Climate, Legal, Obama and Pollution

Federal Task Force Concludes CCS is Viable, But Carbon Price Is Critical; Sends Recommendations to President Obama on Fostering the Technology

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2010

President Obama’s Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), co-chaired by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE), delivered a series of recommendations to the president on overcoming the barriers to the widespread, cost-effective deployment of CCS within 10 years.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Although most countries have already revealed their opening emissions reduction proposals, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer pointed out Thursday that “ we still await clarity from industrialized nations on the provision of large-scale finance to developing countries for immediate and long-term climate action. by Jack Rosebro.

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EPA tightens national annual PM2.5 standard to 12 µg/m3

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In response to a court order, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized an update to its national air quality standards for harmful fine particle pollution (PM 2.5 ), including soot, setting the annual health (primary) standard at 12 µg/m 3. The outgoing annual standard is 15 µg/m 3 , which has been in place since 1997.

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California Air Resources Board unanimously adopts Advanced Clean Cars Package

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

The Advanced Clean Cars package will help clean our air, help us fight climate change, and perhaps most important for average citizens, save thousands of dollars over the life of the vehicles. This marks a new chapter in the history of ARB. ”. This program will make the cleanest cars and the new technologies commonplace. credits.

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Comedy CAFE Clowns Crack Me Up

Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

They sold out our climate so they could line their pockets and they’ve still got their hands out of their limo windows. That’s a real bummer about your lack of money old Chucky, but I’m still laughing away at your karma, dude. “A nightmare scenario for automakers,&# the Bird Cage Liner calls it.

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EPA proposes repeal of Obama Clean Power Plan

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Released in 2015 by the Obama Administration EPA, the CPP established the first national standards to limit CO 2 emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power plants (Electric Generating Units, EGUs), with a target of a 32% reduction against a 2005 baseline by 2030. Earlier post.).

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Trump Administration revocation of California waiver reprises US denial of California waiver in 2007

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In a series of tweets Wednesday morning, President Trump said that his administration “ is revoking California’s Federal Waiver on emissions ”—a reference to the waiver of preemption under the federal Clean Air Act granted California by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the Obama Administration in 2012.

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EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In order to comply with the Obama standards, auto makers need to sell many more electric vehicles. According to the Obama EPA’s 2012 analysis, even a much more stringent version of the rule than the one that eventually finalized would have lowered global temperatures by only two-one hundredths of a degree Celsius by 2100.

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Consumer Reports calls on automakers to drop support for rollback of federal gas mileage standards

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2020

Consumer Reports sent letters and a consumer petition to the leaders of General Motors, Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, Nissan, Subaru, Mazda, Hyundai, Kia, and Mitsubishi, calling on the companies to drop their legal attack against America’s Clean Air Act, and instead support Clean Car standards that help drivers save money on fuel and reduce air pollution.

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Since President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act in 1963, federal regulations aimed at reducing air pollution have gradually grown stronger. Under President Obama, the EPA set the first federal greenhouse gas standard for cars. The Clean Air Act allows the EPA to address pollutants coming out of the tailpipe of a car.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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. Western Climate Initiative (WCI). INTRODUCTION. Representatives Henry A.

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Former EPA exec Margo Oge explains the new federal emissions rules

Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2022

For me, the most important thing is that there is an urgency across the planet to address climate change. I think it’s one thing to have a commitment for 2030 and 2035, and it’s another thing to have to meet legal requirements and standards. The courts put them on hold, all these legal challenges. The companies are investing.

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Battery advances will strengthen Biden’s EPA

Electric Auto Association

MARCH 27, 2021

EPA legal prospects looking up The EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles is already on a solid legal footing. When regulating the pollutants from light duty vehicles, the EPA is required to reconcile its obligation to protect the environment with the feasibility of the rules imposed on automakers.

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Gas War: 25 States Sue EPA Over Updated Emissions Regulations

The Truth About Cars

APRIL 30, 2024

& If those claims sound familiar, it’s effectively what the Trump administration said when it attempted to roll back Obama-era emission requirements and revoke the California fueling waiver that basically allowed the state to position itself as the de facto federal standard — something we’ve covered several times in the past. .&

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Federal Task Force Concludes CCS is Viable, But Carbon Price Is Critical; Sends Recommendations to President Obama on Fostering the Technology

Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

EPA tightens national annual PM2.5 standard to 12 µg/m3

California Air Resources Board unanimously adopts Advanced Clean Cars Package

Comedy CAFE Clowns Crack Me Up

EPA proposes repeal of Obama Clean Power Plan

Trump Administration revocation of California waiver reprises US denial of California waiver in 2007

EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

Consumer Reports calls on automakers to drop support for rollback of federal gas mileage standards

Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Former EPA exec Margo Oge explains the new federal emissions rules

Battery advances will strengthen Biden’s EPA

Gas War: 25 States Sue EPA Over Updated Emissions Regulations

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