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Apex Clean Energy ordering 19 electrified F-series pickups from XL Fleet

Green Car Congress

Apex Clean Energy has ordered 19 electrified Ford F-series pickup trucks from XL Fleet, including ten plug-in hybrid electric and nine hybrid electric systems for pickups in its service fleet, for delivery in the second quarter of 2021.

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Diesel-Killing Locomotive Of The Future Runs On Solar Power

CleanTechnica EVs

This rolling sheet of solar panels may not look like much, but it could help spark a solar power revolution in the railroad industry.

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@MayorOfLA Is Ready! Garcetti Comes Out Gunning For Gas – Scattergood, Haynes & Harbor Power Plants To Stop Shoving Pollution Down Citizens Throats, Calls For Shutdown Of Aliso Canyon. #MerchantsOfDoubt In Fossil Fuel Industry Argue For More Climate Destruction

Creative Greenius

Garcetti was ready for clean power NOW. Green groups like Communities For A Better Environment, Food & Water Watch and Sierra Club had worked for this critical win for many year and it was beautiful to be there to see their leaders gobsmacked by the great news.

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California cap-and-trade spending doubles to $1.4 billion in 2018; xEV rebates, affordable housing, wildfire prevention, public transit

Green Car Congress

From rebates for electric and plug-in vehicles to energy efficiency and solar installations that are reducing home energy costs, more than 125,000 individual projects were completed in 2018. Overall, 60 new clean school buses were delivered to rural school districts throughout the state. Nearly $2 billion of the $3.3

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Double trouble

Electric Auto Association

Nebraska EVA chapter works in tandem with the Sierra Club. Outreach event sponsored by Eastern NE EVA and the Nebraska Sierra Club. Additionally, the Sierra Club, with Eastern NE EVA’s support, was influential in electing a majority of environmentalists onto the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) Board of Directors.

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Ohio Gov. signs legislation that defines natural gas as “green energy”

Teslarati

After all, green energy refers to energy sources that do not involve the use of fossil fuels, such as solar and wind. Neil Waggoner, an advocate with the Sierra Club, noted that the legislation would expand the drilling in state parks. House Bill 507 has been very controversial, especially among environmental advocates.

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SDG&E seeks approval to build charging infrastructure to support ~3,000 medium/heavy electric vehicles

Green Car Congress

To clean up the air in areas suffering from the highest levels of tailpipe emissions, 40% of the installations will be targeted for vehicles and equipment that are based in or travel through disadvantaged communities. One cutting-edge element of the proposal is an electric school bus vehicle-to-grid pilot.

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