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#EVmyValentine: Your Creative Odes to Electric Vehicles

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of Energy to Yale and MIT , that EVs are better for the environment from cradle to grave.) Eliminating vehicle emissions results in improved air quality, which means better health outcomes and a slowing of climate change. Here are some of our staff’s favorite valentines, including one from Percy, our team’s new favorite pup.

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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

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If current rates of decline continue through 2020, the state will need to reduce emissions at a rate of 4.97% each year in the decade between 2020 and 2030, and produce even steeper declines in the period from 2030 to 2050, if it is to meet current climate goals. But the effects of these efforts seem to be reaching a plateau.

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

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Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. As Senators Graham, Kerry and Lieberman try to resuscitate the climate change bill by introducing a revised bill in mid-to-late April, twenty-three U.S. Western Climate Initiative (WCI). Representatives Henry A.

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