Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

President Obama used his last State-of-the-Union (SOTU) address of his term to outline four main elements of a blueprint for an “ economy that’s built to last: an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values. ”. —President Obama.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The Obama Administration will push an energy plan that potentially includes production of oil shale, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told a group of Western governors assembled in Washington at the National Governor’s Association meeting. The Salt Lake Tribune. Let’s put everything on the table.”. Colorado Gov.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2009

” “ Some have even suggested that coal state representatives in Washington should block any advancement of national health care reform legislation until the coal industry’s demands are met by the EPA, ”, wrote Byrd. West Virginia is home to about 22,000 coal miners, down from 62,500 in 1979.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, low-cost carbon dioxide capture from coal-fired power plants. The Energy Department’s $7 million investment—leveraged with recipient cost-share to support approximately $9.4

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a letter to President Obama describing six key components the advisory group believes should be central to the Administration’s strategy for addressing climate change.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2010

Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

President Obama announced that the Department of Energy has offered conditional commitments for a total of $8.33 But energy leaders and experts recognize that as long as producing carbon pollution carries no cost, traditional plants that use fossil fuels will be more cost-effective than plants that use nuclear fuel.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 9, 2009

on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 to unfurl a banner that challenges President Obama to show leadership on global warming. Obama is at the G8 meeting in Italy to discuss the global warming crisis with other world leaders. In Italy, the coal plant protesters were still going as night fell. House last month. In the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2013

This new capacity will give us the computational muscle to accelerate the development and design of large scale chemical looping reactors and carbon capture technologies that will allow us to use fossil fuels more cleanly. —Secretary Moniz. —Secretary Moniz.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

The National Hydrogen Association (NHA) and US Fuel Cell Council (USFCC) issued a joint statement criticizing the cuts in the hydrogen and fuel cell vehicle program in the Obama Administration’s FY 2010 budget request for the US Department of Energy. Fuel cell vehicles are not a science experiment. Earlier post.).

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 11, 2013

They hold President Obama in even lower esteem and yeah, being black has a whole lot to do about it. And now Lordy Lord, many of these very same folksy folks have been pulling the exact same con man tactics on behalf of the oil coal and gas industries. . Maybe because they never have or maybe because they believe it’s worth it.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

million additional cars on US roads are likely as a result of EPA inaction on finalizing the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) rules, according to a new white paper issued by The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). new coal-fired power plants. new coal-fired power plants. Increased greenhouse gas emissions equal to 4.4

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2016

Freight hauling by trucks is a significant source of energy consumption and pollution around the world, and the fuel savings promised by the technology advances under this CERC-TRUCK program will help to combat climate change while advancing low-carbon economies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

Alternative fuel combustion. A range of advanced technologies developed under Topic Areas 1-4 will be deployed on a truck to demonstrate improvements in vehicle fuel economy and emissions reduction using one of the following approaches: modifying/utilizing an existing “off-the-shelf” or prototype truck; or building a full prototype truck.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

US President Barack Obama said the US will cut net greenhouse gas emissions in the US by 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025. The US and China jointly announced greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets. China’s target to expand total energy consumption coming from zero-emission sources to around 20% by 2030 is “notable”, the White House said.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 7, 2009

One of the other big business groups the WSJ is talking about is the motley group of US Senators and US Congress members who got their money directly from the oil, gas and coal industry. They went “all in&# with the fossil fuel industry and are one of the most shameless carbon collaborators in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

This follows the memorandum of understanding signed between CPECC and USTDA in November as part of the US-China Clean Energy Announcements made by President Obama and President Hu in November 2009. The United States and China are two of the largest consumers of coal for industrial applications and power generation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2009

California Air Resources Board Chairman Mary Nichols met with US Energy Secretary Steven Chu in May and followed up that meeting with a letter, urging the continuation of funding to support research, development and deployment of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Fuel cell system costs. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). Other than the good news on oil consumption, very little was said in regards to transportation fuels. by Bill Cooke.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2011

The US Department of Energy has selected 16 projects for almost $29 million in funding to develop advanced post-combustion technologies for capturing carbon dioxide from coal–fired power plants. The application of ultrasonic energy forces dissolved CO 2 into gas bubbles. DOE share: $1,620,794; recipient share: $422,269. Battelle (PNNL).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. For a Western Interstate, Alternative Fuels Beckon Electric Cars: What if There’s a Blackout? So how do energy companies cope with such upheaval?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Early Days in the Obama Administration An Address I'd Like to Hear Global Warming Solutions Included in Transportatio. Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. People-Oriented Development Current Status of REDD Financing the Fifth Fuel Peak Phosphorus - Commence Urine Recyling on Space. Here we go again.or

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2017

If accompanied by aggressive efforts to get drivers out of their cars, compact growth programs could reduce auto-based 2030 CO 2 emissions by as much as 25% over and above any emissions reductions attributable to higher fuel economy standards. — Landis et al. The CPP is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Obama Administration doesnt understand that. " President Obamas auto task force doesnt see it that way. It says the Volt is too little, too lateand too expensive to save the beleaguered automaker, and it recently chastised GM for pumping so much money into the Volt instead of developing more fuel-efficient gasoline cars.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Kerry (D-Mass.)

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 2, 2009

org He’s in Washington DC with thousands, protesting the coal-fired Capitol Power plant–a dirty symbol of our dirty energy history. Subject : Stand with me to take down dirty coal. With President Obama and a new US Congress, there is more possibility for climate action than ever before.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2011

And of course that was before the Death Wish Congress took power with their Founding Father’s endorsed mission to destroy the government from the inside out to prove that government is indeed the problem. Despicable seems the most apt word to describe their virulent and ceaseless attack campaign against President Obama and his family.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2011

And of course that was before the Death Wish Congress took power with their Founding Father’s endorsed mission to destroy the government from the inside out to prove that government is indeed the problem. Despicable seems the most apt word to describe their virulent and ceaseless attack campaign against President Obama and his family.

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