Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The transportation sector alone accounts for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions in California, 6% higher than the national average. Completion of this project and its potential as a major transit component will further reduce priority air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions in the City and County of Los Angeles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are collaborating in the $20-million CalNex research project to examine the nexus between air pollution and climate change. CalNex is the culmination of three years’ preparation.

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Climate Change Climate Pollution California 210

Creative Greenius

APRIL 5, 2011

Stroll, play, talk, celebrate -do whatever you want on the public street without sucking up gas fumes or fearing for your life from drunk drivers, texting drivers, drivers eating or putting on makeup or just plain dangerous behind the wheel lunatics. Participants will also get stylin’ Greenpeace and Sierra Club t-shirts!

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Pechman for the Western District of Washington has ruled that the Washington Department of Ecology, Northwest Clean Air Agency, and Puget Sound Clean Air Agency must regulate greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from the five oil refineries operating in Washington State. ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for criteria pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2021

has been expanding investments in green businesses and technologies to achieve its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in response to global climate change. Fulcrum’s first MSW-to-fuels facility, Sierra BioFuels, located near Reno, Nev. Founded in Pleasanton, Calif.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

Expanding a network of community air-quality monitors operated by Casa Familiar in San Ysidro, one of 28 community-based organizations and tribes statewide receiving grants to engage residents in efforts to reduce local air pollution. Nearly $2 billion of the $3.3

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the completion of the Midterm Evaluation (MTE) process for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for cars and light trucks for model years 2022-2025, and his final determination that the current standards are not appropriate and should be revised.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

If approved by the CPUC, the program would be implemented over five years and is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 42,000 metric tons per year, equivalent to avoiding the use of more than 4.7 million gallons of gasoline. One cutting-edge element of the proposal is an electric school bus vehicle-to-grid pilot.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 5, 2011

Stroll, play, talk, celebrate -do whatever you want on the public street without sucking up gas fumes or fearing for your life from drunk drivers, texting drivers, drivers eating or putting on makeup or just plain dangerous behind the wheel lunatics. Participants will also get stylin’ Greenpeace and Sierra Club t-shirts!

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Coal Los Angeles Sierra Green 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2015

A diverse set of public interest groups, automakers, labor unions, and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) submitted a proposed settlement to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to accelerate the deployment of smart electric vehicle (EV) charging stations that would support the utility grid in San Diego.

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San Diego Charging Sierra Climate Change 150

Plugs and Cars

JULY 19, 2007

The basic question addressed, which appears on the study homepage (epri-reports.org) is this: How would air quality and greenhouse gas emissions be affected if significant numbers of Americans drove cars that were fueled by the power grid?

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 19, 2022

Transportation is the largest source of climate pollution in the United States, representing almost a third of all greenhouse gas emissions.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 7, 2024

The Department of Transportation has finalized its newest Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, requiring an increase in fuel economy that will reduce pollution and save Americans $23 billion in fuel costs, but are nevertheless softer than the administration had originally sought. miles per gallon in 2031.

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Plug in America

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Achieve Model Policy Toolkit In January, we launched AchiEVe: Model Policies to Accelerate Electric Vehicle Adoption in partnership with the Sierra Club, Forth, and the Electrification Coalition. ACC II will increase the number of zero-emission vehicles sold in New Mexico and provide greater consumer choice of EVs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Sign the petition Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge www.sierraclub.org/arctic/ American Lung Association call for better EPA air pollution standards. Romm, 2004 "Out of Gas, The End of the Age of Oil", by David Goodstein, 2004 "Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage", by Kenneth S. htm Advocates of the Th!

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

You lose the flexibility of the hybrid being able to fuel up nearly instantaneously at a gas station, and pay an additional $10k for that loss. Most Americans commute less than 40 miles daily, so that most days they would consume practically NO combustible fuel, na d not pollute the environment while driving or idling. — Dan 3.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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Teslarati

JUNE 10, 2025

xAI’s supercomputer in Memphis faces pushback from local leaders and environmental groups over concerns about air pollution despite its promise of economic growth. It has sparked opposition from the NAACP, Sierra Club, and Mississippi Democratic Party Chairman Cheikh Taylor. Tennessee State Rep.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Next post States’ Proposals for Gas Taxes Sputter 11 Comments 1. One thing is for sure; - electric cars bring down the air pollution, but they sure create another waste pollution problem. April 10, 2009 2:28 pm Link Nothing pollutes more than the tailpipe of a internal combustion engine car. — Kaare Nilsen 2.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 29, 2024

Transportation is the largest-polluting sector in America, and heavy duty vehicles make a disproportionate amount of that pollution. Praise also came from the Sierra Club, the Hip Hop Council (who focused on the environmental justice aspect of these rules), and even from industry representatives.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 20, 2024

GMC confirmed a starting price just under $100,000 and an EPA range of 440 miles for its top 2024 GMC Sierra EV Denali Edition 1 electric pickup. That’s caused a spike in electricity demand, leading utilities to shift their power mix toward natural gas and away from renewables. gas stations.

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Electric Auto Association

JUNE 3, 2022

I remember going up to the Sierras and then coming back and being horrified by the smog and air pollution that hung around the horizon line as we descended into the Sacramento Valley,” she said. Transportation is 40% of greenhouse gas emissions, and emissions have been linked to rising cancer rates across the country.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2020

Consumer Reports sent letters and a consumer petition to the leaders of General Motors, Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, Nissan, Subaru, Mazda, Hyundai, Kia, and Mitsubishi, calling on the companies to drop their legal attack against America’s Clean Air Act, and instead support Clean Car standards that help drivers save money on fuel and reduce air pollution.

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Standards Gas Pollution Sierra 284

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Co-benefits” from non-greenhouse-gas pollutants: The Obama administration relied heavily on reductions in other pollutants emitted by power plants, essentially hiding the true net cost of the CPP by claiming benefits from reducing pollutants that had nothing to do with the rule’s stated purpose.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 8, 2024

However, the CEO of the nation’s largest EV company, whose personal and corporate mission is supposedly to ensure a transition to sustainable transport, is still backing a ticket that routinely lies about EVs and would subsidize polluting gas vehicles. Trump found himself in the Oval Office. Trump’s VP pick J.D.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 10, 2024

Not only will these new standards save Americans money at the pump every time they fill up, they will also decrease harmful pollution and make America less reliant on foreign oil,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg claimed in a statement. That’s modest, but not inconsequential.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This winter, residents in the Sierra Nevada mountains lost power for days due to heavy snow storms. California's zero-emission rules [claims it] will cut by 25 percent smog-causing pollution from light-duty vehicles by 2037. People with electric vehicles couldn't charge them to evacuate or heat their homes. percent of U.S.

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