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Toyota to pay $180M penalty for Clean Air Act reporting violations

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2021

The United States has filed and simultaneously settled a civil lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Motor North America Inc., The United States has filed and simultaneously settled a civil lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Motor North America Inc.,

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Toyota Clean Cleaning EPA

NHTSA proposes 58 mpg usual for current automobiles by means of 2032

Baua Electric

JULY 28, 2023

WASHINGTON — 3 months later the EPA proposed its strictest-ever limits on tailpipe air pollution, NHTSA has defined gas financial system requirements for current light-duty automobiles and vehicles that will require a mean fleet gas financial system of 58 mpg by means of the 2032 mannequin yr.

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Automobile MPG EPA Gas-Electric

Tesla agrees to pay fine, install solar project in air quality case with Bay Area Air District

Teslarati

MAY 10, 2021

According to the report, Tesla had 33 different violations that included emissions exceeding Tesla’s permit limits, installing or modifying equipment without proper permits, failure to conduct required emissions testing, failure to maintain records, and failure to report information to the Air District in a timely manner.

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Installation Solar Tesla Emissions

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

The United States has already made the largest government investment in carbon capture and storage of any nation, the DOE says, and these investments are being matched by private capital. It addresses the incentives for CCS adoption and any financial, economic, technological, legal, institutional, or other barriers to deployment.

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Obama Carbon Price Coal

Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal; RFS2, BCAP, BIWG and Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

One of the things that we’re going to be talking about today is investing in the kind of technology that will allow us to use coal, our most bountiful natural resource here in the United States, without polluting our planet. Each supply chain component will have specific goals that are informed by the rest of the supply chain.

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Obama Coal Clean Cleaning

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

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

From an official point of view, COP 15 is to be informed by the most recent report from the UNFCCC’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), published in 2007. Some experts estimate that China overtook the United States as the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases as early as 2006.

Climate

Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions

EPA proposes new standards to reduce methane and VOCs emissions from oil and gas industry

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2015

Methane is the second-most prevalent greenhouse gas emitted in the United States from human activities; nearly 30% of those emissions come from oil production and the production, transmission and distribution of natural gas. Costs and benefits.

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EPA Oil Gas Industrial

Volkswagen’s Electrify America supplement discusses ZEV charging investments in disadvantaged California communities

Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Volkswagen subsidiary Electrify America last week submitted supplemental information to the California Air Resources Board (ARB) detailing its proposed charging investment in and benefit to underserved, low-income, and disadvantaged communities in the state as part of its court-mandated investment plan. Earlier post.).

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Final session on international mercury convention this week expected to culminate in agreement; UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 finds industrial source Hg emissions may be rising

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) estimates that 1,960 tonnes of mercury arising from human activities are currently emitted annually into the atmosphere, generated mainly by artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM)—the largest single anthropogenic source globally—and coal- or lignite-fired power plants.

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Mercury Emissions 2013 Global

Driving Dystopia: Europe’s Low Emission Zones Aren't Going Over Well

The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

There's also a £160-million scheme mimicking the United States' defunct Cash-4-Clunkers designed to pay people to destroy their old cars to buy new ULEZ compliant models (which admittedly sounds like it's just going to create more pollution). Basically, you need to be driving an electric vehicle or be prepared to spend £12.50

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EPA proposes repeal of Obama Clean Power Plan

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The repeal package includes the “preamble,” which lays out the proposed legal interpretation, policy implications, and a summary of the cost-benefits analysis of the proposed repeal; and the “Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA),” an in-depth cost-benefit technical analysis. Comments should be identified by Docket ID No.

Obama

Obama EPA Clean Cleaning

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. CURRENT REGIONAL CAP-AND-TRADE PROGRAMS.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Leonardo da Vinci stated it best when he said, “Simplicity is the highest form of sophistication.” Other transaction costs include the search of partners, the drafting of contracts, legal assistance, etc. The SABMF(s) could be manufactured in Lafayette, Louisiana for export. Scenario No. 2: Joint Venture (JV). Scenario No.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions

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Toyota to pay $180M penalty for Clean Air Act reporting violations

NHTSA proposes 58 mpg usual for current automobiles by means of 2032

Tesla agrees to pay fine, install solar project in air quality case with Bay Area Air District

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

Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal; RFS2, BCAP, BIWG and Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force

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

EPA proposes new standards to reduce methane and VOCs emissions from oil and gas industry

Volkswagen’s Electrify America supplement discusses ZEV charging investments in disadvantaged California communities

Final session on international mercury convention this week expected to culminate in agreement; UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 finds industrial source Hg emissions may be rising

Driving Dystopia: Europe’s Low Emission Zones Aren't Going Over Well

EPA proposes repeal of Obama Clean Power Plan

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

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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