Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Just four months ago, in October, the UN’s IPCC Climate Report gave us, at best, 12 years to take bold and drastic action in cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions if we want to limit the level of already baked-in climate catastrophe. In 2019 alone more easy-to-connect climate crisis dots have made worldwide news: .

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2020

This puts the US on track to meet its annual goals for GHG reduction under the Paris Climate Accord. If traffic remained reduced for one year, the reduction in VMT would allow California to meet half of its 2050 climate change target. New York carried the highest rate of cases during the reporting period.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Jersey City in New Jersey has started taking delivery of its five battery-electric refuse trucks, BYD recently announced. The company noted that this is the first deployment of battery-electric refuse trucks in the state and will be the largest deployment of these trucks in the US to date.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and the Chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, today signed a new cooperation agreement to advance cleaner vehicles and fuels. Combined, these states and California constitute more than 40% of the US passenger vehicle market.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2010

In the 50-state assessment, no state received a higher grade than “B-,” and most states scored lower than “D,” demonstrating a lack of alignment between transportation and climate policies, according to the analysis. Getting Back on Track: Aligning State Transportation Policy with Climate Change Goals.

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Plug in America

MARCH 13, 2023

Eliminating vehicle emissions results in improved air quality, which means better health outcomes and a slowing of climate change. Here are some of our staff’s favorite valentines, including one from Percy, our team’s new favorite pup.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 31, 2014

But I am 56 years old and I was born in Brooklyn and grew up in New Jersey. Let the f **s apologize for a change. They’re also climate change deniers and don’t have a single union executive smart enough to understand the climate science or know what science tells us is coming. With no apologies.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 11, 2015

And then there is the issue of climate justice which motivates me more than any amount of money ever could. And because my parents cared more about eduction for their children than almost everything else, they moved us from our apartment in Brooklyn in 1968 when I was 11 to bucolic Westfield, New Jersey. .

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Increases in carbon dioxide concentration along with global surface temperatures are showing a decline in agricultural yields due to climate change. [ 1 ] This along with melting glaciers and shifts in climate zones do not bode well for climate change stabilization without drastic efforts in greenhouse gas abatement.

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Here’s the version I remember hearing in New Jersey: A man goes on vacation and his brother agrees to housesit for him — feeding the cat, picking up the newspapers and mail, watering the plants, etc. Concluding that climate change will have wide-ranging impacts on U.S. Wednesday, June 25, 2008. ” “What!?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Signing the Memorandum of Understanding were the Governors from Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Fuels Policy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2021

Drilling down into data from targeted regions, they also uncovered a 30-year trend of increasing salinity in places such as the Passaic River in northern New Jersey and a 100-mile-plus stretch of the Potomac River that supplies drinking water to Washington, D.C.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2009

Halcrow, a specialist in the provision of planning, design and management services for infrastructure development, has presented a conceptual design for an outer harbor gateway to protect the New York and New Jersey metropolitan areas from severe coastal flooding resulting from storm surges, along with rising sea-levels due to climate change.

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Plug in America

APRIL 30, 2021

This past week, 12 governors (California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington) followed our lead. If you live in any of these states, you might consider sending a nice thank you note to your governor.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 15, 2009

In the 15 months that have passed since I wrote the following, ALL the climate change news has gone from bad, to worse, to much worse than that. For the past three months I’ve been working night and day as the Chairman of the South Bay Los Angeles 350 Climate Action Group. The truth is George W. “What!?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. As Senators Graham, Kerry and Lieberman try to resuscitate the climate change bill by introducing a revised bill in mid-to-late April, twenty-three U.S. Western Climate Initiative (WCI). Overview of RGGI.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

On the state level, no fewer than 12 —California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont—all have their own conditions restricting new nuclear construction.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2009

Thirteen other states have adopted California’s Clean Car standards: Arizona, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 15, 2009

Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, I read the New York Daily News after my parents were done reading it. When a threat is as catastrophic and imminent as global climate change is then newspapers have the responsibility to fulfill their Paul Revere role and proclaim loud and wide that “The British are coming!

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Driivz

JULY 2, 2023

Electrification of medium- and heavy-duty (MHD) vehicles is an important component of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and mitigating climate change. However, that is likely to change. Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont are adopting the same rules.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In addition, although many experts say that the solution to our energy and climate problems is sending the correct price signals to industry and consumers, the transport sector’s behavior is highly inelastic in that it does not change significantly in response to changes in fuel prices, at least in the range that is politically acceptable.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

In 2013, Rossi Honda in Vineland, New Jersey, became the first electric grid-neutral new automobile dealer in America, producing more energy from on-site solar panels than it takes from the public utility grid.​ million dollars. Source: Honda North America.

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