Green Car Congress
JULY 12, 2018
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that greenhouse gas emissions in California in 2016 fell below 1990 levels for the first time since emissions peaked in 2004—a reduction roughly equivalent to taking 12 million cars off the road or saving 6 billion gallons of gasoline a year. How the inventory is compiled.
Green Car Congress
MAY 14, 2013
million tonnes CO 2 ); California (369.8 tonnes of CO 2 per person), followed by North Dakota (80.4 tonnes/person) and Alaska (54.6 tonnes/person). Examining 2010 energy-related CO 2 emissions from the transportation sector, the report found California was the top transportation emitter (214.0
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 22, 2017
Between 2006 and 2015, California’s GDP per capita grew by almost $5,000 per person, nearly double the growth experienced by the US as a whole. Job growth between 2006 and 2015 in California outpaced rates experienced prior to 2006, and outpaced total US employment gains by 27%. Commute times in California increased 2.8%
Baua Electric
MAY 21, 2024
Photo courtesy of Tom Brewster/BLM California US renewables’ electrical generating capacity could be close to – and may even surpass – natural gas within three years, according to FERC data. That would be greater than either coal (13.36%) or wind (12.77%) and nearly double that of either nuclear power (7.56%) or hydropower (7.40%).
Cars That Think
JANUARY 28, 2023
There are two major reasons for this: first, EVs are not going to reach the numbers required by 2050 to hit their needed contribution to net zero goals , and even if they did, a host of other personal, social and economic activities must be modified to reach the total net zero mark. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.
Creative Greenius
OCTOBER 18, 2013
But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. Let’s cut our greenhouse gas emissions as we promised we would do when we made the Cool Cities pledge and as our California state law, the Global Warming Solutions Act says we must and as our survival instincts should drive us to do.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 29, 2013
In a state-by-state analysis, the researchers found that California suffers the worst health impacts from air pollution, with about 21,000 early deaths annually, mostly attributed to road transportation and to commercial and residential emissions from heating and cooking. 41,000 (90% CI: 18,000–74,000) early deaths from PM 2.5
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