Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

The US EPA and San Diego County Air Pollution Control District (SDAPCD), in cooperation with US Customs and Border Protection and the US General Services Administration have installed a new air pollution monitor at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Mexico border crossing,” Atmospheric Environment doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.12.042.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the US’ existing fleet of diesel engines. Grant funds may be used for clean diesel projects that use: EPA-verified retrofit technologies or certified engine configurations.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

A coalition of 11 states filed a lawsuit to compel the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promptly to revise national air quality standards for air pollution involving soot. The EPA had failed to meet an October 2011 deadline for revising the existing standards. EPA last revised the standards in 2006.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 8, 2024

The adjustments in the range were caused by new EPA testing strategies that were set to change with 2024 model-year vehicles. We covered the changes, which affected the Model Y’s Long Range and Performance configurations , as well as the Model S Plaid and Model X Plaid, the two fastest cars in the Tesla lineup.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2021

operates 1,400 Class 8 trucks nationwide, all of which are certified under the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) SmartWay program as meeting high transportation sustainability and efficiency standards. Albertsons Cos.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2018

suggesting long-term exposure to PM 2.5 , as well as ozone above the current US EPA standards, are associated with increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease. The study by heightens concerns over the evolving and relentless Alzheimer’s pathology observed in young Metropolitan Mexico City (MMC) urbanites. g/m 3 in PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Honda continued the expansion of its manufacturing operations in North America with the production start of the redesigned 2015 Honda Fit at a new, automobile plant of Honda de Mexico, S.A. The start-up of the Celaya Plant increases Honda’s annual automobile production capacity in North America to approximately 1.92 million units.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 1, 2024

The CEO of Toyota isn’t mincing words, saying that he believes EVs will only make up 30% of the US new-vehicle market in 2030, half of the target the EPA sought last year. As the car industry’s largest hybrid pusher, Toyota says it is better positioned to just buy credits to close the EPA gap rather than “waste” money on BEVs, its CEO said.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 9, 2024

As of writing, the upgraded Model 3 is now available for order in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. The base Tesla Model 3 Highland features 272 miles of EPA estimated range, a top speed of 125 mph, and a 0-60 mph time of 5.8 With this change, the previous generation Model 3 has been phased out.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 3, 2023

” The EPA has yet to publish any documents indicating that the Cybertruck has been approved with a Certificate of Conformity that would allow it to enter the stream of commerce. It seems there is no limit to what will be available, just as CEO Elon Musk said some years ago.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

Source: EPA. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted its final Report to Congress on Black Carbon , in response to an October 2009 request from Congress to advance efforts to understand the role of black carbon (BC) in climate change. Source: EPA. Key policy-relevant scientific uncertainties related to BC.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2009

The US Environmental Agency (EPA) has granted California’s waiver request enabling the state to enforce its greenhouse gas emissions standards (Pavley I) for new motor vehicles, beginning with the current model year. California requested from EPA the waiver required for implementation of the Pavley regulations in December 2005.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2010

The plan we are proposing calls for 4 more lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico by 2012 and, in the years beyond, would open up two-thirds of the oil and gas resources in the Eastern Gulf while protecting Florida’s coast and critical military training areas. Secretary Salazar. Energy Security Announcements.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

In July, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) favorably reviewed Joule’s Microbial Commercial Activity Notice (MCAN) for the company’s first commercial ethanol-producing catalyst (a modified Synechococcus cyanobacterium). This cleared the catalyst for commercial use at the company’s demonstration plant in Hobbs, New Mexico.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

The Wärtsilä 34DF engine can be operated on either gas or diesel fuel with full US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emissions compliance. —Harvey Gulf CEO Shane J.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 3, 2024

The new list of most American-made vehicles hasn’t been released yet, but we get new information from the Cybertruck’s Monroney sticker: The sticker needs to come with vehicles sold in the US and it contains important information, like EPA rating, and the source of some parts in the vehicle.

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Plug in America

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Working together, the EPA LDV emission and CAFE standards reduce demand for fossil fuels, save drivers money, and provide greater fuel security. New Mexico adopted the Advanced Clean Cars II standard (ACC II). ACC II will increase the number of zero-emission vehicles sold in New Mexico and provide greater consumer choice of EVs.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2014

Paired to two new transmissions, a slick-shifting 6-speed manual or a sporty and fuel-efficient Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) with available paddle shifters, the Fit powertrain is anticipated to have EPA-estimated fuel economy ratings of 33 mpg US city/41 highway/36 combined (7.1, l/100 km, respectively) (CVT-equipped models).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2024

Seven months after kicking off production of its Class 3 electric trucks in Mississippi, EV startup Mullen Automotive has secured fruitful environmental compliance and approvals from CARB and the EPA. Having both our Class 1 and Class 3 commercial EVs now CARB and EPA certified will continue to drive sales in all states across America.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2021

The community seeks to reduce carbon monoxide pollution to improve air quality and quality of life in their EPA-designated non-attainment area. New Mexico Department of Transportation. Eligible applicants for Low-No funding included public transit agencies, state transportation departments and Indian Tribes. Utah Transit Authority.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Mexico’s state oil company PEMEX Refining has awarded ICA Fluor, the industrial construction joint venture of Empresas ICA, S.A.B. and Fluor Corporation, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for two low-sulfur gasoline projects in Mexico.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Dead zones are commonly observed in the nearshore waters of the western and northern Gulf of Mexico in summer, but not normally in the deep water layer (3,300 – 4,300 feet) where the lowered oxygen areas in this study occurred. A dead zone is an area of very low dissolved oxygen that cannot support most life. — Steve Murawski, Ph.D.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Under the agreement the companies will expand Sapphire Energy’s current testing programs to further validate that Green Crude can be refined in traditional refineries and meet all of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) certification requirements under the Clean Air Act.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2013

According to court documents, on 20 April 2010, while stationed at the Macondo well site in the Gulf of Mexico, the Deepwater Horizon rig experienced an uncontrolled blowout and related explosions and fire, which resulted in the deaths of 11 rig workers and the largest oil spill in US history.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The findings suggest that an aggressive nutrient management strategy will be needed to reach the goal of a 5,000 km 2 areal extent of hypoxia set forth by the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force even in the absence of biofuels, given current production to meet food, feed, and other industrial needs. Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2024

Although Tesla initially planned to build them at its new Gigafactory in Mexico, an excerpt from CEO Elon Musk’s biography said the next-gen EVs will be made in Texas. Rivian R2 (Source: Rivian) Rivian isn’t the only EV maker making a push into cheaper, mass-market electric cars. Tesla is also planning to launch next-gen EVs.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

There’s a storm brewing in the USA– and its all over the national air quality standards for air pollution released by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The global warming potentials (GWP) of HFCs range from 140 (HFC-152a) to 11,700 (HFC-23), according to the US EPA. The United States, Mexico, and Canada also proposed a similar amendment. India and the US have agreed to establish an Indo-US Technical Task Force on hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs—super greenhouse gases.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

—Jake Beaulieu of the University of Notre Dame and the US EPA, and lead author of the PNAS paper. Clifford Dahm of the University of New Mexico; Walter Dodds of Kansas State University; Nancy Grimm of Arizona State University; Sherri Johnson of the US Forest Service in Corvallis, Ore.;

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Electric Auto Association

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

As the grants manager for Dona Ana County in New Mexico, he is involved with clean transportation on a daily basis. He serves on several non-profit boards, and works as the lead volunteer for Drive Electric Northeast Ohio , a grassroots EV car club affiliated with the state's EPA Clean Cities Coalition organization.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2012

EPA AQI map of the San Diego County region,with a box added to. Just 100 of the sensors deployed in a fairly large area could generate a wealth of data—well beyond what a small number of EPA-mandated air-quality monitoring stations can provide, according to the researchers. indicate UCSD campus. Nikzad et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Both engines are targeted to receive EPA highway fuel economy ratings in excess of 40 mpg. liter turbo engines will be manufactured in Anna, Ohio, and the vehicle’s two automatic transmissions (CVTs) will be sourced from Honda plants in Russells Point, Ohio, and Celaya, Mexico. The new Civic’s 2.0-liter liter and 1.5-liter

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2015

exhaust from heavy-duty diesel engines meeting EPA 2007 and later emissions requirements—has found no evidence of carcinogenic lung tumors. HEI is an independent, non-profit research institute funded jointly by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the worldwide motor vehicle industry. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2017

Among the changes, the standard now allows the increase of the percentage of ethanol in gasolines from six to ten percent in the whole country, except for the Metropolitan Zones of the Valley of Mexico, Guadalajara and Monterrey. Mexico is moving from a single supplier model to one of competition in the gasoline and diesel markets.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2014

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has favorably reviewed Joule’s Microbial Commercial Activity Notice (MCAN) for the company’s first commercial ethanol-producing catalyst (a modified Synechococcus cyanobacterium). This clears the catalyst for commercial use at the company’s demonstration plant in Hobbs, New Mexico.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2011

Fuel efficiency was not used as a specific criterion for evaluation; estimated 2014 MY EPA combined label fuel economy is 25 mpg US (9.4 Planned features, which respond to direct input from drivers, owners and passengers, include: EPA Tier 2 Bin 5 2.0L

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Running on 87 octane, the EPA rates the HR-V AWD at 25 mpg city/30 highway/27 combined. various parts are sourced from Canada and Mexico, with the final assembly point of Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. When AWD isn’t needed, the system switches back to front-wheel drive. The HR-V is a true international crossover.

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