Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The 2030 Target Scoping Plan Discussion Draft builds on the state’s efforts to reach its more immediate goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and outlines the most effective ways to reach the new 2030 goal, including continuing California’s Cap-and-Trade program.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2013

The extra waste heat generated from buildings, cars, and other sources in major Northern Hemisphere urban areas causes winter warming across large areas of northern North American and northern Asia. The world’s total energy consumption in 2006 was equivalent to a constant-use rate of 16 terawatts (TW); of that, an average rate of 6.7

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2009

An understanding of the rate of carbon release is necessary to estimate the strength of positive feedback to climate change, a likely consequence of permafrost thaw. Aixue Hu, Gerald Meehl, Weiqing Han, and Jianjun Yin (2009) Transient Response of the MOC and Climate to Potential Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet in the 21 st Century.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The firm modelled how Canada can achieve both the federal government’s current target (20% below the 2006 level by 2020) as well as a more ambitious target (25% below the 1990 level by 2020). The study indicates that Canada can implement much stronger climate policies than the US and still prosper economically. for heating buildings).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2010

“We’ve made and will continue to make steady progress building the groundwork for Ontario’s electric vehicle market. Minister of Transportation Since 2006, the province has also provided more than $24 million in rebates for more than 14,000 conventional hybrid vehicles through its Alternative Fuel RST Rebate Program. Kathleen Wynne.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The Land Sink, represented by the outer ring, offset the equivalent of 13% of total US anthropogenic emissions in 2006. The entire pie chart represents total US emissions in 2006; the inner portion of the pie chart represents net emissions. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Land use Policy.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2024

s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. Green software engineering is an emerging discipline consisting of best practices to build applications that reduce carbon emissions. And software engineers have tremendous influence on the actual purpose and emissions of what they build.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Fast emerging economies need an incentive to stop building coal powered plants, and, again, the emphasis is on the richer countries to step in. Tags: The Green Piece Copenhagen Copenhagen Climate Change meeting. Who are the key players? The US and China are widely accepted as the two key players in negotiations. Faye Sunderland.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The contribution of HFCs to climate forcing is currently less than 1% of all greenhouse gases. However, levels of HFCs are rising as they replace HCFCs—HFC 134a, the most popular type, has increased in the atmosphere by about 10% per year since 2006. Climate and the Ozone Layer. —HFCs: A Critical Link in Protecting.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

The company believes that this novel approach will allow it to build a high-performance tokamak that is much smaller and less expensive than would be possible with previous approaches. Among the magnetic-confinement crowd, CFS leads the pack in fundraising, having secured more than $2 billion to build its Sparc pilot plant.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2009

Washington Governor Chris Gregoire and legislative leaders have introduced a Green Jobs and Climate Action legislative package that proposes investments totaling $455 million in the next biennium for energy-reducing transportation projects, energy efficiency projects, green buildings and clean-energy technology.

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Washington Climate Transportation Climate Change 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2017

The plan builds on the state’s efforts to reduce emissions and outlines the most effective ways to reach the 2030 goal, including continuing California’s Cap-and-Trade Program. Earlier post.) The proposed plan continues the Cap-and-Trade Program through 2030 and includes a new approach to reduce greenhouse gases from refineries by 20%.

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California Cleaner Emissions Pollution 150

EV Connect

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

After 150 years without much happening around electric vehicles, Tesla set off a spark in 2006 that triggered a chain reaction of rapid growth and change. The software and support makes it easy for building managers to manage costs and their overall EV charging infrastructure. Most of the time, evolution moves slowly.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Biodiesel production and use recognizes and builds on this progress. Key findings of the study include: Average soybean yield for the 2004-2007 time period was 42.35 kg (for the 3.36 The study provides a resource for companies to update life cycle assessments on their specific products made using US soy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

X PRIZE’s Energy & Environment Prize Group intends to catalyze a new era of clean, renewable, cost-effective energy with minimal impact on the climate and environment. Areas of consideration include breakthroughs in climate change, water resource management, energy distribution & storage, clean energy, energy efficiency/use.

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Water 2004 Climate Change Clean 231

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Building on the clean air gains achieved since the ports adopted the CAAP in 2006, the 2017 CAAP is a comprehensive plan for pursuing the ultimate goal of eliminating all harmful air emissions from port-related sources: ships, trucks, cargo handling equipment, locomotives and harbor craft.

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Long Beach 2017 Clean Cleaning 150

Creative Greenius

MARCH 8, 2009

To educate and motivate the public about the most accurate science facts and the best environmental practices, and to assist and partner with the City of Torrance and the South Bay Environmental Services Center to help the city meet state and county environmental standards/mandates in four key areas: 1. Climate Change / AB 32 Emissions Goals.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 14, 2009

Established in 2002 under Senate Bill 1078 and accelerated in 2006 under Senate Bill 107, California’s Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) is one of the most ambitious renewable energy standards in the country. But setting a standard ain’t the same thing as keeping a standard. But without execution ambition is empty.

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Sacramento Solar California Environment 191

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2013

2015) formulated by the National Development and Reform Commission of China (NDRC), coal consumption will be limited to 3900 million metric tons (MMT) by 2015, which will present a challenge given the tremendous increase in coal use within the last 5 years (2300 MMT in 2006 and 3200 MMT in 2010). Nonetheless, EVs still have 2?3

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Cars That Think

MARCH 24, 2022

In 2006 Estrin expanded her research to digital health monitoring. The startup uses open-source software to build customized applications that address health conditions such as chronic pain, diabetes, and depression. One of her projects involved placing tiny imagers in birds’ nests to study the birds’ behavior and nesting cycles. “I

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The Exxon/Mobil refinery in Torrance and the Chevron refinery in El Segundo are both located in the South Bay and are each a big part of the carbon-based economy that causes the majority of climate change - although you’ll never get either of these corporations to admit this truth or take responsibility for it. Vehicle Fleet.

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Los Angeles Climate Change Climate Obama 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2012

A company could build a coal?fired This agreement addressed, in part, EPA’s September 2007 remand of its February 2006 final decision not to set standards for boilers. Plants that install and operate CCS right away would have the flexibility to emit more CO 2 in the early years as they learn how to best optimize the controls.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

announced its next environmental sustainability strategy—PLANET 2050—which includes science-based goals that meet or exceed the goals in the United Nations Paris agreement on climate change. Cummins Inc. By 2050, Cummins is targeting net-zero carbon emissions. —Eric Olson, Senior Vice President at BSR.

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Emissions Carbon Climate Change Climate 278

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Transportation sources accounted for approximately 40% of all GHG emissions in the US in 2006; medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (above 8,500 gross vehicle weight rating) represent about 22% of the transportation emissions, up from 15 percent in 1990, according to the EPA. million barrels per day.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The cap-and-trade program is expected to result in increased investment in efficient buildings and technologies and in advanced fuels. AB 32, signed by Governor Schwarzenegger in 2006, is California’s Global Warming Solutions Act that set in law greenhouse gas reduction targets that will reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Plug In Partners

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Here's the press release: PLUG-IN PARTNERS DECLARES VICTORY In January 2006, Austin Energy launched the national Plug-In Partners campaign, a grassroots effort to demonstrate to automakers that there is sufficient demand to support the mass production of flexible-fuel plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Second, was environmental.

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Nickel Cadmium Austin Plug-in PHEV 100

Green Cars News

JULY 8, 2009

Current climate change policies which focus on overall carbon emissions are failing and should be abandoned, a consortium of research institutes concludes. But the best case outcome being predicted is merely more of the symbolic exhortation that has characterised climate policy for almost two decades.”.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. This investment will build on our existing methanol technology, facilitating even more valuable solutions and helping to propel this part of our business in China.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

Its wholly interpretive guidelines can be used to approve or disapprove a building, addition or remodel completely on subjective principles. I went down to the Building Dept and they said, “It will be two weeks before we get back to you.” And then the senior gentlemen in the building with the Safety Dept. What happened?”.

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Solar Installation California Building 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

Since the advent of the first Low-Emission Vehicle regulations in 1990 and the passage of California Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32) in 2006, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has attempted to address the state’s air quality and climate goals by requiring development of motor vehicles that do not directly emit NO x or other criteria pollutants.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

If everyone could hear Ed talk about the smart grid and how plug-in cars make it possible to inventory electricity then we’d already be building that grid today. From there she went on to author and spearhead AB 32 our Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. One voice really can change the world.

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Baua Electric

MAY 8, 2024

Instead, on a kayak tour with Serlon St Jago, a guide from the Curaçao Rif Mangrove Park , we were learning about the country’s mangrove restoration, and the vital role mangrove habitats play in coastal resilience, protection for marine and bird species, and fighting the effects of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2020

in a year while not experiencing an economic downturn since California passed AB 32 in 2006. This year’s Index highlights just how much things need to change. While 2020 may see a similar emissions drop, the state has never cut emissions more than 2.6% Now the state must double that each year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2009

The LCFS calls for at least a 10% reduction from 2006 levels in the carbon intensity (measured in gCO 2 e/MJ) of California’s transportation fuels by 2020. since some of the wood is used for building material, it continues to sequester carbon after the clearing event. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Fuels Policy.

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Carbon California Standards Fuel 225

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Batteries Included $142,000 Grant 2006 Archive GM Plug-in Series Hybrid? New 100K Club Member RAV4EV in Japan Newsletter Vol. 2 PIA Meets CARB Move CARB Forward AltCar Expo 2007 Arnold Amped Up? 100K Mile Club Newsletter Vol. 1 $100,000 Grant Moving in the Right Direction? htm Advocates of the Th! htm Advocates of the Th!

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

Clean Air Task Force Take the SunZia transmission line project which was started in 2006 to send enough renewable power via transmission lines 520 miles across federal, state and private lands between New Mexico and central Arizona. If no final hurdles appear, that project might begin construction in 2023 and be completed in 2025.

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Grid Iowa Wind Miles 96

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. The expansion will add an assembly line to build lithium batteries for automotive applications. Establishing dealer network. Batteries not ready.

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