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Green Car Congress
APRIL 2, 2018
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the completion of the Midterm Evaluation (MTE) process for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for cars and light trucks for model years 2022-2025, and his final determination that the current standards are not appropriate and should be revised.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 9, 2011
For purposes of the new HD National Program, the heavy-duty fleet incorporates all on-road vehicles rated at a gross vehicle weight at or above 8,500 pounds, and the engines that power them, except those covered by the current GHG emissions and Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for model year 2012-2016 passenger vehicles.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
The Obama Administration’s proposed FY 2013 budget of $8.344 billion for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is $105 million below the EPA’s enacted level for FY 2012. EPA will work to target assistance to small and underserved communities with limited ability to repay loans, while maintaining state program integrity.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 25, 2013
Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Earlier post.). Reducing barriers to investment in energy efficiency.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 19, 2009
Source: EPA. Materials management refers to how material resources are managed as they flow through the economy, from extraction or harvest of materials and food (e.g., Greenfield development emissions are not included in the Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, and are therefore depicted outside of the pie chart.
Setec Powerr
DECEMBER 5, 2022
More than one generation, if not a bit longer, the transition to an environmentally sustainable economy. Our power system and its management are one of the few examples of highly centralized vertical organizational integration remaining in our economy. The transition to an environmentally sound economy will be messy and slow.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 12, 2016
An updated set of these standards, known as “Phase 2” and covering 2019-2027, is due out soon from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). But as the CALSTART white paper discovered, North American vehicles are changing that trend partially due to fuel economy rules.
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