Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

The Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Technology Program’s Investment Plan allocates $176 million over the next two years to stimulate green transportation projects and encourage innovation to help meet the state’s aggressive climate change policies. Vehicles are the major contributor to global warming pollution.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The South Bay is defined by the LAX Airport to the north and the Port of Los Angeles to the south - two of the biggest polluters in Southern California. Just one solitary person tasked with coordinating the entire regions’ emissions inventory and helping each city create its climate action plan to reduce its carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The release begins a public comment period culminating in a 16 December public hearing in Sacramento, California, at which the Board will consider adopting the proposed program. These protocols are based on those initially developed by the Climate Action Reserve (CAR) and its predecessor, the California Climate Action Registry (CCAR).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The Scoping Plan describes the comprehensive range of efforts California must take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and meet the state’s long-term goals to combat climate change. What steps must California now take to meet the state’s climate goals beyond 2020? Recommended transportation actions beyond 2020.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Rising fuel-economy standards during the 2020s will do the same. Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. But today, heavy trucks remain a diesel world. That’s about to change.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

Madison, Phoenix, Sacramento, Santa Ana, CA., Oakland, Sacramento, and Salt Lake City. A large coalition has formed around the issues of national security, combating climate change, saving on fuel costs and increasing business for American agriculture. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX., Keene, N.H., Irvine, CA.,

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. First off you might be surprised that our cities have Climate Action Plans, but don’t be.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

O’Brien was speaking at the California Air Resources Board’s ZEV Technology Symposium in Sacramento, California. Prius best embodies Toyota’s philosophy on advanced vehicle technology—for vehicles to become true solutions to our climate change and environmental challenges, they must be mass market solutions. Earlier post.).

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