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Peoria Welcomes Electric Transit Buses ElBae & Friends

CleanTechnica EVs

By Alyssa Brown & Selena Kyle This is the fifth in a series of blogs celebrating the grant projects funded through our Clean Air Act settlement with the owners of the E.D. Edwards coal-fired power plant outside Peoria, Illinois. Originally published by NRDC.

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No More Leg Day: South Carolina Squat Ban Goes Into Effect Soon

The Truth About Cars

People still alter diesel trucks to “roll coal,” and loud exhausts – not always a bad thing – remain a problem for some communities. Owners have had six months to get things straightened out since the ban was initially announced in November 2023, but similar efforts to prohibit other idiotic mods haven’t stopped some from trying.

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Natural EV capitalism

Electric Auto Association

I even got him to buy a Tesla,” said Martinson, explaining that Hirt was an advisor and co-producer of the ARP film, Nation in Transition , an examination of the coal-to-renewables transition on the Navajo Nation and across northern Arizona. I take EV road trips and blog about sustainability wherever I go,” he said. “I

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What Are Zero Emission Day and National Drive Electric Week?

Blink Charging

There are four guidelines to follow: Refrain from using or burning oil, gas or coal. However, if an EV is charged using electricity that is generated by burning coal or in some other way that generates fossil fuel emissions, those emissions would be associated with that EV’s well to wheel emissions. of total U.S.

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Shouldn’t We ALL Be Going to PowerShift 2009?

Creative Greenius

I know I should be there contributing, blogging and shooting pictures, marching and lobbying and networking with my green brothers and sisters in arms. I can’t understand why there aren’t rings of young people blocking bulldozers and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants.” - Al Gore.

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GM awarded two EPA ENERGY STAR Partner of Year awards

Green Car Congress

Eliminated the use of coal at Wentzville, Mo., Specifically, the EPA recognized these communications initiatives: Published energy and climate-related posts on its environmental blog, making up more than half of the editorial content in 2014. Collaborated with utility companies on energy projects and funding. assembly plants.

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Our Energy crisis is self made in europe

EV Info

Europe has made its own bed, disassembling dispatchable fuel diversity by closing well-operating coal and nuclear power plants. Europe’s renewable and natural gas obsession has paved the way for the loss of an astounding amount of coal and nuclear power capacity. In the U.K., Europe has wedged itself between a rock and a hard place.

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