article thumbnail

Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

Cars That Think

Dronning Louise’s Bro (Queen Louise’s Bridge) connects inner Copenhagen and Nørrebro and is frequented by many cyclists and pedestrians every day. Behavioral change is hard How willing are people to break their car dependency and other energy-related behaviors to address climate change?

article thumbnail

Cummins to acquire Meritor in $3.7B deal

Green Car Congress

Climate change is the existential crisis of our time and this acquisition accelerates our ability to address it. Cummins expects the acquisition of Meritor to be immediately accretive to Cummins’ adjusted EPS and to generate annual pre-tax run-rate synergies of approximately $130 million by year three after closing.

article thumbnail

State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

Green Car Congress

The document is a detailed draft technical review of potential environmental impacts associated with the segment of the pipeline in the US, including: impacts from construction, impacts from potential spills, impacts related to climate change, and economic impacts. What Keystone XL would carry.

article thumbnail

National Academies report finds US interstate highways need major overhaul; calls for 20-year blueprint for action

Green Car Congress

The report calls for a 20-year “blueprint for action,” which includes creating an “Interstate Highway System Renewal and Modernization Program,” increasing the federal fuel tax to help pay for it, and allowing tolls and per-mile-charges on more interstate routes. National Academy of Sciences.

Congress 246
article thumbnail

California ARB releases discussion draft of plan to cut GHG by 40% by 2030

Green Car Congress

In his January 2015 inaugural address, California Governor Jerry Brown identified five key climate change strategy “pillars,” which recognize that several major areas of the California economy will need to reduce their emissions to meet California’s ambitious climate change goals. To date, approximately $3.4

article thumbnail

Elon Musk slams California’s $8 per kW monthly utility charge plan for solar owners

Teslarati

Those opposed to the proposal warned that the initiative could undermine the state’s efforts to address climate change. If the plan were to be fully approved, homeowners with solar systems could expect their homes to be moved to the new structure once their systems have been connected for 15 years.

Solar 145
article thumbnail

Analysis concludes that current transportation policy in most US states will likely worsen GHG emission trends in US

Green Car Congress

Most states do not make any effort at all to connect. transportation policy with climate change and energy goals, and some put in place systems that effectively sabotage these goals. transportation, and ensure state fuel taxes can support all transportation modes.