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Denbury Undertakes Midwest CO2 Pipeline Feasibility Study

Green Car Congress

The feasibility study is expected to determine the most likely pipeline route, the estimated costs of constructing such a pipeline, and review regulatory, legal and permitting requirements. This program, instituted in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, is designed to spur technological innovation in fossil fuel development.

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Final US mpg rules through 2031 go easy on gas trucks, SUVs

Baua Electric

As the International Energy Agency last week underscored, SUVs emit about 20% more CO2 than cars , whether they’re electric or not. They follow EPA rules set in March, and those keep to a familiar framework, breaking vehicle targets down into designated “footprints,” as well as passenger cars versus light trucks.

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Compliance credits for EVs undergoing reduction 

Electric Auto Association

The generous multiplier was designed to incentivize the rapid development of zero emission powertrains, and the strategy has been very successful. Credits represent actual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and are expressed as megagrams of CO2 (Mg = one million grams).

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ITF: measures to decrease road freight CO2 emissions

Green Car Congress

A new brief published by the International Transport Forum (ITF)—an intergovernmental organization at the OECD with 59 member countries— identifies proven measures that decrease road freight’s CO 2 emissions. Improved and extended data collection is critical to designing and re-assessing these policies.

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What Are The Benefits of Driving an Electric Car?

Drive Electric

EVs are designed with their batteries spread evenly across the bottom of the car, creating an incredibly low centre of gravity with weight equally distributed across both axles. Since 1st July 2019, it has been a legal requirement for new EVs to be fitted with noise-making devices behind the bumpers. Batteries to ICEs.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

The Copenhagen timeline was designed to allow signatory countries two years to hash out details of their respective compliance issues so that a replacement protocol could be ratified and “entered into force”, or made operational internationally, by the time the Kyoto Protocol expires.

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Tesla 2024 Annual Shareholder Meeting transcript: June 13, 2024

Teslarati

We design our manufacturing processes to use less water per vehicle than the industry average, and for the third year in a row, we power our Supercharger network with 100 percent renewable energy. That is why we sourced responsibly. We presented a similar proposal in 2021. 90 percent of the S&P 500 have a declassified board.

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