Corporation, Economy, Environment and Tax Credit

Biofuel Companies and Trade Associations Push for Extension to Investment Tax Credits for Cellulosic Biofuels and The Inclusion of Algae Biofuels

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2010

A group of 35 biotechnology and biofuel companies and trade associations are urging the leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee to extend tax credits for cellulosic biofuels for four years, to allow algae biofuels to qualify for those tax credits, and to create an option for monetizing the tax credits as tax refunds.

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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

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

Economy-wide CO 2 prices of $30-60/t CO 2 are too weak on their own to motivate significant reductions in CO 2 emissions from transportation. 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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Australia PM Gillard announces carbon pricing plan; transport fuels exempt, but lowered fuel tax credits to bring carbon price to some businesses

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2011

Most Australians now agree our climate is changing, this is caused by carbon pollution, this has harmful effects on our environment and on the economy—and the Government should act. However, where applicable, an equivalent carbon price will be applied through changes in fuel tax credits or excise.

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Researchers suggest subsidies and policies targeting plug-ins with small battery packs would produce more benefits at lower cost

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2012

Michalek, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and his colleagues Mikhail Chester, an assistant professor at Arizona State University; and Constantine Samaras, an engineer at the RAND Corporation. Earlier post.).

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How the EV Charging Industry Is Emerging and Evolving

EV Connect

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Major improvements in technology, along with a growing sense of urgency in the push toward clean, sustainable energy, are changing the ways that institutions and businesses think about their role in the transportation economy. This raises the ceiling for the EV charging industry dramatically.

Industrial

Industrial Industry Charging 2019

The State of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Electrification

Driivz

JULY 2, 2023

In addition to providing clean transportation for children, school bus electrification programs will add $6 billion to the economy and create 46,000 job years. An indicative survey by the Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance of its 24 members, who operate more than 1.3 million fleet vehicles in the U.S.

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Vehicles Fleet Grid Charging

UCLA–UC Berkeley paper outlines how CA can boost biofuel production to cut pollution and help the economy

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Elkind is associate director of the climate change initiative at UCLA School of Law’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment. —Ethan Elkind, a co-author of the report. vs. 33% nationwide—just for tailpipe emissions.

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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

At a renewable energy conference in February of this year Doug Berven, the director of Corporate Affairs at ethanol producer POET, shared the following capacity projections for the ethanol business: At the beginning of this year the industry had 12.1 All of these issues are contributing to excess capacity in the industry. of Agriculture.

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News: IRA Aims to Accelerate Fleet Electrification

Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

While many of the legislation’s provisions–such as the new and modified tax credits–encourage individual consumers to purchase a new or used electric vehicle, these measures also have the potential to benefit companies that make a similar move on a larger scale. In response to the rapidly evolving U.S.

Fleet

Fleet Tax Credit Tax Carbon

EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In a speech on Tuesday at the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting in Washington, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler outlined the Trump Administration’s thinking on national fuel economy standards and California. Earlier post.). —Andrew Wheeler. —Andrew Wheeler. Purchasing.

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Republicans introduce bill that would hand US EV lead to China

Baua Electric

MAY 5, 2024

Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the US EV tax credit in the Inflation Reduction Act, with the effect of slowing US progress on EV manufacturing, thus handing the lead in EV manufacturing to China. These credits were an extension and expansion of the $7,500 EV tax credit first introduced in 2008.

China

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Auto Lobby Says EPA Targets Aren’t Achievable

The Truth About Cars

JUNE 29, 2023

Consumers are becoming increasingly aware that some of the raw materials used in battery production are difficult to source, controlled by a limited number of countries, involve some less-than-ideal mining practices, and often pollute the surrounding environment when being refined.

EPA

EPA Auto Tax Credit Industrial

MIT study suggests carbon tax could help reduce US deficit, lower other taxes, reduce emissions

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2012

A new report from MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change suggests that a tax on carbon emissions could help raise the money needed to reduce the US deficit, while improving the economy, lowering other taxes and reducing emissions. They found that the tax would raise $1.5 —John Reilly.

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Tax MIT Carbon Emissions

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Biofuel Companies and Trade Associations Push for Extension to Investment Tax Credits for Cellulosic Biofuels and The Inclusion of Algae Biofuels

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

Australia PM Gillard announces carbon pricing plan; transport fuels exempt, but lowered fuel tax credits to bring carbon price to some businesses

Researchers suggest subsidies and policies targeting plug-ins with small battery packs would produce more benefits at lower cost

How the EV Charging Industry Is Emerging and Evolving

The State of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Electrification

UCLA–UC Berkeley paper outlines how CA can boost biofuel production to cut pollution and help the economy

Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

News: IRA Aims to Accelerate Fleet Electrification

EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

Republicans introduce bill that would hand US EV lead to China

Auto Lobby Says EPA Targets Aren’t Achievable

MIT study suggests carbon tax could help reduce US deficit, lower other taxes, reduce emissions

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