Green Cars News

MAY 21, 2009

US President Barack Obama has confirmed a new national policy that intends to slash fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions on all new cars and trucks sold in the USA. This speeds up the initial CAFE programme target set by the EISA 2007 which specified a minimum of 35mpg by 2020.

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Green Cars News

MAY 7, 2009

The Obama administration has confirmed its committment to meet the 2007 ‘Renewable Fuels Standard’ yet has added caps on the use of grain-based ethanol to address concerns over negative impact associated with their use such as greenhouse emissions, increased food prices and land clearing.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

The National Clean Fleets Partnership, announced by President Obama in April, is a public-private partnership that helps large companies reduce diesel and gasoline use in their fleets by incorporating electric vehicles, alternative fuels, and fuel-saving measures into their daily operations. This project is expected to save 1.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

In his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, President Obama proposed “ we use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an Energy Security Trust that will drive new research and technology to shift our cars and trucks off oil for good. Much later, in 2007, US Rep. —President Carter. John Larson (D-CT-1) introduced H.R.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 12, 2007

Legislation proposed in the Senate by Senators Obama, Hatch and Cantwell to offer tax credits to convert hybrids to plug-ins now has its counterpart in Congressman Ed Markey's House bill. Tags: rechargeit.org obama edrive hymotion ed markey electric car plug-in partners plug-in hybrid hatch cantwell hybridsplus.

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APRIL 10, 2010

The 4-7 March Gallup poll was conducted a few weeks before President Obama came out in favor of oil exploration off some sections of the US coast ( earlier post ), and shortly after he advocated the expanded use of nuclear power in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2012

Lease Sale 216/222 is the last remaining sale scheduled in the 2007 – 2012 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Natural Gas Leasing Program. The sale will include all available unleased areas in the Central Planning Area offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2009

The request was subsequently denied in December 2007. Shortly after taking office in January, President Barack Obama directed EPA to assess the appropriateness of denying the waiver. The CAFE program established by the EISA 2007 legislation specified a minimum 35 mpg in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2012

The National Clean Fleets Partnership, first announced by President Obama last April, aims to speed the deployment of clean, energy-efficient vehicles and the infrastructure to support their widespread use nationwide. In 2007, PG&E was the first utility to demonstrate the ability of electric vehicles to supply homes and businesses with power.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I do not agree with the EPA or the 2007 Supreme Court ruling that gave the Agency that authority. When Congress passed the Clean Air Act, it never gave EPA the explicit authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions for the purpose of stopping global climate change. But, that is exactly what EPA has proposed to do.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Westinghouse submitted an application to amend the AP1000 on 27 May 2007. In February 2010, the Obama Administration announced the offer of a conditional commitment for a $8.33 NRC’s technical review of the amendment request focused on ensuring the agency’s safety requirements have been met. protection system instrumentation update.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Production of renewable fuels has been growing rapidly in recent years, while at the same time, advances in vehicle fuel economy and other economic factors have pushed gasoline consumption far lower than what was expected when Congress passed the Renewable Fuel Standard in 2007. Various biogas producers. 35 – 54. 0 – 7.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

At the time of the launch of Envi in late 2007, Chrysler executives had said the unit would operate with the speed of a venture capital-backed start-up that would compress the three-to-five-year development cycle typical for automakers. . More details below: Tags: Obama Energy chrysler.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

However, the slow pace of negotiations spurred UNFCCC delegates to publish a “roadmap to Copenhagen” in December 2007 at the 13 th Congress in Bali, in an effort to accelerate the progress of those negotiations. “ Bretton Woods plus Yalta, multiplied by Reykjavik.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2010

The Obama Administration’s recent extension of the offshore oil-drilling moratorium through 2011 has also renewed investor interest in on-shore oil reserves. An increased focus on energy security and dwindling petroleum reserves are driving development of unconventional liquid fuel sources in the US.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

Last week, the Obama administration announced new fuel economy standards for automobiles that provides some incentives for electric cars. On the national level, the Obama administration has set the goal of 1 million plug-in hybrids on U.S. Tags: EV Chargers EV Economics Obama Energy New York City. That represents only 1.43

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

Our challenge, well, President Obama in one policy statement after another has advocated for an all of the above strategy when it comes to sustainable mobility. The survey is similar to surveys run by UMTRI on the same topic in 2006 and 2007. TDI clean diesel represents almost 25% of Audi and Volkswagen US sales.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

President Obama later distanced himself from that requirement, remarking afterward “we can actually monitor a lot of what takes place through satellite imagery and so forth. As heads of state convened, an abbreviated document was hurriedly produced to minimize sticking points and shopped around among leaders of developed countries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2009

After a thorough scientific review ordered in 2007 by the US Supreme Court, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposal with two distinct findings regarding greenhouse gases. Before taking any steps to reduce greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, EPA would conduct an appropriate process and consider stakeholder input.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 9, 2009

The vastly popular cash for clunkers programme in the USA received a boost last Friday when President Obama signed into law HR 3435, which provides $2billion in emergency supplemental appropriations for the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Programme.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2009

Both FERC and the Obama administration recognize electric transportation as a key area of focus for the Smart Grid community. This report is an important step forward in that process. George Arnold, NIST National Coordinator for Smart Grid Interoperability. Electric transportation.

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APRIL 29, 2009

For example, President Obama has issued the United States the challenge of having one million plug-in hybrids on the road by the end of 2015—a goal which many keynote speakers supported but also identified significant barriers to achieving. Appleyard, Planning Advisory Service Report Number 546/547, 2007, pp. Earlier post.)].

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The plan assumes carbon intensity will be reduced 10% from 2007 levels by 2023, with reductions beginning in 2014. In 2007, then-US Senator Barack Obama proposed a National Low Carbon Fuel Standard (NLCFS) based on the California LCFS. The final report on an LCFS was published in February 2011. British Columbia. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 19, 2009

Earlier post.). Improvements in system design, including lower catalyst loadings in the fuel cell, are expected to reduce this number further, according to ARB. DOE’s targets are $45/kW by 2010 and $30/kW by 2015.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 7, 2009

I hope you’re as happy and energized as I am about Obama’s impending Presidency and his game-changing energy and environmental appointments. Happy New Year! If you’re not, then you’re probably part of the problems we’ve been having and your unhappiness is something I can live with.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 18, 2009

And so it proved as the subsidy programme helped Ford to its first increase in US vehicles sales since 2007 after it sold 158,838 vehicles in July – a two per cent increase compared to the previous year (see article ). With General Motors and Chrysler also showing signs of modest improvement, all looked rosy. So is this scheme green at all?

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Green Cars News

JULY 8, 2009

The Obama Administration has argued that one should never waste a good crisis. How to Get Climate Policy Back on Course is the sequel to The Wrong Trousers: Radically Re-thinking Climate Policy (2007), its influential LSE/Oxford predecessor. The world has been re-carbonising, not de-carbonising.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Here we are four months later: GM is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy , and its turnaround plan — which gave the Chevy Volt a central role – has gotten a less-than-rave review from the Obama administration. Artificial Moore’s Law for Cleantech: Renewable Standards, by Steps : [.]

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 CATS’ fleet and financial plans call for the replacement 1998, 1999 and 2007 year diesel buses with new diesel buses in fiscal year 2012. billion have been made available for transit improvements throughout the US. The DOT is making $48.1

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JULY 22, 2009

While everyone agrees that Barack Obama has made a huge difference in the future of renewables, attendees were worried about the cap and trade provisions of the 2009 Energy Bill. billion in 2004 to $117 billion 2007 with the first three quarters of 2008 averaging 29% higher than 2007. Cap and Trade Disappointment.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

And the same people who lapped that stuff up like the mindless minions they are, today use words like “socialist&# to describe President Obama and they nod along like bobble heads to every word of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. I learned all bout this in Joe Romm’s great book, “Hell and High Water&# (c) 2007).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. Do the simple math, Obama (ho,ho) and learn just how stupid thou really art.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Since the first report of 3D NAND by Toshiba in 2007, the number of stacked layers has grown from 4 to beyond 200. National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama [right] in 2016. The author [left] received the U.S. Kevin Dietsch/UPI/Alamy. To some degree the devices I’ve described arose out of existing trends.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In a series of tweets Wednesday morning, President Trump said that his administration “ is revoking California’s Federal Waiver on emissions ”—a reference to the waiver of preemption under the federal Clean Air Act granted California by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the Obama Administration in 2012.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 12, 2009

Dr. Hansen wrote both a personal letter to President elect Barack Obama as well as a pdf white paper that you can download and read for yourself and don’t let anyone tell you you can’t. But don’t just take my word for it: Just last week our Climate Consigliere , Doc Jimmy Hansen laid it all out for us.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The only question is a carbon TAX the kind of change Obama believes in. February 17, 2009 9:43 am Link No matter how you slice it we need a carbon TAX to accelerate all these important projects. Based on his campaign rhetoric and what comes out of The White House so far it seems unlikely. — AH2 14.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Early Days in the Obama Administration An Address I'd Like to Hear Global Warming Solutions Included in Transportatio. The Smart Grid Consortium, established in December 2007 by Xcel Energy, will select a community of approximately 100,000 residents to become a Smart Grid City using V2G. Here we go again.or Carbon trading vs t.

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