Teslarati

APRIL 21, 2021

According to the Washington Post , Biden could announce plans to halve greenhouse gases by 2030. The plan will be set forward by monumental changes in the United States’ infrastructure, including transportation and energy, which have long been dominated by oil, coal, and other fossil fuels. However, halving the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

Growth of production of Canadian oil sands. The Canadian oil sands are now poised to become the number one source of US crude oil imports in 2010, according to new research from the IHS CERA Canadian Oil Sands Dialogue. The Role of Canadian Oil Sands in US Oil Supply”. Conventional oil uses 0.1

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 3, 2010

It’s perfectly obvious that President Obama is attempting to reach out to the right and members of Congress who are owned by the oil industry with his move this week to make offshore drilling part of his energy mix. New technologies will prevent oil spills. We won’t be reliant on foreign oil.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 23, 2010

The smartest scientists on the face of the planet, the ones studying climate change and global warming, are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it any more. A snowy winter in Washington does not alter this fact. And I’m just the guy to tell that truth whether you want to hear it or not.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

A new study on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the conversion and degradation of peatland in palm oil plantations in Southeast Asia has determined that past studies have generally significantly underestimated emissions associated with palm oil grown on peatland. Southeast Asia.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

That might change now that French robotics company Interactive Autonomous Dynamic Systems (IADYS) has introduced the Jellyfishbot. University of Washington has designed tiny sensors that mimic the shape and aerodynamic capability of the dandelion’s fuzzy, seed-bearing spores. Mark Stone/University of Washington AI on the Fusion Menu.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Among the relevant issues that would be considered are environmental concerns (including climate change), energy security, economic impacts, and foreign policy. During this time, the Department also received input from state, local, and tribal officials.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is arguably the most significant piece of climate legislation the United States has ever seen, including significant investments in clean energy and consumer incentives to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption. How the IRA will help tackle climate change.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

The study— Analysis of Policies to Reduce Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the US Transportation Sector —finds that reducing CO 2 emissions from the transportation sector 14% below 2005 levels by 2020 may require fuel prices above $8/gallon by 2020. million barrels per day, relative to 2008 levels.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2009

Worried about energy costs, oil scarcity and global warming, they favor conservation, regulation and development of alternative energy sources. The second largest cluster, the Greens, represent 24% of the public, strongly favors conservation and developing renewable energy over drilling for oil. Climate change is a lesser concern.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2015

The program will fund interdisciplinary research in six key areas: resource development; uses; environmental impacts and climate change; global markets and finance; policy and regulatory reform; and geopolitical impacts. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

House Republicans are intensifying an investigation into Solyndra ( Washington Post ). — Washington Post , 1 Sep 2011. Solar and wind projects aren’t the first to benefit from loan guarantees; Washington has been offering them to nuclear power plants for decades. To the first, the answer is a qualified yes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2010

Without strong action, those numbers are expected to keep rising, but reducing the nation’s impact on global climate change and dependence on oil imports has proved problematic. For policymakers in Washington, taking a systems view is difficult because of the politics involved. Heywood et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2012

The third win—carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) pollution and oil imports would be reduced. Oil imports remain at about today’s level, and compared to the case with no carbon tax, are 10 million barrels per day less in 2050. in support of a carbon tax in a February opinion piece in The Washington Post. and Ed Markey (Mass.)

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 7, 2009

One of the other big business groups the WSJ is talking about is the motley group of US Senators and US Congress members who got their money directly from the oil, gas and coal industry. We’re going to end the use of coal in this country in the next ten years and we’re going to phase out the use of oil for transportation.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The “cash for volts&# approach was touted Monday by the Electrification Coalition, a 13-member group that sees electric plug-ins as the answer to a host of problems, from dependence on foreign oil to tailpipe emissions that some believe is contributing to global climate change. November 16, 2009: 06:01 PM ET.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2010

The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Geneva-based Global Subsidies Initiative ( GSI ) has issued a five-part series of reports into how nations might remove fossil-fuel subsidies, on the eve of a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Washington this week. Tags: Fuels Oil Policy. This will be easier said than done.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 11, 2008

On June 11 and 12, the Brookings Institution and Google.org will host a conference entitled “ Plug-In Electric Vehicles 2008: What Role for Washington ?” Event Summary Oil prices are at record highs. Plug-in electric vehicles have the potential to significantly reduce the United States’ dependence on oil.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As the world grapples with the pressing issue of climate change, it is evident that we need swift action to avert its worst impacts. One avenue to combat this crisis is a rapid reduction in carbon emissions from our daily transportation, one of the leading contributors of CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2016

The settlement, a consent decree lodged in US District Court for the Western District of Texas, includes provisions that resolves ongoing Clean Air Act violations at refineries in Kenai, Alaska; Martinez, California; Kapolei, Hawaii; Mandan, North Dakota; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Anacortes, Washington. Of the $10.45-million

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

Leohold cited a number of drivers for the current movement to electromobility (that were largely echoed by other speakers during this first day of the symposium): Climate change and emissions; Urbanization and megacities; and. We are very much convinced that we must initiate a change. Shortage of fossil fuels.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. Western Climate Initiative (WCI). Representatives Henry A.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

This past week was certainly quite a whirlwind of EV news and developments from Volvo’s plans to end production of ICE vehicles by 2030, yet another proposal to reform the federal EV tax credit, chip shortages, Washington state’s plans to ban ICE vehicles by 2030, Lucid Air delay, Fisker to partner with Foxconn, and much, much more.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2009

Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) led off a day-long symposium on advances in CO 2 conversion and utilization being held at the 238 th American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting, which began today in Washington, DC. Tags: Catalysts Climate Change Emissions Fuels. Earlier post.).

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

Unfortunately for me and Deb, we’re living in the alternative universe where the dirty energy mafia runs things, the one where they stole the election from Al Gore and made a former oil company man the President. The more money we gave the longer the meeting was and better the food got.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 15, 2021

Originally published on RMI.org. By Christian Roselund, Ali Rotatori, Ben Holland With the promise of vaccines curtailing the spread of COVID, states and economies are beginning to open up again, and we find ourselves getting back not only the good but also some of the negative aspects of pre-pandemic life.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored the six 2015 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners at a ceremony in Washington, DC. For 2015, EPA announced a new award category for a green chemistry technology that has a “Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change.”

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

There’s a couple of different chemistry robots, one out of University of Maryland and NIST, one out of University of Washington that are in the sort of 300 to 1,000 dollars range that makes it accessible. There’s another printer out there that’s based on University of Washington’s Jubilee printer.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The mandating of any system such as this would only be about looking after the interests of ‘middlemen’: oil and gas invested companies who would invariably transition into this market as both supply and/or demand for oil recede. . Whitehead, J., & Washington, S. 2018) Where Are We Heading With Electric Vehicles?

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

Unfortunately for me and Deb, we’re living in the alternative universe where the dirty energy mafia runs things, the one where they stole the election from Al Gore and made a former oil company man the President. The more money we gave the longer the meeting was and better the food got.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. Jenkins: Energy systems became globalized in the middle of the 20th century and then encountered global supply shocks, like the oil embargoes of the ’70s. C in this century.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Air travel will be limited to extremely expensive intercontinental and military flights to conserve oil, and nuclear developments will be for military purposes only for national security. How will the pressures of climate change, limited fossil fuel resources and the mainstreaming of "green" consciousness reshape society?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Oil is the alternative. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? Alternative is no longer an alternative.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

It is also flex so that future biomass fuels such as cellulosic ethanol, methanol can be used (no oil). Also maintenance on these (no oil changes to speak of) etc will cost much less than an internal combution propelled car. Those cars will reduce oil demand at most by about 1/5th of one percent. The hell with the GMs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Washington, D.C. Electric cars are part of the electrification of the citys transit system -- along with trackless trolleys, streetcars and light rail -- helping lessen dependence on foreign oil and reduce pollution, Mayor Greg Nickels said. Our transportation system today is about 98 and a half percent based on burning fossil fuels."

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil," he says, sitting beside a massive V-16 engine on display in his office. because, even E85, we wish that would roll out a lot faster -- but, the only infrastructure thats really in place, besides oil, is electricity distribution. chief executive, said yesterday in Washington.

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