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Canada and California to work together on cleaner transportation

Green Car Congress

Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and the Chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, today signed a new cooperation agreement to advance cleaner vehicles and fuels. Canada is developing a Clean Fuel Standard that will cut emissions by 30 million tonnes in 2030.

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#EVmyValentine: Your Creative Odes to Electric Vehicles

Plug in America

Eliminating vehicle emissions results in improved air quality, which means better health outcomes and a slowing of climate change. We’re pushing for strong clean car standards because they put us on a path to a zero-emission future–one that’s better for all of us.

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Governors of 11 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States Agree to Work Together Toward Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Fuels; Timeline for Developing a Potential Low Carbon Fuel Standard for Region

Green Car Congress

A LCFS (Low Carbon Fuel Standard) program is a market-based, fuel-neutral program to address the carbon content of fuels. Signing the Memorandum of Understanding were the Governors from Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.

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What’s In It For Me?

Creative Greenius

I gave the Carson City Manager what has now become my standard reply. And because my parents cared more about eduction for their children than almost everything else, they moved us from our apartment in Brooklyn in 1968 when I was 11 to bucolic Westfield, New Jersey. . “What’s in it for me?”

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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

Cars That Think

A specific challenge would-be-conversions must face is that the NRC’s standards—both for atmospheric pollution and for the amount of radiological material a reactor can release—are much tighter than federal standards for coal plants.

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EPA Grants California Vehicle GHG Regulations Waiver

Green Car Congress

The US Environmental Agency (EPA) has granted California’s waiver request enabling the state to enforce its greenhouse gas emissions standards (Pavley I) for new motor vehicles, beginning with the current model year. The request was subsequently denied in December 2007. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. Earlier post.)

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The State of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Electrification

Driivz

Electrification of medium- and heavy-duty (MHD) vehicles is an important component of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and mitigating climate change. However, that is likely to change. Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont are adopting the same rules.