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Lung Association report highlights health and climate costs of petroleum-based transportation and the benefits of shifting to ZEVs

Green Car Congress

Under this report’s “ZEV Future” scenario, 100% of the new car sales and approximately 65% of all cars on the road are assumed to be ZEVs by 2050 in the 10 ZEV States. Under this scenario, the estimated total health and climate change costs associated with passenger vehicle fleet pollution drops from to $37 billion annually to $15.7

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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

Cars That Think

As coal plants close, they leave behind empty building shells and scores of lost jobs. Plant operators might save on costs, with transmission lines, cooling towers, office buildings, and roads already in place. The firm is planning to start building its reactor around 2026, hoping to deliver power by decade’s end.

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What a month for EVs!

Plug in America

He repeated his commitment from the campaign to building 500,000 charging stations so we can “own the electric car market.” That same day, the administration announced a reversal of the Trump-era rule that California would not be able to set its own rigorous air pollution rules. Much of this must still get passed through Congress.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

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. INTRODUCTION. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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