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Opinion: Politicians Are Lying About Biden's EPA Rule

The Truth About Cars

The Biden Administration dropped a new rule limiting tailpipe emissions from passenger vehicles yesterday, and you know what that means. Rather, it requires carmakers to meet tough new average emissions limits across their entire product line. The Biden administration and EPA are NOT BANNING NON-ELECTRIC CARS.

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Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

Green Car Congress

An offset is a measurable reduction, avoidance, or sequestration of GHG emissions from a source not covered by an emission reduction program. In this way, offsets would complement the more traditional emissions trading that can occur between two covered sources. what would have happened anyway).

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

Cars That Think

As legislation worked its way through Congress, Jenkins’s team provided elected officials, staffers, and stakeholders with a running tally of the possible trade-offs and payoffs in emissions, jobs, and economic growth. The target of reducing emissions by 50 percent by 2030 was established through an executive order in 2021.

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Major truck OEMs form PACT to advocate for EV infrastructure development – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Vehicle OEMs are investing large sums to advance the transition to electric vehicles, even as they lobby governments to water down the emissions regulations that are forcing that transition. The pursuit of contradictory goals is a basic fact of human nature, and the commercial truck industry is no exception.

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Study finds that gaps in research on topics critical to the global biofuels industry warrant caution; a call for more interdisciplinary work

Green Car Congress

Network diagram showing the number of articles in common between all pairs of topics in the analysis except geographic regions. A new study by researchers from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finds substantial gaps in the amount of research on the numerous critical topics relevant to the global biofuels industry.

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NHTSA issues Environmental Impact Statement scoping notice for MY 2022-2025 CAFE standards; seeking comments on “preferred alternative”

Green Car Congress

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.) Background.

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How Corporations Can Help the U.S. Reach its EV Goals

Clean Fleet Report

Many are beginning to convert their fleet vehicles, acknowledging their role in climate change. And, thanks to a little-known Environmental Protection Agency stipulation and government incentives, businesses have every reason to reduce employees’ commute emissions as well.