Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2020

California’s latest greenhouse gas data shows that while the state continues to stay below its 2020 target for emissions, there is much more work to do to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. Source: California Air Resources Board (ARB). Per capita GHG emissions in California have dropped from a 2001 peak of 14.0

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JUNE 8, 2018

Scientists from Emory University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Air Resources Board teamed to analyze satellite data to determine the 15-year trend of PM 2.5 pollution in the state. is especially burdensome in California and accounts for the greatest percentage of health impacts attributable to air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

The California Air Resources Board announced a new statewide grant and loan program to help lower-income consumers across California get into the cleanest new and used cars on the market. The Clean Vehicle Assistance Program, run by the Oakland-based nonprofit Beneficial State Foundation, was launched with a $5-million CARB grant.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

There is strong consumer demand for Clean Cars 4 All (CC4A) which incentivizes lower-income California drivers to scrap their older, high-polluting cars and replace them with clean cars. Drive Clean in the San Joaquin, San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District: 2,894 participants. miles per gallon.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

The California Air Resources Board announced a new program that will fund a variety of projects promoting zero-emission transportation options for students, parents and staff members served by school districts in California. —CARB Executive Officer Richard Corey.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

On Monday, California Governor Edmund G. and Mexico’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Undersecretary Rodolfo Lacy and Mexican National Forestry Commission Director General Jorge Rescala Pérez signed an agreement to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2019

In a coordinated effort to accommodate the ever-increasing demand for the transportation of goods while also reducing its impact on society, Volvo Group collaborated closely with several key California stakeholders to demonstrate Eco-Drive technology as part of its involvement in the Zero Emission Drayage Truck Demonstration Project.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Reducing airborne pollution at the Ports of L.A. An additional 8 trucks will be delivered in 2021 as part of the Zero and Near Zero Emissions Freight Forwarding (ZANZEFF) project sponsored by the state of California. —Andrew Lund, chief engineer, Toyota Motor North America Research and Development.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The report, Clean Air Future: Health and Climate Benefits of Zero Emission Vehicles , was produced by the American Lung Association in California. 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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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The California Air Resources Board approved $28 million in Air Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) funding to support two popular statewide incentive programs aimed at bringing the cleanest vehicle technologies to low-income and underserved communities. billion to date for clean-transportation projects in California.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2017

The State of California, San Bernardino Council of Governments (SBCOG) and partners Daylight Transport and BYD Motors celebrated the arrival of the first of 27 electric yard and service trucks for freight and rail yards in three disadvantaged communities in San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Fontana. million in cash and in-kind matching funds.

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MAY 6, 2021

Phase one of the project consists of eleven electric school buses, four of which were funded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), two by the California Energy Commission and an additional five by San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. Funding of $4.94

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The program, known as The Rural School Bus Pilot Project, is a partnership between the North Coast Unified Air Quality Management District (AQMD) and the California Air Resources Board. All California public schools and California public entities that own school buses are eligible to apply.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2020

Werner Enterprises, a premier transportation and logistics provider, is testing a 2019 Peterbilt 579 EV Class 8 electric truck for a year on a dedicated account in Southern California. Funding for the tractor was provided by the California Climate Investments (CCI), the state’s climate change-fighting, cap-and-trade program.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

California Governor Edmund G. In addition to collaboration on air quality measures, the agreement encourages joint efforts to protect public health, promote clean and efficient energy, protect the environment and natural resources and support sustained economic growth.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

The BYD 8Y electric yard trucks are part of what the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has termed a bold and transformative effort to replace the use of all diesel-powered freight equipment within one of Frito-Lay’s largest facilities.

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MARCH 7, 2018

The California Air Resource Board (CARB) is awarding $7 million to CALSTART to develop a Class 8 truck that will achieve a 90% reduction in NO x along with a 15-20% fuel efficiency improvement. California’s ultra-low NO x emissions standard is 0.02 grams per brake horsepower-hour (g/bhp/hr).

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MAY 4, 2017

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced that California Climate Investments in zero-emission vehicles have reached $599 million since 2013, putting hundreds of thousands of ultra-clean cars, and entire fleets of zero-emission trucks and buses on California roads and highways.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The steps we take today to lower emissions will improve air quality and mitigate climate impacts for generations to come, all while increasing access to cleaner car choices,” said Governor Phil Murphy. It joins California, Vermont, New York, Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, Virginia, Rhode Island, Maryland, and Connecticut.

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APRIL 11, 2013

The California Energy Commission approved $678,889 to projects that will boost the number of alternative fuel vehicles on the state’s roadways. Compared to older conventional petroleum-fueled buses, these buses produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, improving the environment and reducing passenger exposure to harmful pollutants.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Most of the immediate project benefits will accrue in the San Joaquin Valley, an economically disadvantaged area with some of the highest pollution burdens in the country, as evidenced by CalEnviroScreen scores within the worst five percent in the state. It represents a historic project.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced up to $205 million in grants for projects designed to accelerate the adoption of clean freight technologies and reduce air pollution caused by the movement of goods throughout the state. Partner match: $5.8 Partner match: $5.8

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JUNE 25, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has awarded $20 million in grants to accelerate California’s transition to zero-emission off-road equipment in the freight, agriculture and waterborne mass transit sectors. million; Grantee: Center for Transportation and the Environment). million; Cap-and-Trade grant: $6.5

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For example, in 2021 residents of California welcomed the United state’s first electric fire truck. EVS: How They Are Helping Us In developed countries like the US, transportation is the main cause of climate pollution. Not only do vehicle and truck emissions harm the environment, but they also harm human health.

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Plug in America

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A vote for Proposition 30 is a vote for clean air in California. Efficient and inexpensive electric vehicles are crucial to California’s goals to address climate change and reduce air pollution. Prop30 was drafted by environmental groups, firefighters, and labor orgs to fight the two biggest sources of air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has put the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP) on hold after receiving voucher requests for its entire $142-million budget. Along with record demand for new funding, California is also seeing record-breaking HVIP vehicle deliveries.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Emissions reductions (per km of travel) from the Margrethe Maersk as a result of the State of California fuel sulfur regulation (gray), vessel speed reduction program (white) and combined (black). Credit: ACS, Lack et al. Click to enlarge. EFs for particulate organic matter decreased by 70%. Black carbon (BC) EFs were reduced by 41%.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The California Air Resources Board approved a $533-million plan to fund clean car rebates, zero-emission transit and school buses, clean trucks, and other innovative, clean transportation and mobility pilot projects. AQIP is an incentive program for mobile sources of air pollution.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Chevron Refinery, El Segundo, California. So let’s take a look, straight from our friends at the California Air Resources Board* , at the Top Emitters of Greenhouse Gases in California, for 2008. Here they are, folks, the very Hot List of Global Warming’s Worst Merchants of Death. But don’t worry.

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Disgraced former HP executive Carly Fiorona who is running as the bootlicking sycophant of dirty polluters and big oil for a US Senate seat in California was caught shoveling more cash into her pocketbook for her campaign last week by my heroes from Greenpeace.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2017

California Climate Investments is awarding a $12.5-million —California Air Resources Board (CARB) chairman Mary D. The cap-and-trade program also creates a financial incentive for industries to invest in clean technologies and develop innovative ways to reduce pollution.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2010

Your Greenius is sorry to report that there’s been nothing but more bad news on the climate action scene in the past couple of weeks. Tags: Environmental Politics carbon producers climate change environment environmental legislation fossil fuels greenwashing AB 32. They want to take the money and run.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2012

FD stoves should be considered for dissemination as improved cookstove programs worldwide begin to consider climate metrics as selection criteria.Our results also have significant implications for health and climate impact studies, as impact estimates based on ND stoves would underestimate the BC reduction potential from ICs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The city of San Diego, California has begun using Neste renewable diesel in its vehicle fleet. By transitioning to renewable diesel, we’re significantly reducing the pollution caused by city vehicles that serve the public on a daily basis. —Major Kevin Faulconer. the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

SunLine Transit Agency in California has awarded New Flyer of America—the US subsidiary of New Flyer Industries—with a contract for five Xcelsior fuel cell-electric forty-foot, heavy-duty transit buses. million passengers per year. The NFI Group has over 50 years of experience in manufacturing zero-emission buses (ZEBs).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Markey of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee on Tuesday released a draft of far-reaching energy and climate legislation that targets job creation, promotes renewables and energy efficiency, and places limits on emissions of greenhouse gases. Chairman Henry A. Waxman of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Chairman Edward J.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Inspired by the Japanese concept of sato-umi —the convergence of land and sea where human and marine life can harmoniously coexist—Honda has established the Honda Marine Science Foundation , a new initiative to address marine ecosystem restoration and the impact of humans and climate change on oceans and intertidal areas.

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