Plug in America

MAY 13, 2022

These standards are created by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), but have since also been adopted by 17 other states, including Nevada, Oregon, Virginia and, most recently, New Mexico. This next set of standards, Advanced Clean Cars II, comes at a crucial moment to boost the electric vehicle industry and address climate change.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2011

When I quit the Democratic party last summer the last straw for me was their total FAIL to take a stand and do anything about climate change. Politico reported yesterday morning th at two senior House Democrats are on board for the crazy ass introduction of legislation to stop the EPA’s climate change regulations.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). The researchers included a sixth pollutant, ammonia (NH 3 ).

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Gasoline Emissions Gasoline-Electric Pollution 236

Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2011

When I quit the Democratic party last summer the last straw for me was their total FAIL to take a stand and do anything about climate change. Politico reported yesterday morning th at two senior House Democrats are on board for the crazy ass introduction of legislation to stop the EPA’s climate change regulations.

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Climate Change West Virginia Climate Minnesota 150

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

A specific challenge would-be-conversions must face is that the NRC’s standards—both for atmospheric pollution and for the amount of radiological material a reactor can release—are much tighter than federal standards for coal plants. In West Virginia, once coal’s citadel, the state government eliminated its old ban on nuclear power plants.

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Coal Convert Power Powered 144

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. INTRODUCTION. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 18, 2022

However, Lee Vinsel , a Virginia Polytechnic Institute technology historian and expert on how regulatory policy has improved auto safety and lowered pollution warns, “Policy reflected in EVs must be crafted to reduce the risks to hundreds of millions of individuals that feel they’re not giving anything up.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2009

The gas is first cooled to condense and remove moisture and residual pollutants before it enters the CO 2 absorber. As the next step in demonstrations of increasing size, the first of two product validation facilities recently began at the American Electric Power (AEP) Mountaineer Plant in New Haven, West Virginia.

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EPRI CO2 Coal Carbon 223

Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

Reed Saxon/AP This highlights something that seems to be a critical weakness in EV policy making, says Lee Vinsel , a Virginia Polytechnic Institute technology historian, and expert on how regulatory policy has improved auto safety and lowered pollution. Issues like auto safety and pollution were the chief concerns.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

Call it Peak ICE—the last hurrah of a technology that governments are ushering off the stage to combat climate change. That front-drive mode gets the car a green light in cities like London and Rome as they begin to bar polluting cars from their downtown areas.

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Plug-in Ferrari Engine Hybrid 91

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

Low-input cultivation of perennial plants, e.g. from short-rotation forestry and grasslands, may be an effective source of cellulosic biomass and provide environmental benefits (reduced pollution and lower greenhouse gas emissions). Bringezu (eds) Biofuels: Environmental Consequences and Interactions with Changing Land Use.

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