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UK unveils new plan to cut NO2; sale of new conventional gasoline and diesel cars to end by 2040; focus on local action

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Despite this, an analysis of more than 1,800 major roads show that a small number of these—81 or 4%—are due to breach legal pollution limits for NO 2 , with 33 of these outside of London. The UK assesses air quality, as well as legal compliance with these obligations, via a combination of monitoring data and modeling.

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

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If we can develop the technology to capture the carbon pollution released by coal, it can create jobs and provide energy well into the future. And we want to get up 10 commercial demonstration projects, get those up and running by 2016.

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California Air Resources Board unanimously adopts Advanced Clean Cars Package

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The current California program constitutes a separate set of rules with minor variations due to separate legal structures but is designed to parallel the proposed federal joint rulemaking the Obama administration announced last summer. The goal is to accelerate a transition already in process and to make sure it succeeds.

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

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That program is in effect right now and will remain so for the foreseeable future. But the evidence shows that freezing CAFE standards is hard to justify on economic, social, environmental, or legal grounds. They are also about twice the costs estimated by EPA ($894) and NHTSA ($1,245) in their 2016 Technical Assessment Report.

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

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Wheeler said that the Administration will begin taking steps in the very near future to establish one set of national fuel-economy standards. (On Wheeler adduced four reasons to support that argument: price, safety, environmental impact and incentivizing the purchase of new, cleaner, safer cars. —Andrew Wheeler.

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

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Federal emissions and fuel economy regulations have been instrumental in encouraging (or coercing) automakers to produce EVs, and to make their legacy vehicles cleaner. Oge led the team that authored the 2010-2025 Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards, and described the process in her 2016 book, Driving the Future.

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