Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2011

Similar to past EIS practice, NHTSA plans to analyze environmental impacts related to fuel and energy use, emissions including GHGs and their effects on temperature and climate change, air quality, natural resources, and the human environment. In particular, NHTSA requests: Background. Earlier post , earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Battery electric cars emit less greenhouse gases and air pollutants over their entire life cycle than petrol and diesel cars, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report. The EEA has also published a new briefing on the environmental and climate impacts of transport. g CO 2 /km) since 2012.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2018

An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. A reduction of soot particles through driving restrictions for old diesel vehicles can therefore significantly reduce the health impact, as studies by LfULG and TROPOS have shown based on the low emission zone in Leipzig 2017. Environ. ,

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

That’s me on January 16, 2017, with my brand new Chevy Bolt EV Premier edition in my garage at home. Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2017

In March, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced that EPA intends to reconsider its final determination issued on 12 January 2017 which recommended no change to the greenhouse gas standards for light duty vehicles for model years 2022- 2025. Earlier post.) mpg in MY 2021.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Water covers 72 percent of the Earth’s surface, its volumes host 80 percent of biodiversity and play a pivotal role in global phenomena, such as climate change. In a nutshell: everything required for real-time follow-up and extensive surveillance of submarine environments. It is just as efficient in more natural environments.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a determination under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from certain types of aircraft engines contribute to the pollution that causes climate change and endangers Americans’ health and the environment.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Under this scenario, the estimated total health and climate change costs associated with passenger vehicle fleet pollution drops from to $37 billion annually to $15.7 For the average driver, every tank of gas burned costs $18.42 in hidden health and climate costs. billion by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2012

The Government of Canada has proposed regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from new on-road heavy-duty vehicles and engines. The Canadian regulations are aligned with the US fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emission standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles announced in August 2011. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

A number of factors are pushing Saudi Arabia to raise its crude-oil production capacity, but the wide range of potential outcomes suggests that such an increase is a risky strategy for the kingdom and the global environment, according to a new article by an expert from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. —Krane (2017).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Alberta, Ontario) also require that the renewable fuels utilized meet a specific greenhouse gas (GHG) performance standard. natural gas and propane); and solid fuels (e.g., Some jurisdictions (e.g., A clean fuel standard would address a broad suite of fuels, which could include liquid fuels (e.g., petroleum coke).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. 50% clean power target.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

Neste has been exploring ways to contribute to improving palm oil industry’s environmental performance, particularly how to further reduce greenhouse gas emission from palm oil production. The filtering also reduces the need for other physical or chemical treatments that have formerly been required before the discharge to the environment.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2018

The High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft ( HALO ) is equipped with a total of 20 measurement instruments to record the various gas and particle emissions of major cities and the related reaction products. We are conducting low-level visual flights and can only fly in cloudless areas. —DLR research pilot Stefan Grillenbeck.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

Dwindling sea ice is opening new shipping routes through the Arctic and shipping activity in the Arctic is expected to rise as oil and gas development increases and as ships take advantage of shorter trans-Arctic routes from Asia to Europe and North America. Bottom: Black carbon emissions (tonnes) in the Arctic, 2015. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Even less is understood about the potential risks to people and the environment—could the particles deplete the ozone layer, for example, or significantly alter the weather? Critics say that pursuing the technology is a dangerous distraction from the more essential task of rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. cancel the launch.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2012

grams in 2010 (the latest year for which figures are available) and a mandatory target of 175 grams in 2017. The proposals would amend two existing regulations establishing binding requirements for manufacturers to meet the 2015 mandatory target for cars and the 2017 target for vans. Europe and the US. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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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. Reduce absolute lifetime greenhouse gas emissions from newly sold products by 25% (science-based target). Cummins Inc.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Today, the art of turning heat from burning gas, nuclear fission, Earth’s core, the sun, and other sources into useful energy underpins modern life. The first arises from atoms vibrating against one another as typically occurs in a solid; the second arises from bulk movements of particles, such as gas molecules in air.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2009

The major climate and energy bill introduced last week by House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Henry Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Edward Markey— H.R. The bill also calls for the harmonization of Federal and California motor vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2017

Mohammad Masnadi and Adam Brandt used decades-long time-series data from twenty-five globally significant oil fields (>1 billion barrels ultimate recovery) to model greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from oil production as a function of time.Depletion requires increased energy expenditures in drilling, oil recovery, and oil processing.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

California is not on track to meet the greenhouse gas reductions expected under SB 375 for 2020, with emissions from statewide passenger vehicle travel per capita increasing and going in the wrong direction, according to a new report published by the California Air Resources Board (ARB). —“2018 Progress Report”.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2010

Starting with 2012 model year vehicles, the rules together require automakers to improve fleet-wide fuel economy and reduce fleet-wide greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 5% every year: NHTSA has established fuel economy standards that strengthen each year reaching an estimated 34.1 Earlier post.). Final Regulatory Impact Analysis.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2017

This key milestone in our advanced biofuels program confirms our belief that algae can be incredibly productive as a renewable energy source with a corresponding positive contribution to our environment. Advancements as potentially important as this require significant time and effort, as is the case with any research and development project.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

metals such as mercury, cadmium, lead and hexavalent chrome) that pose a known threat to health or the environment. Its goal is to be solvent-free, not just to replace a given solvent with a slightly less toxic alternative, said Bob Proctor, Manager, Environment and Cost Planning, Honda North America. SOCs are chemical (e.g.,

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Can advanced semiconductors cut emissions of greenhouse gases enough to make a difference in the struggle to halt climate change? Such a change is actually well underway. When the device is on (when 6 V are applied to the gate), electrons flow from the drain to the source in a flat region called a two-dimensional electron gas.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Scientists inform us that today’s transportation sector is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, but how clean are lithium-ion batteries? This is 2 to 3 times lower than the 150-200kg of CO2eq estimate measured by the same researchers in 2017. Green Energy Ohio plant in Dayton, OH.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Scientists inform us that today’s transportation sector is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, but how clean are lithium-ion batteries? This is 2 to 3 times lower than the 150-200kg of CO2eq estimate measured by the same researchers in 2017. Green Energy Ohio plant in Dayton, OH.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In August 2018, EPA and US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to adjust the Congressionally-mandated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards. Earlier post.). —Andrew Wheeler.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

BREAKING NEWS: CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD JUST RELEASED BLOCKBUSTER GREENHOUSE GAS REPORT OF STATE’S WORST POLLUTERS AND GLOBAL WARMERS. Click on the breaking news above and you’ll finally get to see the greenhouse gas numbers on our two local climate changing refineries that I’ve been demanding for a year now.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Under President Obama, the EPA set the first federal greenhouse gas standard for cars. 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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