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EIA: US renewable diesel capacity could more than double through 2025

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EIA said that two factors behind growing US renewable diesel capacity are rising targets for state and federal renewable fuel programs and biomass-based diesel tax credits. The “Inflation Reduction Act” extended the biomass-based diesel tax credits through 2024.

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Rhode Island’s DRIVE EV program encourages sustainable transport

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Why Tesla Model Y tax credit inclusion is good for some and bad for others Used EVs are also a part of the program but offer smaller rebates. The rebates can be stacked with the federal EV tax credits, which can offer as much as $7,500 off of qualifying EVs.

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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

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On a planet aspiring to become carbon neutral, the once-stalwart coal power plant is an emerging anachronism. That plant, situated in the coal mining town of Colstrip, currently faces its imminent end as nearby Oregon and Washington plan to ban coal power by 2025. coal plants are planned to shutter by 2035.

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Ford reportedly eliminates lease-to-buy option on electric vehicles

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Ford said in its letter that the goal is primarily focused on alleviating additional carbon emissions. “The purchase of the BEV Lease is to aid in our goal of delivering carbon neutrality by 2050 by controlling the vehicle battery through its life, keeping it in the Ford network.”

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Lung Association report highlights health and climate costs of petroleum-based transportation and the benefits of shifting to ZEVs

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In addition to California, the ZEV states are Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont. Oregon: $1.3 A separate analysis using the social cost of carbon estimated the annual climate benefits from the transition to cleaner vehicles through 2050. New Jersey: $4.6

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ICCT study finds state EV incentives playing a significant role in driving sales

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California, Georgia, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington—have electric vehicle sales shares that are approximately 2–4 times the national average. While the federal tax credit of $7,500 per vehicle may be thought to be the major factor in consumer decision making in the U.S.,

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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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. And Oregon is pretty transparent. But those models were entirely proprietary.

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