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Belfer Center Study Concludes Reducing Car and Truck GHG Emissions Will Require Substantially Higher Fuel Prices; Income Tax Credits for Advanced Alt Fuel Vehicles Are Essentially Ineffective at Reducing Sector Emissions

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The key to obtaining significant reductions in transportation-related GHG emissions is to increase the cost of driving. The economy-wide CO 2 prices applied increase the cost of driving only marginally with respect to the business-as-usual case. —Morrow et al. Adoption of all of the preceding policies.

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Report finds says “negative emissions technologies” need to play a large role in mitigating climate change

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Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University and chair of the committee. The cost of the carbon removal is low or zero, because investments in many coastal blue carbon projects target other benefits such as coastal adaptation. —Stephen Pacala, the Frederick D.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. It will also list current tax credits and incentives applicable to EV charging. Binghamton University (State University of New York).

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ARB Staff Posts Expert Review Reports of the ZEV Technical Analysis

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Favorable ZEVs policies would include tax credits to owners/drivers, incentives for battery/fuel cell manufacturers to produce domestically, and rebates to utilities that fuel ZEVs with electricity/hydrogen at lower rates. Earlier post.).

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. Within the US electric power sector the biggest question was whether the Production Tax Credits (PTC) were going to be extended beyond 2008. Cap and Trade Disappointment.

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2022—The Year the Hydrogen Economy Launched?

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In the United States, sweeping legislation capped a series of moves by the country’s Department of Energy (DOE) over the past year to drive down the cost of low-carbon hydrogen and stimulate demand for the fuel. kg of carbon dioxide emitted per kilogram of hydrogen produced—producers are eligible for a credit of up to $3.00

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Opinion: Stop Subsidizing Electric Vehicle Programs

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spending billions just on EV tax credits and just about everyone is wondering where all this money is going. Unfortunately, the places the government is targeting aren’t the regions where EVs sell in meaningful volumes and public charging stations are almost universally loathed by EV today’s owners.