Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

The EPA provides further information on how renewable energy certificates are used to account for renewable electrcity generation and use. In select markets within Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island, Arcadia’s platform connects qualifying customers to community solar projects in their area.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded more than $6.6 million in grants to eight universities in support of black carbon research. Black carbon deposited on snow and ice hastens melting by directly absorbing sunlight and by darkening the surface, which reduces the amount of light reflected back to space.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $8 million to communities in 21 states and Puerto Rico to reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of diesel engines through the agency’s Diesel Emission Reduction Act ( DERA ) program. EPA estimates that every $1 in DERA funding generates up to $13 in health care savings.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2009

The letter comes as the EPA considers this change to federal rules. Under current EPA regulations, the blend limit is 10%. Michael Rounds, Immediate Past Chair; Illinois Gov. The letter was signed by Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Chair of the Midwestern Governors Association; South Dakota Gov. Pat Quinn; Indiana Gov.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

B20 Club: The B20 Club is a partnership of the Illinois Soybean Association Checkoff Program and the American Lung Association in Illinois, recognizing Illinois-based fleets running on biodiesel blends of 20% or greater for at least six months of the year. US EPA’s Clean Diesel Program: Diesel emissions account for 6.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2012

EPA has informed the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) that the RFA Model E15 Misfueling Mitigation Plan would generally be sufficient to satisfy the partial waivers’ requirement for a misfueling mitigation plan. The RFA MMP generally meets those requirements, according to the EPA. and no more than 15% vol. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2019

The deaths caused per bushel in western corn belt states such as Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska tend to be lower than in eastern corn belt states such as Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. This uses a value from the US EPA of $9 million for each death avoided. precursor—That result from nitrogen fertilizer use.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The others are Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The fuel is approved by the EPA for all cars and light-duty vehicles with a model year of 2001 or newer, as well as flex-fuel vehicles. North Dakota is the ninth state to offer the fuel blend containing 15% ethanol and 85% gasoline.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Rivian and TNC solidified their partnership on a trip through the Nachusa Grasslands , just a few hours away from the EV maker’s manufacturing plant in Normal, Illinois. Rivian R1T and R1S formally receive EPA rating above 300 miles.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2024

To accelerate the launch, Rivian will build the R2 at its Normal, Illinois facility rather than its new plant in Georgia. Scaringe announced the R2 was already generating strong interest, with over 68,000 reservations in under 24 hours. Kia has found recent success with its first three-row EV9 electric SUV.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

EPA with a 520-mile range. Earlier in the month the Rivian R1T pickup’s Launch Edition was rated by the EPA at 314 miles of range, while its sister SUV, the R1S clocked in a 316 miles. EPA also published the Lucid motors’ efficiency, which was calculated to be 27 kWh/100 miles, besting Tesla’s Model S.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2016

California uses the EMFAC (EMission FACtors) emissions model; the rest of the US uses the EPA MOVES (Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator) model. Most emission inventory calculations use a computer model to estimate the fleet’s emissions. In their study, Bishop et al.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 17, 2023

Vehicles approved by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) can be found by going to the fuel-economy offshoot of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website. Though, perhaps more interesting, is seeing Rivian's electric trucks (the R1S and R1T) losing their eligibility — despite the vehicles themselves being assembled in Illinois.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2013

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) categorizes the incident as a “major spill”—i.e., The Pegasus pipeline is a 20-inch (51 cm), 858-mile (1,381-kilometer) link from the Patoka Oil Terminal Hub in Illinois to Nederland, Texas. The pipeline has been shut in and crews are working to contain the spill.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 7, 2015

That's the conundrum facing diesel-engine engineers, as summarized by Don Hillebrand, the director of energy systems research at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. "You have power, you have energy, you have emissions: You get to choose two of them."

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

kWh MPGe City/Hwy: 98 miles/83 miles EPA Estimated Rage: 236 miles Charging: 10-80% in 18 minutes on 350kW/800V charger From my personal experience, those last two specs did not live up to their numbers on paper, especially range. I left Dixon with 190 miles of range and after driving 50 miles, was suddenly down to 110 miles remaining.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2013

A policy analysis by two University of Illinois researchers argues that Congress should minimally modify, not repeal, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). A January 2013 ruling by the US Court of Appeals required EPA to reevaluate projections for cellulosic biofuel to reflect market conditions. In the study, law professor Jay P.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Iowa State University, Deere and Company, Green Electronics Council. The following teams have been selected for negotiations: Quantification of Financial and Environmental Benefits Tradeoffs in Multi-Generational Product Family Development Considering Re-X Performances.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2009

Butanol is certified by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as an additive agent in gasoline up to 11%. Prospect, Illinois, and Dr. Kevin Witty, Associate Professor at the Institute of Clean and Secure Energy located in Salt Lake City, Utah as its primary technical program advisors. —Jeff Raines.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Fertilizer applied to cornfields in the central US—including states such as Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin—is the primary source of nitrogen pollution in the Mississippi River system, which drains into the Gulf of Mexico. In some cases, decomposition of algae consumes much of the oxygen in the water.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The R1T can travel an EPA-rated 314 miles at 70 mpge in combined city and highway use. The first R1T’s are already rolling from a former Mitsubishi factory in Illinois, to be closely followed by an R1S SUV version with seating for five or seven passengers. It’s a situation Rivian might want to address, pronto.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Stone’s study looked at 11 major metropolitan regions (MSAs, Metropolitan Statistical Areas) in EPA Region V (the Midwest) over a 50-year period and assessed four different scenarios: Business-as-Usual Development Scenario (BAU). Paul, Minnesota; Cincinnati, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and Dayton, Ohio.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2015

The ERC submitted a summary of the analysis to the EPA during one of the pubic hearings on the proposal. gCO 2 e/MJ (as opposed to 28 gCO 2 e/MJ used by EPA for corn ethanol). A total of 17.5 billion gallons of ethanol would be blended with gasoline by 2016, 3.75 billion fewer gallons than originally mandated by Congress. Mueller, S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2018

President Trump has directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to begin a rulemaking process to expand the sale of ethanol to include E15 (15 vol% ethanol blend) year-round. The directive to the EPA is to change that. Proponents of the move hope to have the rulemaking in place for the summer 2019 driving season.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2022

For example, in Illinois, Power Mart Express Corp., Expanding use of canola oil: The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is also announcing efforts to expand supply and choices for other forms of fuel, such as diesel and jet fuel. The awards being announced will support 9 projects in 7 states. DBA PME, is receiving a $2.9-million

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2009

miles per gallon in an off-the-showroom floor, non-modified 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid, nearly doubling its EPA rating. CleanMPG.com founder Wayne Gerdes, an engineer from Illinois who coined the term “hypermiling” to describe the mileage-maximizing techniques, provided the pointers. They did it by averaging 81.5

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Baua Electric

JUNE 7, 2023

Indistinguishable demanding situations have been filed via the Proprietor-Operator Free Drivers Affiliation, the American Petroleum Institute, the Illinois Soybean Affiliation, the Nationwide Affiliation of Comfort Shops and Diamond Backup Power, a unit of Valero, and alternative teams. The EPA declined to remark. California Gov.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

states (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Manitoba). EPA granted Renergie a first-of-its-kind waiver for the purpose of testing hydrous E10, E20, E30 & E85 ethanol blends in non-flex-fuel vehicles and flex-fuel vehicles in Louisiana. Coverage: In 2012–50% of emissions.

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