Plugs and Cars

JULY 19, 2007

And the grid is getting cleaner and more renewable every year. You can dig around the websites of NRDC, UCS and the Sierra Club and come to understand that an electric path would be best for all of us, but their advocacy has not reflected the science.

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Plug-in EPRI Plug Sierra 100

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 22, 2021

A workhorse diesel gets cleaner and more efficient. It has worked since 2018 with General Motors to incorporate DSF into more than a million of the company’s V8-engine models, including the Cadillac Escalade, Chevrolet Silverado and Suburban, and GMC Sierra and Yukon.

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Diesel Emissions Fuel Economy Yukon 93

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

Sierra Club: “These roll-backs from Scott Pruitt mean Americans will pay more at the pump while our air gets dirtier, just so Pruitt can help the corporate lobbyists and polluters who give him favors and marching orders. ”. NRDC: “Backing off now is irresponsible and unwarranted.”.

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EPA Standards Emissions Light 199

Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

A year ago Ford nabbed a significant endorsement from the Sierra Club for its limited edition Mercury Mariner hybrid (29/35 mpg - gasoline only) and a promise of 250,000 hybrids by 2010. Cars have gotten cleaner, but there are more of them. Sierra Club. Ford has now done an abrupt about face.

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Ford Hybrid Sierra San Jose 100

Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

Aqua Metals has developed a process that it says is much cleaner, more efficient and more cost-effective. But the start of a cleaner way of recycling is that you grind them up and separate the materials, and you create this material called black mass, which looks like a black sandy material. It’s a great sustainability story.

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Building Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 95

Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

The environmental Big Three - Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Union of Concerned Scientists - remain on the sidelines of the plug-in discussion. And now Rick Waggoner of GM, creator and killer of the EV1, has again breached the industry taboo on connecting to the cleaner, cheaper, ubiquitous electric grid.

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Plug-in GM Plug Hybrid 100

Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Aqua Metals has developed a process that it says is much cleaner, more efficient and more cost-effective. But the start of a cleaner way of recycling is that you grind them up and separate the materials, and you create this material called black mass, which looks like a black sandy material. It’s a great sustainability story.

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Building Batteries Battery Charging 52

Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 23, 2010

After spending time in the Gulf, the Sierra Club's new executive director, Michael Brune, ponders getting off oil in "Create," his Sierra Magazine commentary. As detailed in "The Latest From the Labs," page 38, even the dirtiest electricity is cleaner than internal combustion. Source: Sierra Magazine ].

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Sierra Coal Fuel Economy Cleaner 100

Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

What was most welcome by this advocate of transportation electrification was the statement by Sierra Club California's Bill Magavern. And of course the electric infrastructure is already in place and getting cleaner and more renewable. He questioned the continued preference for hydrogen and fuel cells in the Plan.

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Sierra California Electric Cars Alternative Fuels 100

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2017

Due to technological innovation initiated by the standards, the cars speeding off dealership lots at a record pace are cleaner and more efficient than ever before. —Sierra Club Legislative Director for Transportation Andrew Linhardt. A new administration is no reason to shift progress to reverse.

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EPA Standards Light Fuel Economy 230

Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 19, 2007

Bush started the day signing the energy bill that Nancy Pelosi called "earth-shattering change in terms of energy policy" and Sierra Club's Carl Pope said "is a clean break with the failed energy policies of the past and puts us on the path toward a cleaner, greener energy future."

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EPA Tax Credit Sierra Wind 100