Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2009

EPA also found that the California program meets legal requirements regarding the protectiveness of public health and welfare as well as technological feasibility. The resulting new national standards will cover model years 2012-2016, and will require an average fuel economy standard of 35.5 Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

power from renewable sources—wind, solar, geothermal, biomass or landfill gas, hydropower, and marine and hydrokinetic—for retail electricity suppliers beginning at 6% in 2012 and gradually rising to 25% in 2025 and continuing at that level through 2039. The draft establishes a Renewable Portfolio Standard—i.e., light duty vehicles—e.g.,

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Climate Standards Carbon California 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2009

More advanced developing countries would have to reduce their emissions by 20% below baseline (without climate policy) and those on a lower development level by 10%. The least-developed countries would be exempt from any legally binding emission reduction efforts, up to 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

For private households, electricity rates were nearly 40% higher than the European Union average in 2012; for industrial facilities, 20%. The regulations for plants that are already in operation, however, would remain unchanged to guarantee investment security and legal certainty. Climate Change Europe Policy Power Generation'

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 11, 2010

And since I am indeed The Greenius and I have legally laid claim to this decade, preempting all others, I can confidently lay this on you and you can take comfort knowing I’m on the case and will not let you down. And ready for the carbon credits solar owners will be getting when California institutes Cap and Trade in 2012.

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2010 Grid Climate Change Solar 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2015

Sources already subject to the 2012 NSPS requirements for VOC reductions that also would be covered by the proposed 2015 methane requirements would not have to install additional controls, because the controls to reduce VOCs reduce both pollutants. EPA required green completions for hydraulically fractured natural gas wells in its 2012 rules.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

The city attorney asked me if I would dismiss my case if the city of Torrance would change their rules. I said I would consider it, but that I was really hoping to establish a precedent, legally speaking, beyond Torrance. I want to change the industry here because I deal in a lot of cities, a LOT of cities.

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Solar Installation California Building 210

Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

In addition, the lack of relevant legal or industry expertise is increasingly worrisome. This may become a major operational and legal problem at the federal level as thousands of new employees are hired across multiple federal departments and agencies to carry out the Biden Administration’s environmental policies.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2009

The OAL ensures that agency regulations are clear, necessary, legally valid, and available to the public. By the 2012 timeframe, most sources of corn ethanol will not help regulated parties achieve the mandatory GHG reductions under the program. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Fuels Policy.

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Carbon California Standards Fuel 225

Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2018

mpg projected requirement in MY 2025 under standards issued in 2012. But the evidence shows that freezing CAFE standards is hard to justify on economic, social, environmental, or legal grounds. Reduction from 56% to 3% in the percentage of hybrid vehicles needed to comply in MY 2030. 176 billion in societal net benefits.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Wheeler said that compared to keeping the 2012 standards in place, the preferred option in the SAFE proposal would reduce the price of new vehicles by thousands of dollars. Since President Trump’s election, California has essentially carved out its own climate change policy, focusing on reducing the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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Fuel Economy Standards California EPA 170

Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

To get an idea of how the process of reinvigorating US emissions and fuel economy standards is likely to proceed, Charged spoke with Margo Oge, who served as the Director of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality from 1994 to 2012. California legally should be able to do their own standards under the Clean Air Act.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. As Senators Graham, Kerry and Lieberman try to resuscitate the climate change bill by introducing a revised bill in mid-to-late April, twenty-three U.S. Coverage: In 2012–50% of emissions. Overview of WCI.

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