Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2020

More than 70% of this cost comes from the increased mortality risk associated with exposure to the local air pollution emitted when burning fossil fuels; the researchers found that the lost nuclear electricity production due to the phase-out was replaced primarily by coal-fired production and net electricity imports.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 24, 2022

The Golden State wants this number to reach 68 percent by 2030. The climate crisis is solvable if we focus on the big, bold steps necessary to stem the tide of carbon pollution,” Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement. The implications of CARB making these groundbreaking changes will ultimately affect other states as well.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 7, 2024

.& Bloomberg , which reported on the study, focused primarily on the accident rates and air pollution — noting that the paper accused modern roadworks of prioritizing “speed over safety.” Meanwhile, EVs will likely increase specific forms of air pollution (e.g. The motivation for the study came out of a simple need, Miner said.

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Plug in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

The mining industry has a well-documented history of social and environmental degradation that must be addressed as we expand mineral exploration and procurement for the production of batteries needed in electric vehicles. For over 150 years, hardrock mining in the United States has been governed by the General Mining Law of 1872.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are collaborating in the $20-million CalNex research project to examine the nexus between air pollution and climate change. Researchers from all over the United States and Europe will also be on the teams collecting data.

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Climate Change Climate Pollution California 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2017

California accounts for more than 50% of sales in the United States. In California, the transportation sector is responsible for nearly 40% of greenhouse gas emissions and is also by far the largest source of smog-causing pollution and fine particle pollution.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2009

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has reinstated the role of a key policy document created by agency scientists (the Staff Paper) that contains staff analyses of options for the administrator to consider when setting National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) to protect human health and the environment. The new NAAQS review process.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2016

In a first attempt to gauge the scope of the United States’ high-efficiency technology supplier sector for heavy-duty trucks and buses, CALSTART conducted an initial scan of businesses and identified and mapped 255 companies. —Bill Van Amburg, senior vice president of CALSTART.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

EPA’s final findings respond to the 2007 US Supreme Court decision that GHGs fit within the Clean Air Act definition of air pollutants. Technical Support Document for the Findings. EPA also finds that GHG emissions from on-road vehicles contribute to that threat. Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

MAY 10, 2021

Interestingly, the document does not include any additional details regarding the violations. million tons of CO2 have been saved by Tesla vehicles in the United States, according to the company’s website. The press release entailing the fine and solar roof project from BAAQMD is available below.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2012

The classic example of an externality is the release of air pollution as a byproduct of production of a marketable good. The air pollution harms human health, but abatement raises the firm’s production cost.

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Energy Pollution EPA Fuel 265

Plugs and Cars

MARCH 30, 2011

China has opened up high-speed rail lines while the United States fiddles. Yet simultaneously, China has overtaken the United States in the number of automobiles sold annually. Despite billions of dollars of investment, in most of the United States only a tiny percentage of people use mass transit regularly.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

The study offers two main insights on the nature of clean energy jobs in the automobile sector: First, the paper documents that saving oil will directly create good jobs by driving demand for specific additional manufactured components. By 2020, the US job gain relative to 2008 could be as little as 49,000 or more than 150,000.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2009

The document does not propose any requirements on any sources of greenhouse-gas emissions. The Agency has also received public comments seeking the addition of GHGs to the pollutants covered by the new source performance standard (NSPS) for several industrial sectors under section 111 of the CAA. The Committee began an investigation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

Power plants accounted for 32% (2,064 million metric tons of CO 2 equivalent) of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions in the United States in 2012, according to the EPA. Each state’s goal is different, because each state has a unique mix of emissions and power sources to plug in to each part of the formula.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2013

Under the civil settlement, the Transocean defendants also must implement court-enforceable measures to improve the operational safety and emergency response capabilities at all their drilling rigs working in waters of the United States.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

The world’s leading heavy-duty vehicle and engine manufacturing companies are urging the close cooperation between policy makers in Europe, the United States and Japan to develop practical and effective fuel-efficiency measurement metrics, methodologies and regulations which would then be used all around the globe. Globalautoregs.com.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

The report, “ Ultrafine Particulate Matter and the Benefits of Reducing Particle Numbers in the United States ”, first summarizes the current understanding of the potential adverse health impacts of ultrafine particles (UFPs, particles that are finer than 0.1

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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. CURRENT REGIONAL CAP-AND-TRADE PROGRAMS. WCI covers seven U.S.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

The main obstacles will be regulatory and, especially, environmental: Supersonic airliners could be hugely more polluting than their subsonic counterparts. Although the United States chose not to participate in the development of the Concorde, in 1963 President John F. Kennedy announced plans to develop a U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2013

Japan, the United States, and Canada have adopted standards to reduce GHG emissions and/or raise the fuel efficiency of heavy-duty vehicles, and other countries and regions—notably China, Mexico and the EU—are headed toward doing the same. Test cycles. At a minimum, a complete engine fuel map will be needed.

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Standards International Vehicles Fuel 240

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

However, the document notes, while Horizon 2020 will provide the general framework for transport research and. define complementary measures controlling vehicle pollutant emissions in use, based on a thorough analysis, with the aim of delivering a timely reduction of real-world pollutant emissions, hence, contributing to improved air quality.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jenkins has also helped push Congress to think more seriously about the power grid, releasing a report last year that showed that much of the 43 percent emissions reduction expected by 2030 would be squandered if the United States doesn’t double the pace of transmission upgrades. And Oregon is pretty transparent.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

According to the market-analysis firm Point Carbon, if a cap-and-trade system is instituted in the United States, the demand for carbon credits could explode into a $2 to $3 trillion market. with honors, in Marine/Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering from the United States Merchant Marine Academy. CONCLUSION.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

A scholarly literature has documented this process in fields as diverse as engineering, risk reduction, management, and urban studies. New businesses came into being at a faster rate in the United States than in previous years. In 2020, economic analysis of social distancing in the United States showed that as many as 1.7

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

Another of my favorite people on the Southern California environmental scene is State Senator Fran Pavley who also spoke at the press conference. If you had been you would have heard the women I’m pegging as a future United States Senator from California. See, you really should have been there.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

pinned some of the blame for the death of the electric vehicle in the United States on the California Air Resources Board. Consequently, gasoline-power vehicles pollute the most when the engine is first turned on in the morning after being off for many hours. This high-pollution moment is referred to as a cold start.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Okamoto said Toyota will use its existing hybrid system as it looks to build a commercial version of plug-in vehicles it has begun to test in the United States and Japan.

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