Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

UK Transport Secretary Philip Hammond has committed an additional £5 million (US$8 million) funding to the Mayor of London Boris Johnson to help improve air quality in the capital. The funding is for a program of localized measures designed to improve London’s air quality and help compliance with legally binding European targets.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Baard Energy was then to proceed into final design and construction of the 53,000 barrel per day Coal/Biomass to Liquids plant (CBTL) at the Columbiana County Port Authority site in Wellsville, Ohio. Sierra Club and NRDC raised issues about the air pollution, water discharges, and global warming pollution associated with the plant.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

A new report by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) provides a comprehensive overview of methodologies for estimating air emissions from shipping; describes technological solutions; and analyses policy options for reducing carbon emissions and air pollution in this sector.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 27, 2023

With the increasing global concern over climate change and the need to transition towards cleaner and more sustainable modes of transportation, countries around the world have been formulating regulations to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). It is the nation’s top organisation for automotive research and development.

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Clean Car

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

However, one area that is entirely predictable (even if the details may change) is the push towards decarbonising our road transport system. . The UK Government has legally committed us to achieving a net-zero carbon economy by 2050. As the road transport sector accounts for around 25% of UK carbon emissions, it is a priority sector.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2011

The report found: Parking is increasingly linked to public transport. The result, along with other transport infrastructure improvements, has been a 13% decrease in driving. Parking caps have been set in Zurich and Hamburg’s business districts to freeze the existing supply, where access to public transport is easiest.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The alleged violations do not present a safety hazard; the cars remain legal to drive and resell. Only then did VW admit it had designed and installed a defeat device in these vehicles in the form of a sophisticated software algorithm that detected when a vehicle was undergoing emissions testing. Passat (Model Years 2014-2015).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The consumption scenarios are technically achievable but do not reflect significant barriers such as cost, regulation, legality, and consumer acceptance. A team at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has released a paper assessing technical barriers to the use of higher blends of ethanol. Source: ICCT.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

One of the things that we’re going to be talking about today is investing in the kind of technology that will allow us to use coal, our most bountiful natural resource here in the United States, without polluting our planet. Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). Earlier post.) Feedstock Production Systems – USDA (REE and FS).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

The UN has certified twenty-six firms worldwide as Designated Operational Entities (DOEs) to “validate” the promises of emissions reducers and then to “verify,” often years later, that those reductions actually occurred. SGS is one of two companies that dominate the carbon-validation business. CONCLUSION.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

Much of this oil is transported in barges to and from communities along the BC coast. Public port designations: More ports will be designated for traffic control measures, starting with Kitimat. In 2009-2010, there were about 1,500 tanker movements on the West Coast, among 475,000 vessel movements in the area. In 2009, about 8.4

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2017

When a car manufacturer breaches the legal requirements, national authorities must take corrective action (such as ordering a recall) and apply effective, dissuasive and proportionate penalties laid out in national legislation. —Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska, responsible for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

There's also a £160-million scheme mimicking the United States' defunct Cash-4-Clunkers designed to pay people to destroy their old cars to buy new ULEZ compliant models (which admittedly sounds like it's just going to create more pollution). Basically, you need to be driving an electric vehicle or be prepared to spend £12.50

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

reforestation); Limiting deforestation by purchasing forested property and preserving the forests with legal and enforcement mechanisms; Setting aside croplands from agricultural production to rebuild carbon in the soil and vegetation; and. Planting trees on previously non-forested land (i.e., 2) Examples of Renewable Energy Projects.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

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. “It has implications for us.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 16, 2022

The electrical energy is given by wind, sun and other renewable resources are guaranteed to be futurist options for lowering pollution and dependency on petroleum fuels. The electric tractor is designed with zero emission in mind, making it environmentally friendly. Electric Tractors In India.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

That front-drive mode gets the car a green light in cities like London and Rome as they begin to bar polluting cars from their downtown areas. Most improbably, perhaps, Dodge—creator of the notorious Demon, whose drag-race times challenged Bugatti’s million-dollar models—intends to design an electric muscle car that will be even faster.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities. It is based on the Segway Personal Transporter but holds two people, instead of one, and lets them sit, instead of stand. interesting design. E-mail Martin.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We also think that with more people realizing that global warming is our greatest challenge, and that evolving the transportation sector to zero-carbon via cellulosic ethanol plug-in hybrids plus electricity from renewable sources may be our best strategy, the discussions about payback are a narrow answer to big questions.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

California has led the nation in the fight against air pollution. Maureen Gorsen: The engineers of the car companies, it takes them several years to design their cars—I think they like three years lead time. Then you have [Secretary of Transportation] Pete Buttigieg. Q&A with environmental lawyer Maureen Gorsen. That’s huge.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Since President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act in 1963, federal regulations aimed at reducing air pollution have gradually grown stronger. Charged : The body of federal and state air pollution regulations encompasses both emissions and fuel economy standards, and generates an astounding number of acronyms.

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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. INTRODUCTION. Participating U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. WCI covers seven U.S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Renergie was formed for the initial purpose of raising capital to develop, construct, own and operate a decentralized network of ten modular-designed small advanced biofuel manufacturing facilities (SABMFs) in the parishes of the State of Louisiana which were devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. ]. Donovan, CEO of Renergie, Inc.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2022

To help us sort out how the new policies are likely to unfold, we turned to Margo Oge, former Director of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality and author of the book Driving the Future. Transportation will be, probably along with the energy sector, the key sector that will require to be addressed in order to achieve that goal.

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