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CARB releases 2022 draft Scoping Plan update

Green Car Congress

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has released the draft 2022 Climate Change Scoping Plan —the third update to the state’s initial 2008 Scoping Plan. It achieves this goal by building on and accelerating regulations, incentives, and carbon pricing that have been in place for a decade and a half.

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Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

Green Car Congress

Policies to entice consumers away from fossil-fuel powered vehicles and normalize low carbon, alternative-fuel alternatives, such as electric vehicles, are vital if the world is to significantly reduce transport sector carbon pure-emissions, according to a new study. —McCollum et al. McCollum et al.

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy and EV Modern Life

Setec Powerr

Our principal goal should be to mitigate problems that are global in scale, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, virus transmission, and invasive species. A critical element of the transition is to reduce our use of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are expensive and environmentally destructive.

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What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

The Arab oil embargo and price increases of the ‘70s pushed the U.S. Today, less than 2% of American electrons are produced with oil. Diverse, American sources of energy have made the electric grid essentially resilient and secure, immune to petroleum’s price volatility or politics. If it were 1976, he would be right.

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