Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2009

The major climate and energy bill introduced last week by House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Henry Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Edward Markey— H.R. The bill also calls for the harmonization of Federal and California motor vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions 236

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change. One question is who will be responsible for verifying changes in carbon, which raises questions about the role of a regulatory agency for accrediting claimed changes in carbon levels from an activity.

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Carbon Climate Change Climate Emissions 255

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its latest set of proposed standards to reduce emissions of methane and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the oil and natural gas industry. The proposed updates also add emissions reduction requirements for sources of methane and VOC pollution that were not covered in the 2012 rules.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

The Advanced Clean Cars package will help clean our air, help us fight climate change, and perhaps most important for average citizens, save thousands of dollars over the life of the vehicles. The replacement of separate NMOG and oxides of nitrogen (NO x ) standards. with combined NMOG plus NO x standards. 150,000 miles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Mercury (Hg)—the only metal that is liquid at standard conditions for temperature and pressure—is very volatile and highly toxic to humans and animals when inhaled or ingested. Apart from contaminated sites, the mercury pollution detected today is often found in locations very far away from its original source.

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Mercury Emissions 2013 Global 262

Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

Call it Peak ICE—the last hurrah of a technology that governments are ushering off the stage to combat climate change. That front-drive mode gets the car a green light in cities like London and Rome as they begin to bar polluting cars from their downtown areas. The SF90 also beat its previous record holder, the LaFerrari, by 0.7

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

However, the revocation—if it is legally possible, of which there is some question—reprises a conflict between California and the Bush Administration, which denied California a waiver in 2007 requested to regulate automotive greenhouse gas emissions ( earlier post ). Regulatory background.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In a speech on Tuesday at the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting in Washington, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler outlined the Trump Administration’s thinking on national fuel economy standards and California. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2018

And, perhaps most controversially, the Administration is proposing torpedoing California’s ability to set its own standards. The Administration proposal would also block the many other states that use California standards from moving forward. mpg projected requirement in MY 2025 under standards issued in 2012.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Released in 2015 by the Obama Administration EPA, the CPP established the first national standards to limit CO 2 emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power plants (Electric Generating Units, EGUs), with a target of a 32% reduction against a 2005 baseline by 2030. Earlier post.). Comments should be identified by Docket ID No.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Oceans, already expanding from warmth and melting glaciers, would rise, increasing coastal flooding; a chain reaction of climate changes is projected to lead to harsher, more widespread droughts and more powerful storms. Reductions in Emissions. China recently surpassed the US as the world’s biggest producer of GHGs.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Since President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act in 1963, federal regulations aimed at reducing air pollution have gradually grown stronger. Under President Obama, the EPA set the first federal greenhouse gas standard for cars. The Trump administration attempted to throw this process into reverse by watering down the federal standards.

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EPA Standards Emissions Obama 55

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Biden administration has announced three major pro-EV initiatives in recent months—a revamping of the federal tax credits , an infrastructure funding package , and new EPA emissions standards. For me, the most important thing is that there is an urgency across the planet to address climate change. Margo Oge: Yes, absolutely.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 30, 2024

.& If those claims sound familiar, it’s effectively what the Trump administration said when it attempted to roll back Obama-era emission requirements and revoke the California fueling waiver that basically allowed the state to position itself as the de facto federal standard — something we’ve covered several times in the past.

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