2018 Climate Change Coal United States 
Green Car Congress
JUNE 12, 2019
This year’s edition highlights the growing divergence between demands for action on climate change and the actual pace of progress on reducing carbon emissions. in 2018, faster than at any time since 2010-11. Coal still accounted for the largest share of power generation at 38%. —Bob Dudley, group chief executive.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Thacker Pass is the largest known lithium resource in the United States. In 2018, Lithium Americas completed a pre-feasibility study (PFS) on a two-phase project with a production capacity designed to reach 60,000 tpa of battery- quality lithium carbonate (Li 2 CO 3 ) and 46-year mine life. Earlier post.). Thacker Pass.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 5, 2019
The findings are outlined in three new papers published in Earth System Science Data , Environmental Research Letters , and Nature Climate Change. over 2018 emissions. The decline of coal use in the European Union and United States is overshadowed by surging natural gas and oil use around the world, according to the researchers.
Green Car Congress
MAY 11, 2020
in 2018, the only annual increase in the past five years. The changes in US energy-related CO 2 emissions in 2019 offset the increase in 2018. CO 2 emissions from coal fell by 14.6%, the largest annual percentage drop in any fuel’s CO 2 emissions in EIA’s annual CO 2 data series dating back to 1973.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 22, 2019
In the United States, emissions associated with the consumption of petroleum fuels—motor gasoline, distillate, jet fuel, and more—have consistently made up the largest portion of CO 2 emissions. Natural gas surpassed coal to become the most prevalent fuel used to generate electricity in the United States in 2016.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 25, 2013
Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
MAY 14, 2018
The study, involving researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and colleagues in China and the United States, investigated how complex supply chains are distributing energy-intensive industries and their CO 2 emissions throughout the global South. 2018) “China’s “exported carbon” peak: Patterns, drivers, and implications.”
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