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BMW Group makes sustainability and efficient resource management central to its strategic direction

Green Car Congress

I firmly believe the fight against climate change and how we use resources will decide the future of our society—and of the BMW Group. In this way, the BMW Group aims to ensure its partners fight climate change with the same determination and impact as it does itself.

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Massachusetts sets state GHG emissions limit for 2020 at 25% below 1990 levels, releases plan with additional measures, including Pay As You Drive auto insurance

Green Car Congress

Secretary Bowles set the limit today at the statutory maximum of 25 percent and released the Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2020, which contains a portfolio of policies designed to meet the limit. and costs for gasoline, accidents, and. PAYD would convert a large fixed annual. premium into a variable cost based on. fewer accidents.

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BREAKING NEWS: Exxon/Mobil Ordered Out of Torrance, Guilty of Greenhouse Gas Pollution

Creative Greenius

“Pack Up Your Toxic, Fossil Fuel Factory With Its Climate-Changing Products & Get Out of Town By 2020!&# Consider this fair and legal warning, world’s largest and most polluting oil company - I’m giving you 10 years to pack up and hit the road. Greenius Rules. They’ve got other priorities.

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Ethanol Groups File Suit Challenging Constitutionality of California Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Green Car Congress

In a statement describing their action, the two groups said: The LCFS contradicts the sound judgment of Congress when it passed the 2007 Energy Independence Security Act and singled out the importance of domestic ethanol for our nation’s environment, energy security, and economy. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Fuels Policy.

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

Charged EVs

Federal emissions and fuel economy regulations have been instrumental in encouraging (or coercing) automakers to produce EVs, and to make their legacy vehicles cleaner. Charged : The body of federal and state air pollution regulations encompasses both emissions and fuel economy standards, and generates an astounding number of acronyms.

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