Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Promoting the use of zero-emission vehicles will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution at the nation?s The statute authorizes the California Energy Commission to develop and deploy alternative and renewable fuels and advanced transportation technologies to help attain the state’s climate change policies.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2015

million to the City of Los Angeles to set up a pilot carsharing program for electric vehicles in disadvantaged communities. The funding for the project comes from fees collected under the state’s climate change law, AB 32. Following a competitive proposal process, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has offered $1.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2016

California’s Environmental Justice Advisory Committee ( EJAC ) is launching a series of statewide meetings to provide residents with the opportunity to meet with local advocates and state officials to share concerns and to provide input on addressing air pollution and how to help California meet its 2030 greenhouse gas reduction targets.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 21, 2009

So you know how much I love seeing Congresswoman Harman call these very issues out in the powerful statement she released today with her reaction to the just concluded Copenhagen climate talks. Nowhere is this truer than in California, which has long been at the vanguard in the nation on progressive climate policy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

While the existence of higher CO 2 levels overs cities—CO 2 domes—has been known for more than a decade, their effects on local air pollution has up to now not been explored. As such, reducing locally emitted CO 2 may reduce local air pollution mortality even if CO 2 in adjacent regions is not controlled. Mark Jacobson.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

President Obama today established a Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience to advise the Administration on how the Federal Government can respond to the needs of communities nationwide that are dealing with the impacts of climate change. Executive Order.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

To achieve the best outcomes, the brief suggests, plug-in vehicle adoption should typically be focused on HEVs and PHEVs by city drivers in mild-climate regions with a clean electricity grid, such as San Francisco or Los Angeles. Further, drivers should not be encouraged to charge at night in coal-heavy regions.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2009

We’ve always planned on retiring and spending the rest of our lives right here, but these days we’re worried about what climate change is already doing – and about the far more serious consequences headed our way. We’re already getting used to the fires, smoke and related air hazards here in the L.A.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

C40 is about action, and I commend Bogota for taking this decisive step to implement innovative new transport policies that will improve the quality of life in the city and address climate change. —Jay Carson, CEO, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. Bogota’s project will improve local air quality and noise pollution.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Los Angeles and Ventura Counties were next on the list. In response to methane’s significant contribution to the state's emissions and the requirements of Senate Bill 1383, California is taking a number of other steps to reduce methane emissions from various sources as part of the Short-lived Climate Pollutant strategy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The governing boards of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach unanimously approved the 2017 Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) Update , ushering in a new era of aggressive clean air strategies for moving cargo through the nation’s busiest container port complex. The group’s meetings will be open to all who wish to attend.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Although viewed as a potential target in the global effort to reduce climate change, atmospheric black carbon particles absorb significantly less sunlight than scientists have predicted, according to a new study by an international team of researchers, published in the journal Science. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2009

Further, controlling soot will significantly reduce particulate air pollution deaths. The first found that globally-emitted CO 2 increases US air pollution deaths by about 1,000 each year per 1.8 °F, The study found that CO 2 domes increase air pollution deaths by 50-100 per year in California, with most occurring in Los Angeles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The cities/metro areas studied were: Los Angeles County; Greater Toronto; Geneva Canton; Greater Prague; Cape Town; Denver City and County; New York City; Greater London; Barcelona; and Bangkok. The next two highest cities are also both North American: Los Angeles (13.0 t e CO 2 /cap.) and Toronto (11.6 t e CO 2 /cap.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The Scoping Plan describes the comprehensive range of efforts California must take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and meet the state’s long-term goals to combat climate change. AB 32 requires the Scoping Plan to be updated every five years. Recommended transportation actions beyond 2020.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. Afterward several members of Congress went outside for test drives in a plug-in hybrid brought to Washington by Cal-Cars.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Organic aerosol (OA) in the atmosphere is detrimental to human health and represents a highly uncertain forcing of climate change. We assess these results in the context of other studies during the past decade and discuss their significant implications for air pollution measurement, modeling, and control. —Gentner et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

Funding priorities through the ARFVT Program support fuel and vehicle development to help attain the state’s climate change policies. These charging sites will be located at 7-Eleven convenience stores, and will provide a charging network in Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

However, the subsequent election of Barack Obama as president intervened, and the EPA under the new administration issued California the waiver it sought, as well as a subsequent waiver in 2012 to support California’s major reworking of its pollution measures into the Advanced Clean Car Rules ( earlier post ). Regulatory background.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today, with Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Air Resources Board, led a coalition of 24 state attorneys general and the cities of Los Angeles and New York in filing a lawsuit against the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Earlier post.).

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You can participate in beach cleanups, ride your bicycle with large groups in parades or march in protests against coal-fired power plants, polluters and planet-pummeling profiteers. But what you cannot do at any Earth Day event – or any other day’s events – is change the sense of urgency of the U.S. La Di Da. . La Di Da.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2019

Other airports that could see 100 or more daily SST LTOs include Los Angeles, Singapore, San Francisco, New York-JFK, Frankfurt, and Bangkok. The aircraft could double the area around airports exposed to substantial noise pollution compared to existing subsonic aircraft of the same size.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Among these fuels natural produces the least of the “dirty byproducts&# , then oil and then coal which produces the most unwanted pollutants.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You can participate in beach cleanups, ride your bicycle with large groups in parades or march in protests against coal-fired power plants, polluters and planet-pummeling profiteers. But what you cannot do at any Earth Day event – or any other day’s events – is change the sense of urgency of the U.S. La Di Da. . La Di Da.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The objections they raised for years -- "no one is interested, no one would plug in, the technology is too complex, the benefits are minimal, its just shifting the pollution from the tailpipe to the smokestack, theres no demand for these cars" -- still show up occasionally, but are by and large history. GM Press Release ).

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Today, here in the South Bay of Los Angeles where I live, we have all the dots you’d ever need to connect the crisis level of global warming to the urgent action needed locally. A third of Himalayan ice cap doomed no matter what climate action is taken. Garcetti called for “a Green New Deal for Los Angeles.”.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Think of driving any vehicle in the hot Los Angeles summer time. The mines in Canada where the nickel & cadmium are mined is one of the most polluted places on Earth. Then he just about crapped in his pants when the friggin thing kept running out of a charge at the most inoportune time.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

But in a year that has seen both a worsening recession and state budget crisis, residents’ support for urgent action on climate change has slipped and a partisan divide on the issue has widened. But in the current economic climate their support has dropped a notch. Mark Baldassare, president and CEO of PPIC.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Ironically, Governor Abbott targeted renewable energy just as The New York Times was writing that Texas’ grid trouble is a sign of disruption to come as climate change induces more and more extreme weather events. Democrats now control the White House and both chambers of Congress. Credit: Los Angeles Times.

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