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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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Just accounting for miles driven , however, BEVs cars and trucks appear cleaner than ICE equivalents nearly everywhere in the U.S. Behavioral change is hard How willing are people to break their car dependency and other energy-related behaviors to address climate change?

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How Engineers Can Help Protect Earth From Worsening Climate Change

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Fortunately, we still have a narrow window of opportunity to alter the Earth’s climate path, and I believe we can do it. Climate change is a global societal crisis that is causing devastating consequences. Lives and businesses are being severely affected, and the cost of recovering after each event continues to mount.

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NTSB Chair questions safety impact of heavy EVs

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Ultimately, to manage climate change, the world needs to stop emitting greenhouse gases from vehicles and power plants. A focus on driving lighter, safer, cleaner and less can ensure a better future for everyone. Electrifying vehicles adds yet more weight. —Shaffer et al.

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

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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 —Bonnie Holmes-Gen, senior director of Air Quality and Climate Change with the American Lung Association in California. billion by 2050.

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ADB Study Finds Annual Economic Losses in Southeast Asia from Climate Change Could be More Than Twice the Global Average

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The mean cost of cost of climate change for the four countries—Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam—under a “business-as-usual” scenario and if market and non-market impacts and catastrophic risks are all considered could be equivalent to losing 6.7%

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Santos reports successful CO2 capture and storage injection trial in Moomba CCS project

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We will need an approved methodology for CCS to be in place with the Clean Energy Regulator before we take a final investment decision on our Moomba CCS Project because carbon credits are essential to make it stack up economically with the cost of abatement still at around A$30 per tonne.

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SoCalGas reduces CNG price by $0.26 per gallon at its fueling stations by using LCFS credits

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Natural gas costs significantly less than gasoline or diesel per GGE. per gallon in February, whereas the average cost of gasoline in California was $3.24 per gallon, and the average cost of diesel was $3.73 For example, the average pump price at utility compressed natural gas stations was $2.37

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