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California ARB awarding $1.6 million to LA for low-income EV carsharing pilot program

Green Car Congress

The grant will fulfill a key mandate of SB 1275, the Charge Ahead California Initiative, enacted last year to make clean transportation more widely available, particularly in low and moderate-income neighborhoods. The funding for the project comes from fees collected under the state’s climate change law, AB 32. Earlier post.).

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California ARB approves cap-and-trade amendments; linking with Ontario

Green Car Congress

AB 617 directs CARB to work with local air districts on the deployment of community-focused air quality monitoring networks, as well as the development and implementation of community emission reduction plans in the neighborhoods most burdened by poor air quality.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future? A Small Country with Large Heating Needs Big problems demand big solutions, and there is perhaps no bigger 21st-century problem than climate change.

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Electrifying Chicago’s Urban Residential Neighborhoods: 3 New Community Chargers

EV Match

It is exciting to see the variety and affordability of electric vehicles growing at the rate that they are, but we know it’s not enough. John’s Episcopal Church in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood. Until we bring infrastructure to the places where people live and work, we won’t achieve true accessibility. .

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Inside The Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. First off you might be surprised that our cities have Climate Action Plans, but don’t be.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. But the difference is that only a minority of Americans today can afford to buy a new car. The EV charging spectrum—not to coin a pun —has several components, you're asking about road trips first.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. But the difference is that only a minority of Americans today can afford to buy a new car. The EV charging spectrum—not to coin a pun —has several components, you're asking about road trips first.