Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
For its part, EPA is withdrawing the Clean Air Act preemption waiver it granted to the State of California in January 2013 as it relates to California’s GHG and ZEV programs. California’s ability to enforce its Low Emission Vehicle program and other clean air standards to address harmful smog-forming vehicle emissions—i.e.,
Green Car Congress
MARCH 26, 2010
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced that the “cool cars” regulation, which aimed to reduce the need for air conditioning by reducing the heat gain of vehicles parked in the sun ( earlier post ), will cease. In a statement released on 25 March, ARB Executive Officer James N.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 24, 2017
This would be a massive undertaking, involving the conversion of hundreds of thousands of square miles—at its most ambitious, more than the combined land area of Texas and California—to sugarcane fields. The proposed expansion of sugarcane production is within the area that can be legally converted. Gigatons yr −1.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) filed a legal challenge to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) with the US District Court, Eastern District of California, Fresno Division. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.). By regulating the fuel pathway of transportation fuels—i.e.,
Green Car Congress
JUNE 30, 2009
The US Environmental Agency (EPA) has granted California’s waiver request enabling the state to enforce its greenhouse gas emissions standards (Pavley I) for new motor vehicles, beginning with the current model year. California requested from EPA the waiver required for implementation of the Pavley regulations in December 2005.
Baua Electric
APRIL 18, 2024
Washington State is No 3 in the US for renewable generation overall, behind California and Texas. No 1 is cats, No 2 is windows, and ultimately it’s climate change. Washington is legally committed to achieving net zero by 2045, so they’ll ultimately have to figure it out.
Green Car Congress
JULY 24, 2011
Systems such as pledge-and-review set up in Copenhagen and Cancun are a useful way forward in the absence of an internationally legally-binding agreement, but individual Governments must provide urgent political leadership—that is not happening at present. The Green Climate Fund set up in Cancun marked one way in achieving this.
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