Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

They further agreed to reduce air pollutant emissions by aligning air pollutant emission standards for light- and heavy-duty vehicles and corresponding ultra low-sulfur fuel standards by 2018. Short-lived climate pollutants. In addition, the SmartWay freight transportation program will be extended to Mexico.

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Mexico Canada Standards Light 199

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2017

These include cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars and zero emission vehicles, low-carbon fuels, renewable energy, waste diversion from landfills, water conservation, improvements to energy efficiency in homes and businesses, and a Cap-and-Trade Program. Increased stringency (reducing carbon intensity 18% by 2030, up from 10% in 2020).

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California Cleaner Emissions Pollution 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. The Better Buildings Challenge targets helping American commercial and industrial buildings becoming at least 20% more energy efficient by 2020. of greenhouse gas emissions to 3% by 2020. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change.

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Obama Cleaner Climate Fuel Economy 249

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. Breakthroughs in battery technology, carbon sequestration, and other energy technologies that result in a five-fold improvement over current technology could literally change the world.

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Climate Hydrogen Los Angeles Climate Change 101

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The 2013 Scoping Plan update lays out the remaining steps to the 2020 limits set by AB 32. California’s transportation system accounts for about 38% of the state’s GHG emissions and is the primary source of smog-forming and toxic air pollution in the State. Transportation. —Draft Scoping Plan Update. Low-Carbon Fuels.

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Transportation Emissions California Ozone 273

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The Scoping Plan describes the comprehensive range of efforts California must take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and meet the state’s long-term goals to combat climate change. What is needed to continue the prescribed course of action to 2020? Recommended transportation actions beyond 2020.

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Climate Change 2020 Climate Transportation 220

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

Up to 77% of the world’s energy supply could be met by six key renewables by mid-century under the most optimistic scenario if backed by the right enabling public policies, according to a new report by more than 120 researchers working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 50 Exajoules per year.

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Renewable Supplies Global Energy 218

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the details of their long-anticipated energy and climate change legislation on Wednesday, 12 May. Farmers are exempt from the carbon pollution compliance obligations in the bill. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy.

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Gas-Electric Climate Gas Energy 210

Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

The Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme initiated by the government in March 2020, aims to significantly enhance domestic manufacturing capabilities across various industries. Key policies and their objectives include the National Electric Mobility Mission 2020 (NEMMP 2020) that was launched in 2012.

India 52

India Manufacturer Batteries Battery 52

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The New Coal: Plastics and Climate Change analyzes data from ten stages of plastics production, usage, and disposal and finds that the US plastics industry is releasing at least 232 million tons of greenhouse gases each year—the equivalent of 116 average-sized coal-fired power plants. million tons of GHG each year.

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Coal Industrial Industry Climate Change 236

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

LNG as fuel eliminates SO x emissions, significantly reduces NO x and particulate matter, and also reduces GHG emissions—although not to the levels that would be required for addressing climate change. DNV GL expects significant growth in hybrid ships, such as harbor tugs, offshore service vessels, and ferries after 2020.

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Alternative Fuels Fuel Gas-Electric Mariner 231

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2015

California has not taken full advantage of opportunities to increase its in-state production of biofuel, despite state policies that encourage biofuel consumption, according to a policy paper by the Climate Change and Business Research Initiative at the UCLA and UC Berkeley law schools. —Ethan Elkind, a co-author of the report.

Pollution 150

Pollution Economy Production Climate Change 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

Funding priorities through the ARFVT Program support fuel and vehicle development to help attain the state’s climate change policies. Replacing older, high-polluting buses and vehicles with new CNG buses and vehicles can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. million ZEVs on the state’s roads.

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Green Vehicles California 2014 2013 295

Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

EVs will/will not create more pollution than they eliminate. Scaling is hard Let me be very clear: Transitioning to electric vehicles and renewable energy to combat climate change are valid goals in themselves. Technological change is hard, social change even harder. Join the crowd. C above preindustrial levels.

Climate Change 145

Climate Change Climate Grid United States 145

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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EPA Oil Gas Industrial 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The statute, amended by Assembly Bill 109 (Núñez, Chapter 313, Statutes of 2008), authorizes the Energy Commission to develop and deploy alternative and renewable fuels and advanced transportation technologies to help achieve the state's climate change policies. The eight projects are: Electric Vehicle manufacturing. $1

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Gas-Electric San Jose Gas California 236

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

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. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. the biggest cuts anywhere in the world.

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Grid Green Electric Cars Cars 47

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Oceans, already expanding from warmth and melting glaciers, would rise, increasing coastal flooding; a chain reaction of climate changes is projected to lead to harsher, more widespread droughts and more powerful storms. The European Union (EU) is committed to a 20% cut in emissions by 2020. Reductions in Emissions.

Climate Change 244

Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions 244

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. The program will reduce emissions fifteen percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244

Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2022

For me, the most important thing is that there is an urgency across the planet to address climate change. Margo Oge: The Trump administration did finalize the standards in 2020, [but] they got legal challenges. There are a lot of important elements in this legislation, and climate change is one of the big elements.

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EPA Emissions Standards Legal 102