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Study: Reducing Future Transportation CO2 Emissions to Kyoto Protocol Levels Will Require Combination of Vehicle Technology and Smart Growth

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Percent change in median CO2 by scenario relative to 2000. A Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning study on climate change concludes that “smart growth” combined with the use of hybrid vehicle technology could reduce cities’ carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions significantly by 2050. Stone et al. 2009) Click to enlarge.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

A large coalition has formed around the issues of national security, combating climate change, saving on fuel costs and increasing business for American agriculture. NGO's The campaign initially began by focusing on the 50 largest cities in the U.S., but it has grown far beyond this point.

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The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly

Cars That Think

The perturbations caused by transitioning EVs to scale are not market-driven, but government policy-driven to meet a climate-emergency. and especially California,” he says, “has come at the cost of exacerbating the air, water and soil pollution of Asian societies.”