Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2020

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $5,959,842 million in research funding to nine institutions to improve air quality models used to simulate ozone, particulate matter (PM), regional haze, air toxics, and emerging pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

States signing the MOU are: California, Connecticut, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. Medium- and heavy-duty trucks are a major source of harmful smog-forming pollution, particulate matter, and air toxics.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Thanks to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s (IIJA), there is $5 billion available in funding for clean school buses. Empowering clean transportation for children We’ll start with the most important reason; electric school buses are healthier for the children.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The Statement of Intent comes as the California Air Resources Board (ARB) holds its first meeting to consider a proposed Advanced Clean Trucks regulation that would establish sales and reporting requirements for zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. —CARB Chair Mary D.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

Such reasons include advantages to the electrical grid such as load balancing and energy storage, increased jobs and economic development, reduced stormwater pollution and consumer savings. The article points to the 2019 Supreme Court case of Virginia Uranium v.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2018

All the participating jurisdictions are members of the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI), a regional collaboration of Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia that seeks to improve transportation, develop the clean energy economy, and reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The other seven states—Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—account for more than 135,000 vehicles. Zero-emission vehicles are vital to Massachusetts’ efforts to cut air pollution from the transportation sector and stimulate growth in the clean energy economy.

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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 Massachusetts: $2.9

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2021

Nonprofit organizations may apply if they provide pollution reduction or educational services to diesel fleet owners or promote air quality and clean transportation. Eligible applicants include regional, state, local or tribal agencies, or port authorities with jurisdiction over transportation or air quality.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

These fuels are very clean with effectively no pollution-causing sulfur or aromatic hydrocarbons. Furthermore, it also allows for Technip’s participation during the execution stage of future GTL projects. GTL technology is a process for converting natural gas into petroleum products such as naphtha and diesel fuel.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

A coalition of 11 states filed a lawsuit to compel the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promptly to revise national air quality standards for air pollution involving soot. The EPA had failed to meet an October 2011 deadline for revising the existing standards. EPA last revised the standards in 2006.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

“ California is rolling out the carpet for Californians who choose these ultra-clean hydrogen powered electric cars and for the companies that make them ,” said Air Resources Board Chairman Mary D. efforts among California, New York, Maryland, Connecticut, Oregon, Massachusetts, Vermont. —Chairman Nichols. and Rhode Island.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed Clean Air Act standards to reduce CO 2 emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants (electric utility generating units, EGUs). In the decision in Massachusetts v. Background. In 2012, EPA issued a proposed standard for EGUs. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. UC Berkeley’s proposed technology has the potential to greatly reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions while reducing noise pollution at airports across the country. billion in private sector follow-on funding to commercialize clean energy technologies. leadership in electric flight.

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Blink Charging

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Between the United States federal government, state, and local governments; power companies and utilities; and air pollution control districts, there are hundreds of incentives for fleet owners to switch from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs). More details on the Clean School Bus Rebate can be found here.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the US’ existing fleet of diesel engines. Grant funds may be used for clean diesel projects that use: EPA-verified retrofit technologies or certified engine configurations.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The City of Easthampton, Massachusetts announced in April that it is transitioning its city-owned vehicle fleet from gas to electric, and will be the first city to offer an EV adoption benefit to employees who convert. Reach its EV Goals first appeared on Clean Fleet Report. The post How Corporations Can Help the U.S.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 8, 2022

Even though only 10% of vehicles on US roads are medium- and heavy-duty trucks, they are responsible for the majority of hazardous air pollutants and nearly 25% of the greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Ozone pollution near Earth’s surface is one of the main ingredients of summertime smog. Determining effective strategies for mitigating surface ozone (O 3 ) pollution requires knowledge of the relative ambient concentrations of its precursors, NO x , and VOCs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for CO 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new power plants. The proposed standard provides flexibilities for new power plants to phase in technology to reduce carbon pollution: New power plants that use CCS would have the option to use a 30?year

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2016

A new high-level white-paper from clean transportation industry group CALSTART shows that US companies that develop and manufacture high-efficiency, low-carbon technologies for heavy-duty vehicles are ready to support more efficient trucks and buses. This report showcases what we know from experience: the U.S.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 14, 2022

Highland has promised to provide Massachusetts with electric school bus subscriptions on par with diesel prices through 2025. Senators Alex Padilla and Raphael Warnok are among those trying to pass the Clean Commute for Kids Act. Maryland already leased 326 buses from Highland.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2009

In April 2007, the Supreme Court concluded in Massachusetts v. The Agency has also received public comments seeking the addition of GHGs to the pollutants covered by the new source performance standard (NSPS) for several industrial sectors under section 111 of the CAA.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

This strategy, which has attracted over $10 billion in additional private capital investment, is designed to accelerate commercial deployment of coal technologies—particularly CCS—and to position the United States as a leader in the global clean energy race. DOE Investment: $1,000,000; Recipient Cost-Share: $226,000.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

Bradley & Associates, commissioned by the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) and the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), examines key drivers of EV adoption in the US, Europe and China, with an emphasis on vehicle charging scenarios and infrastructure. Source: “Electric Vehicle Grid Integration”. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2011

Emerging technologies and pollutants of concern. HEI is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1980 as an independent research organization to provide high-quality, impartial, and relevant science on the health effects of air pollution. John Heywood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Source: HEI. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 18, 2022

As the clean energy transition is made, Cooke says, “We’re talking about a massive reshaping of our economy at the same time.” Where is the clean energy? Massachusetts, for example, has set a goal of at least 750,000 to 1 million EVs on the road by 2030; it currently has some 51,000, of which 31,000 are battery electric.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

When the air resources board relaxed its rules in 2003, it allowed car companies to receive credits toward zero-emission standards by building so-called partial-zero-emissions vehicles — super clean cars that produce little or no smog. This high-pollution moment is referred to as a cold start.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2017

After considering the Advanced Clean Cars Midterm Review ( earlier post ), the California Air Resources Board voted unanimously on Friday to continue with the vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards and ZEV program for cars and light trucks sold in California through 2025. Midterm Review of Advanced Clean Cars Program. Earlier post.)

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 29, 2023

Updated guidance from the EPA has resulted in the most aggressive vehicle pollution standards the United States has seen so far. requirements under the Administrative Procedure Act and the Clean Air Act." An internal memo was released on Wednesday, stating that the regulations introduced by the U.S.

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Plug in America

APRIL 30, 2021

While he didn’t mention EVs by name, we know that there is no way to get there without a dramatic surge in electric vehicles fueled by clean energy. 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.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

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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Electric Auto Association

MAY 20, 2021

Massachusetts Republicans have joined with Democrats to set an example in emissions control By Mark Reburke: President, Drive Electric Cars New England. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker. Putting the brake on regional pollution Also in December, Massachusetts, along with Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Washington D.C.,

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, the proposal is not incorrect in asserting that California's Clean Air Act waiver gives it a large amount of influence over national vehicle policies. California's zero-emission rules [claims it] will cut by 25 percent smog-causing pollution from light-duty vehicles by 2037. percent of U.S. vehicles sold in 2022 that were EVs.

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