO 2 e ) are approximately two times higher than California’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions since 2003.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2016

In a first attempt to gauge the scope of the United States’ high-efficiency technology supplier sector for heavy-duty trucks and buses, CALSTART conducted an initial scan of businesses and identified and mapped 255 companies. Click to enlarge. The white paper’s mapping function also shows clusters of activity.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy-duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University. Environmental considerations.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 13, 2021

After moving from the East Coast to teach at the University of California, it became pertinent for the 38-year old engineer and scientist to have his own driver’s license again. It is no stretch to state that California is the heart of the US’ electric vehicle transition. He drove a Tesla. Driving Tests from Hell.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

With President Obama and the rest of the leaders of the world’s biggest polluting nations kicking the ball down the field on climate change and effectively pulling the rug out from under all of us who have been targeting the Copenhagen climate talks as the moment we must seize, our response must recognize the obvious.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

By Shelby Parks Transportation pollution affects hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. each year and is the highest source of climate pollution in the United States.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2009

I contributed the following to the World Wildlife Climate Witness site last week and it was published this morning. I took the photos that now illustrate it here on my blog within the last hour: My name is Joe Galliani, I’m 52 years old and I’ve lived in Southern California for 33 years. (c)

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The South Bay is defined by the LAX Airport to the north and the Port of Los Angeles to the south - two of the biggest polluters in Southern California. Just one solitary person tasked with coordinating the entire regions’ emissions inventory and helping each city create its climate action plan to reduce its carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2009

They applied the global climate model ECHAM5/MESSy1-MADE to geospatial emissions inventories to determine worldwide concentrations of particular matter (PM 2.5 ) from oceangoing vessels. Climate change, acidification, visibility, eutrophication, and other environmental effects are closely related to the type of fuel used in ships.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 7, 2009

What it should have said is: “Polluters & Global Warmers Caught In The Act and Stopped – New Clean, Green, Sustainable Economy Begins Booming!&#. They went “all in&# with the fossil fuel industry and are one of the most shameless carbon collaborators in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2018

Californians for Zero Emission Vehicles (CalZEV), a coalition of public health, environmental and electric vehicle industry organizations, announced its strong support for the Innovative Clean Transit (ICT) measure currently before the California Air Resources Board (CARB). —Adrian Martinez, staff attorney at Earthjustice.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2016

California agency leaders released the Draft California Sustainable Freight Action Plan , an ambitious document that lays a foundation for modernizing California’s multi-billion dollar freight transportation system. Benefits include meeting the state’s freight infrastructure, public health, air quality and climate goals.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2016

The State of California is awarding $23.6 Demonstration trucks and charging infrastructure will be used in all five air districts, providing emission reduction benefits in key areas of California with drayage truck activity. The California Sustainable Freight Action Plan to support that transition was made public Tuesday.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2009

The major climate and energy bill introduced last week by House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Henry Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Edward Markey— H.R. The bill also calls for the harmonization of Federal and California motor vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

Saturday, January 17, 2009, Santa Monica, California - Inaugural Parade West. Since 1999, Ed has been Director of the Electric Transportation Division at Southern California Edison. Another of my favorite people on the Southern California environmental scene is State Senator Fran Pavley who also spoke at the press conference.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

The main obstacles will be regulatory and, especially, environmental: Supersonic airliners could be hugely more polluting than their subsonic counterparts. Although the United States chose not to participate in the development of the Concorde, in 1963 President John F. Kennedy announced plans to develop a U.S.

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Plug in America

MARCH 22, 2024

These rules set progressively lower limits on tailpipe pollution on vehicles manufactured between 2027 and 2032. In fact, to address smog and pollution in many U.S. In fact, to address smog and pollution in many U.S. EPA has been regulating vehicle pollution for over 50 years. EPA standards aren’t new. Doing so is deadly.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 24, 2022

California is expected to become the first state in the U.S. to ban the sale of new gasoline cars by 2035, requiring all new cars sold in the state after that year to be 100 percent free of fossil fuel emissions. Additionally, interim targets for the California ban on ICE vehicles have also been set.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

EVs will/will not create more pollution than they eliminate. Scaling is hard Let me be very clear: Transitioning to electric vehicles and renewable energy to combat climate change are valid goals in themselves. For example, in January 2023 the sales of EVs in the United States reached 7.83 Join the crowd.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 4, 2024

Over two years after announcing plans to develop and build an electric fire truck for the Mesa fire department, E-ONE has delivered the emergency EV , and it has begun operations in Arizona – the first of its kind in the state and one of the first in all of the United States. E-ONE, Inc.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 17, 2009

But surprisingly, a subject Elizabeth didn’t know a lot about is Tonga’s frontline role as a victim of the climate change crisis. Today all 3000 inhabitants of the Carteret Islands have been relocated as they become the first climate change refugees. They were “placed.&#. Mine too of course.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The United States and California state averages shown are based on total on- and off-road use. The urban areas in California shown are for on-road fuel use only. Organic aerosol (OA) in the atmosphere is detrimental to human health and represents a highly uncertain forcing of climate change. Gentner et al.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. First off you might be surprised that our cities have Climate Action Plans, but don’t be.

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 1, 2022

President Joe Biden has issued a series of decrees with climate change at the center of his work, including allocating $7.5 billion for electric vehicle charging infrastructure, with the goal of installing it across the United States by 2030. Since taking office in January 2021, U.S. 500,000 public charging piles.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

We would like to take this opportunity to report on our efforts to demonstrate to automakers that a market for plug-in hybrid vehicles exists in the United States today. Additionally, other local governments and state agencies are joining the coalition. but it has grown far beyond this point.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

The public backlash over the proposed transmission line across Maine and the recently canceled California Colusa-Sutter Transmission Line Project illustrate the contentious issues involved. Currently, permitting takes up to ten years in the United States. Issues like auto safety and pollution were the chief concerns.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

The thousands of rocket launches needed to loft and maintain these space power stations would dump lots of soot, carbon dioxide, and other pollutants into the stratosphere, with uncertain climate impacts. These rectennas would then convert the signal to usable DC electricity. But the contract and promises went unfulfilled.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The Administration is undertaking multiple actions to place the United States on what it calls an “ irreversible path ” to achieve a 50-52 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from a 2005 baseline, and then to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. economy away from fossil fuels. Where is the charging infrastructure?

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