Green Car Reports

JANUARY 26, 2018

One of the world's largest oil producers is about to enter a tit-for-tat battle over climate change with government officials from multiple states.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In the Principles, launched one day ahead of the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, banks commit to align their business strategically with the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Goals, and scale up their contribution to the achievement of both.

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Green Energy Consumers

JULY 7, 2023

Rhode Island has committed to combating climate change by adopting one of the strongest climate policies in the nation: An Act on Climate , committing the state to 45% emissions reduction by 2030 and net zero by 2050. While Rhode Island is at the forefront of aggressive climate policy, it is not alone.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 4, 2017

While parts of the federal government focus on sustaining fossil-fuel energy, numerous states are enacting new policies and programs to boost electric cars. California tends to steal most headlines about electric vehicles and climate-change policy, but two other U.S. New York and New Jersey.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2022

New York Governor Kathy Hochul directed the State Department of Environmental Conservation to take major regulatory action that will require all new passenger cars, pickup trucks, and SUVs sold in New York State to be zero emissions by 2035. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

response to climate change. The temperatures of large inland water bodies are good indicators of climate change and have been used for climate change studies. Our analysis provides a new, independent data source for assessing the impact of climate change over land around the world.

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Electrek

AUGUST 15, 2023

Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York have officially confirmed that July 2023 held the hottest global temperature ever in recorded history. more… The post NASA says July 2023 was the hottest month ever; here’s why appeared first on Electrek.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 6, 2023

The Electric Utility is “Enhancing” a Successful Managed Charging Program By Excluding its Primary Advocates Like many major cities, New York City has set forth aggressive goals for encouraging EV adoption in order to improve air quality and mitigate the widescale damage of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

There are now more than 29,000 electric vehicles registered in New York City and Westchester, including 1,262 added in February, the most recent month for which data are available, according to Con Edison, the electricity, gas and steam utility for New York CIty and Westchester County, NY. Curbside Charging.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The governors of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and the mayor of the District of Columbia announced that theirs will be the first jurisdictions to launch a new multi-state program that the principals expect will invest some $300 million per year in cleaner transportation choices.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) will invest $1 billion over the next ten years to develop and to accelerate the commercial deployment of innovative low-emissions technologies. OGCI Climate Investments (OGCI CI) will aim to deploy successfully-developed new technologies among member companies and beyond.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

One view advanced in some studies attempting to model future climate is that cleaning up fossil-fuel air pollution rapidly will unintentionally lead to a near-term rise in atmospheric warming of about a half-degree Celsius, which might take up to a century to reverse. —Christopher Smith. Drew Shindell and Christopher J.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The report, Clean Air Future: Health and Climate Benefits of Zero Emission Vehicles , was produced by the American Lung Association in California. Under this report’s “ZEV Future” scenario, 100% of the new car sales and approximately 65% of all cars on the road are assumed to be ZEVs by 2050 in the 10 ZEV States. New York: $7.9

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the world’s transport ministers meeting at the International Transport Forum 2015to accelerate efforts to combat climate change and “ find new green solutions ”. In New York, world leaders will define a post-2015 development agenda.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 20, 2019

Climate scientists have issued frequent warning about the effects of rising sea levels from global warming on cities such as Miami and New York. that may suffer the effects of climate change could be Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, according to a 2017 report by the Hawaii Climate Commission report, which showed.

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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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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Uber is adding more polluting car trips to already-clogged European cities such as London and Paris, new analysis by European NGOs suggests —contributing to air pollution and climate change and exploding the company’s sustainability claims. —Yoann Le Petit, new mobility expert with T&E.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 6, 2023

“It shows here our shared commitment to making Baltimore a leader as a climate-conscious and sustainable government,” Scott said during remarks after he signed the bill, according to WBAL. “We Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott signed a bill on Monday that ensures the city’s fleet of government vehicles will be all-electric by 2030.

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Teslarati

JUNE 23, 2021

The New York Taxi and Limousine Commission’s (TLC) efforts to block the deployment of 50 Tesla Model Y taxis from electric transit startup Revel were successful. The decision was finalized in a meeting on Tuesday, where the NY TLC voted to stop issuing new for-hire licenses for electric cars. .

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The study was led by University of Delaware’s James Corbett, and included an international team of researchers from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in New York and Energy and Environmental Research Associates. pollution impacts in 2020 with and without the use of low-sulphur fuels.

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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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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2009

Before this study, we didn’t know how fast that carbon could potentially be released from permafrost, and how this feedback to climate would change over time. An understanding of the rate of carbon release is necessary to estimate the strength of positive feedback to climate change, a likely consequence of permafrost thaw.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

As part of his 2013 State of the City address, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg outlined plans for a major increase in parking and charging options for electric vehicles. All of these transportation initiatives will help us achieve one of PlaNYC’s top goals: giving New York the cleanest air of any big city in the country.

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Electric Auto Association

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Endless studies on the impact of pollution and climate change on low-income families have all come up with the same general result: It is a very real and very serious problem. It should also be noted that those in poverty have a higher chance of experiencing the ill-effects of climate change.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The funding round will be used by Revel to expand its network of EV fast-charging Superhubs in New York City and other urban centers, the company said. This will create the needed infrastructure for large-scale EV adoption, helping large cities like New York meet emissions reductions goals.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2012

Circle areas are proportional to values for (A and B) climate change, (C and D) human health (values for population over age 30), and (E and F) agriculture. Their potential climate impact was assessed by using published global warming potential (GWP) values for each pollutant affected. Source: Shindell et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2021

New York in US, Tokyo in Japan). China will reach carbon emission peak before 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, and large cities with a significant greening trend play an important role in neutralizing carbon emission and mitigating the impact of global climate change in urban areas.

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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 Reports

MARCH 31, 2018

Which plug-in hybrid concepts and production electric cars debuted at the New York auto show? What words were EPA staff told to use to sow doubt about climate change and its effects? Friday, we covered a new study.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 24, 2014

I was born in New York and lived there when the late, great Shirley Chisholm was in office and became one of the first women to run for President. Bradford’s right there with the old Vietnam strategy of destroying the village in order to save it. My whole family greatly admired Chisholm and my mother was a big supporter.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 21, 2024

You will soon see arguments from certain anti-EV types that new rule is an EV mandate. Perhaps the government's claims about the environmental impact are too optimistic and complying with the new rule won't be effective in the fight against man-made climate change. I want to focus on one particular egregious lie.

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2024

What the final economic impact of this year’s inundations might be is unclear, but according to a recent report by the African Climate Foundation , climate-change-related events like floods and droughts led to losses of 3 to 5 percent of the country’s gross domestic product from 2010 to 2020.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2012

Large wind farms in certain areas in the United States appear to affect local land surface temperatures, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Nature Climate Change. Nature Climate Change (2012) doi: 10.1038/nclimate1505. Credit: Liming Zhou et al., Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

The dispute has contributed to a significant split among the primary bloc of developing countries, and has highlighted an increased focus on climate adaptation strategies, in addition to emissions reductions, during the talks. ºF) above pre-industrial temperatures.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The funding opportunity is open to all US universities and colleges; a campus determines whether its performance in reducing carbon emissions will qualify based on new methodologies that Chevrolet developed through the Verified Carbon Standard. —Eban Goodstein, director of Bard College’s Center for Environmental Policy in New York.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The data sets pledged by the companies will provide the public and private sectors with new tools to manage curb space in order to reduce congestion and emissions that cause climate change; improve the efficiency of city streets by making it easier for everyone to get around; and save lives by preventing traffic crashes.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

KPMG developed 3 nexuses linked by climate change to represent the challenges of sustainable growth. In a new study, KPMG International has identified 10 “megaforces” that will significantly affect corporate growth globally over the next two decades. The three nexuses are linked by climate change. Source: KPMG.

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