Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2018

The state’s latest Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory shows that California emitted 429 million metric tons of climate pollutants in 2016—a drop of 12 million metric tons, or three percent, from 2015. They fell 23% from a peak of 14 metric tons per person (roughly equal to driving 34,000 miles) in 2001 to 10.8

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

For example, rich countries such as Germany can throw billions of dollars at their coal sector to ease their transition pain, offering generous financial aid to lignite-producing regions. This scenario assumes a full global consensus for action on climate change. The result is a win–win for climate and security.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 1, 2013

I’m not going to – ” Someone wearing a goofy Thanksgiving turkey mask leaned forward and loudly whispered “Don’t be a f **g climate chicken. “Well maybe not you, personally… If you help us.” “Do you think we ever hear the truth about what Chevron and Exxon are doing to kill the climate?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2014

Although population-dense cities contribute less greenhouse-gas emissions per person than other areas of the country, these cities’ extensive suburbs essentially wipe out the climate benefits, according to a new study by Christopher Jones and Daniel Kammen at UC Berkeley. Credit: ACS, Jones and Kammen. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

Between 2006 and 2015, California’s GDP per capita grew by almost $5,000 per person, nearly double the growth experienced by the US as a whole. Therefore, it is critical that the next generation of climate policies be designed to deliver steeper reductions. But the effects of these efforts seem to be reaching a plateau.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

The overarching goal of the LCA study is to assess which mode of natural gas-based personal passenger mobility offers the most compelling future environmental benefits, as both the civil power infrastructure and the transportation sector undergo a greening transition from coal and petroleum respectively to natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

As personal mobility increases, average new-car fuel economy (including SUVs and light trucks) will improve as well, rising from about 30 miles per gallon (7.83 Although personal mobility demands continue to increase, higher efficiency and more electric vehicles lead to a peak and decline in light-duty vehicle energy demand.

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Electrek

MARCH 24, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): A climate group report shows fossil-fuel financing continues to rise despite Paris Agreement pledges. The world’s largest coal mining company sets its sights on solar. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

By MaltaGC – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, [link] The UK has marked a historic moment in its energy transition by shuttering the Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station in Nottinghamshire, its last remaining coal power plant. The UK predominantly replaced coal with wind and solar, without increasing reliance on gas. billion in costs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

The transport sector—which depends almost entirely on oil products, with 93% of all the fuel used in the sector being oil-based in 2010—remains the main driver of global oil demand as economic growth increases demand for personal mobility and freight. —WEO 2011. World PLDV oil demand in the New Policies Scenario.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 29, 2024

Photo: PSNH/Flickr Both of New Hampshire’s coal plants are shutting, making New England the second coal-free region in the US. The Bow, New Hampshire-based power station has committed to retiring the coal-burning units at Merrimack and Schiller Stations in New Hampshire, by 2028 and 2025, respectively. Get started here. –ad*

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

And what’s working for the Greenius and Mrs. Greenius will work for the rest of America, even the little brain people who aren’t sure if climate change is man-made or not and probably even the Stepford brainwashed pod people who think Al Gore is a bad man. The Big Dick Cheney Effect. And that kind of vision makes us powerful.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2025

Photo: HANSAINVEST Real Assets Solar generated11%of EU electricity in 2024, overtaking coal which fell below 10% for the first time, according to the European Electricity Review published today by think tank Ember. Solar is growing in every EU country and more than half now have either no coal power or a share below 5% in their power mix.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A youth-led climate lawsuit won another historic decision today, with the Montana Supreme Court upholding a 2023 ruling that the state must consider climate change and environmental protections in the approval process for new energy projects. This is incorrect, as coal is the dirtiest fuel humans use for power.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As the world’s most widely manufactured material, concrete—and especially the cement within it—is also a major contributor to climate change, accounting for around 6 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Other projects are cooking up climate-friendlier recipes for cements.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Manufacturing an EV battery using coal-based electricity results in more than three times the greenhouse-gas emissions of manufacturing a battery with electricity from renewable sources. 70 percent of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, which derived 64 percent of its electricity from coal in 2020.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. First off you might be surprised that our cities have Climate Action Plans, but don’t be.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

In addition, unconventional resources (including biofuels, oil sands, extra-heavy oil, coal-to-liquids, and gas-to-liquids) from both non-OPEC and OPEC sources are expected to become increasingly competitive in the reference case. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Market Background. million barrels per day. per year from 2006 to 2030.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 30, 2011

To continue to rely on petroleum is to accept as inevitable the immense political power of the world’s wealthiest corporations and the resultant pollution, climate change, and war. As aging, filthy coal power stations are retired, they are often replaced with cleaner-burning natural gas generators.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 20, 2024

Two climate activists were arrested in England after they sprayed an orange powder on the monoliths at Stonehenge in what they said was an attempt to bring attention to the climate impact of fossil fuels. Some people found it very personally upsetting,” Mr. Rooke, 66, said in a phone interview. Paul’s Cathedral.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2016

Natural gas remains challenged as a fuel for most personal vehicles. The climate accord reached at the recent COP 21 conference in Paris set many new goals, and while many related policies are still emerging, the outlook continues to anticipate that such policies will increase the cost of carbon dioxide emissions over time.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

He went on to point out that that EVs were “powered, in many cases, by electricity generated from coal” and that they remained “impractical” for drivers. I’ve got some data here that suggests EV Central is the greatest website on the planet, if you’d like to promote that too, please, Sean?

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Energy Institute at HAAS

JUNE 16, 2025

and illuminating look at how a simple policy shift could rattle everything from personal budgets to the red-blue map. His fields of expertise are environmental and energy economics, with a specific focus on the impacts and regulation of climate change and air pollution. In the end, it’s a wonky (this is a compliment!)

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

So what I’m seeing as a result of what you’re telling me If there was a smart politician down south here there is a wide open position for the person who wants to lead the cavalry charge down here. THE HOLY GRAIL OF SOLAR: $3 A WATT, CHEAPER THAN COAL. And at sub $3 you’re cheaper than coal. All of a sudden it was on fire.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Then, in 2009, I was recruited into Google’s effort to make renewable energy cheaper than coal (an initiative we called RE While that last project didn’t pan out as hoped, I learned a lot from it. I grew up in Ontario, Canada, which achieved a climate-friendly electric grid in the 1970s by deploying nuclear power plants.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Industrialised countries such as the US and the UK currently emit by far the most carbon per person, with emissions from the likes of China and India also rising sharply, although these are generally accepted because of these countries’ need for economic growth. Tags: The Green Piece Copenhagen Copenhagen Climate Change meeting.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Humans consume more than 1 ton of concrete per person per year—10 12 kg of cement annually—and the cement industry releases 9kg of CO 2 for each 10kg of cement produced, emitting 36 Gt globally annually. Pulverized coal is often used as the flame fuel, and fuel is also added to heat and drive the calciner and preheaters.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

China just connected its largest single-capacity solar farm built on a former coal mining area, which is in the Gobi Desert, to the grid. million tons of standard coal each year and cut carbon dioxide emissions by roughly 4.7 With a massive installed capacity of 3 gigawatts (GW) and over 5.9 This huge project will save about 1.71

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

China just connected its largest single-capacity solar farm built on a former coal mining area, which is in the Gobi Desert, to the grid. million tons of standard coal each year and cut carbon dioxide emissions by roughly 4.7 With a massive installed capacity of 3 gigawatts (GW) and over 5.9 This huge project will save about 1.71

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

I’m probably the last person you’d expect to be passionate about electric vehicles (EVs). Most folks don’t care about air quality, and roll their eyes if you even hint at climate change. In two of the counties, I am often asked if I’m part of “that climate group.” Climate groups focus on overall sustainability.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Prairie Solar project, expected to come online in summer 2026, will be built near a former coal mine. Julie Wormser, Cambridges chief climate officer, put it this way: Preventing carbon emissions in Cambridge or Illinois has the exact same impact on the global climate. Get started here.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Ember’s analysis also finds that solar capacity additions in 2024 will likely surpass the entire global increase – 540 GW – in coal power capacity since 2010. This accelerating pace brings ambitious climate targets closer, but continued rapid progress is still needed to meet the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C Get started here.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 27, 2024

For example, Wayne County Public Schools in West Virginia, a region historically dependent on coal, plans to install 10,000 solar panels across all its schools by 2025. Pairing solar with battery storage is another trend that helps schools boost climate resilience. Get started here.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Hague had previously announced its intent to be climate neutral by 2030 , so the city finds this to be a necessary step towards that goal. The Hague wants to be climate neutral by 2030. Your personalized solar quotes are easy to compare online and you’ll get access to unbiased Energy Advisors to help you every step of the way.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

With this offer, we’re making it easier for everyone to go electric by providing our EV customers with an expert Energy Advisor who can personally walk them through the process of outfitting their homes with the proper charging, energy storage and collection equipment using our Hyundai Home Marketplace.”

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In 2024, solar power generation in the EU surpassed coal for the first time, making up over 10% of the regions electricity mix. Dave Jones, insights director at global energy think tank Ember, said: The Age of Electricity has to be the Age of Clean Electricity to realize the cost, security, and climate benefits of electrification.

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