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Canada and California to work together on cleaner transportation

Green Car Congress

Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and the Chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, today signed a new cooperation agreement to advance cleaner vehicles and fuels. Canada is currently completing a mid-term review of its light duty vehicle regulations.

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MIT Report Outlines System-Oriented Coordinated Polices for Reduction in Light-Duty Vehicle Petroleum Use and Emissions

Green Car Congress

The recommended policies would require manufacturers to make more fuel-efficient cars; encourage consumers to buy them; and then drive them in a fuel-efficient manner. We emphasize that this policy portfolio is not a substitute for an economy-wide carbon management policy (such as a carbon tax or cap-and-trade system).

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What EPA vehicle standards are and what they mean for you

Plug in America

Will everyone need to buy an EV? They can also go a long way toward improving air quality and reducing climate-changing emissions. They can also go a long way toward improving air quality and reducing climate-changing emissions. Not everyone will need to buy an EV– even by 2032. 2032 is eight years away.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

You pay your taxes on-line. You pay your corporate taxes on-line. Why don’t you look at your bill and see the Nuclear Decommissioning taxes on your electric bill. Well let’s see, they want to do a million roofs by 2016 and they’re up to 70,000 now. I’m not asking them for money, I’m asking them to change a rule.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

This does not mean that you will not be able to buy that Cadillac or Corvette you have been admiring. It is only a matter of economics motivated by incentives or taxes. This effectively means that the owner of a new PHEV can buy a new vehicle and most of its fuel for the next 20 years. Conclusions.

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Broad opposition to EPA, NHTSA proposed freeze of GHG, CAFE regs

Green Car Congress

A large component of the Administration’s rationale for the change hinges on its analysis of the cost of clean technology, the resultant savings to motorists, and an associated reduction in injuries and fatalities due to more motorists presumably buying newer, safer cars because the cost would be less. —The ICCT.

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EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

Green Car Congress

It’s one thing for the American public to directly subsidize electric vehicles through tax incentives. Of the roughly 57,000 households that received the EV tax credit in 2016, nearly 80 percent had at least a six-figure income. —Andrew Wheeler.