Teslarati

MARCH 16, 2023

Rhode Island is offering new incentives to encourage the purchase of electric vehicles with its new DRIVE EV program. Tesla victorious in Rhode Island after state approves license to sell direct DRIVE EV offers rebates of up to $2,500 for car buyers who purchase or lease a new fully-electric or fuel-cell EV.

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Sustainable Transportation Rhode Island Transportation Tax Credit 100

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2018

All the participating jurisdictions are members of the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI), a regional collaboration of Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia that seeks to improve transportation, develop the clean energy economy, and reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Earlier this week, New Jersey officials announced plans to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. The state Department of Environment Protection announced that it will prohibit the sale of new gas-powered cars precisely on January 1, 2035. The gas car ban is New Jersey’s first step toward zero-emissions vehicles.

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Green Energy Consumers

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Rhode Island ’s Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council (EC4) needs your input on their draft chapter s of the 2022 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Plan: P riority A ctions within the Electric, Transportation, and Thermal Sectors. Comments are due by December 2 nd. You can access the draft chapters here.

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Green Energy Consumers

MARCH 10, 2022

Some politicians in Massachusetts and Rhode Island are calling on their state governments to reduce or eliminate the gas tax in response to rising prices since Russia invaded Ukraine a couple weeks ago. That’s an awful idea and political pandering at its worst.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2023

Natural gas 87.9 For example, the dominant source in Rhode Island is natural gas (90.9%), in West Virginia it is coal (90.8%), in Washington it is hydro (64.6%), and in New Hampshire it is nuclear (56.5%). Natural gas 4.1 Energy source Proportional amount of emissions relative to hydro Coal 175.9 Geothermal 16.5

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West Virginia Emissions Carbon Vermont 345

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

The transportation sector is the source of nearly a quarter of Canada’s carbon emissions and more than 40% of California’s. Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and the Chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, today signed a new cooperation agreement to advance cleaner vehicles and fuels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The states of Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland, and Rhode Island have already begun the process and are expected to adopt the regulations in 2023, according to ChargEVC. Much work, way beyond an announcement, is needed to achieve a full transition to electrified transportation. While an important step, we must be clear-eyed.

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Green Energy Consumers

AUGUST 12, 2022

Last week, the Environment Council of Rhode Island (ECRI) hosted a forum for candidates running RI Governor to discuss their plans for the environment if elected. The forum covered several of Rhode Island’s most pressing environmental issues, including environmental justice and implementation of the Act On Climate.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has released a report it commissioned from Sonoma Technology, Inc. The signatories are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia.

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District of Columbia California DC Emissions 435

Green Energy Consumers

MAY 8, 2023

In Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and most other states, the building sector is second only to transportation in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. For states that have already passed laws committing to serious GHG reductions, there is no way to avoid making a timely transition to clean heat (i.e.

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Green Energy Consumers

MAY 20, 2021

If you’re like 9 9 % of Massachusetts and Rhode Island drivers, the car you own no w has an internal combustion engine (ICE) that runs on gasoline. N ow might be a smart time to trade in your gas-powered car for an EV. Here’s why.

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Rhode Island Massachusetts Electric Cars Cars 101

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2020

The authors used the VMT data to calculate that emissions of US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were reduced by 4% in total and by 13% from transportation in the almost 8 weeks since many stay-at-home orders went into effect. All states reduced their vehicle miles traveled by at least 60%. UC Davis Road Ecology Center).

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Fuel Tax Tax Emissions Rhode Island 243

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

States signing the MOU are: California, Connecticut, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

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District of Columbia Rhode Island North Carolina Vermont 289

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2016

For the average driver, every tank of gas burned costs $18.42 Relying almost exclusively on oil for transportation hurts our air, our health, and our environment. In addition to California, the ZEV states are Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont. New York: $7.9

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

MIT researchers have built a model to simulate long-range atmospheric transport of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). For emerging contaminants in the Arctic, we need to know more about their sources, environmental behavior, and transport pathways in order to regulate them more effectively. —Noelle Selin, lead researcher.

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MIT Transportation Rhode Island Building 218

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Additionally, in coordination with the US Department of Transportation through the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, DOE announced its intent to release funding to address barriers to a cleaner, safer, more affordable, and more reliable Made in America EV charging network. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $7.4

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

The state-specific plans focus on hydrogen and fuel cell applications that are both technically and economically viable, and recommend specific goals for stationary and transportation hydrogen fuel cell deployment to meet economic, environmental, and energy needs. Rhode Island. New Jersey. 254 to 339 MW. 543 to 724 MW.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

The transportation sector accounts for about 40 percent of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. Scott, the California Energy Commission’s lead commissioner on transportation. Institute of Gas Technology (1 mobile refueling station). and Rhode Island. —Janea A. Air Liquide Industrial US LP (1 station).

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California Hydrogen Electric Vehicles Rhode Island 255

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2009

that commits their states to continued participation in a regional effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fuels for vehicles and other uses. If adopted by states, it would apply to the transportation sector, and potentially to fuels used for heating buildings. Memorandum of Understanding. Earlier post.).

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Carbon Fuel Massachusetts Rhode Island 210

The Truth About Cars

JUNE 16, 2023

The automaker told dealers in April that the CARB states are enforcing tougher greenhouse gas standards retroactively to the 2021 model year. But someone just seeking reliable transportation is less likely to do so and will frequently opt for something inexpensive that’s already on the lot. About 36 percent of the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is [link] about $11 million to 20 new projects to help states and local governments to develop the infrastructure, training, and regional planning needed to help meet the demand for alternative fuel cars and trucks, including vehicles that run on natural gas, electricity, and propane. Transportation and.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding to 43 transit agencies for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities. Connecticut Department of Transportation, Connecticut: $7,000,000.

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Green Energy Consumers

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2014

The partner states are California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont. The ultimate goal is to reduce greenhouse gas and smog-causing emissions by transforming the transportation sector over the next 11 years. Earlier post.)

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Plug-in Rhode Island Fleet Hydrogen 244

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

The GRI also funds research that improves techniques for detecting oil and gas, spill mitigation, and technologies to characterize and remediate spills. Project Title: Consortium for Advanced Research of Hydrocarbon Transport in the Environment (CARTHE). Project Title: Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf (ECOGIG).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a report outlining both the current state of renewable transportation fuels efforts in the US and a plan to develop regional strategies to increase the production, marketing and distribution of biofuels. USDA Regional Roadmap. Regional contributions. million acres, 11.4% Central East.

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Renewable Standards Fuel Rhode Island 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

These trucks haul 80% of goods in the United States and use about 28 billion gallons of fuel per year, accounting for around 22% of total transportation energy usage—presenting a significant opportunity for carbon emissions reduction and energy savings for a key segment of the US transportation sector. Gas Technology Institute.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. Porous Transport Electrodes for Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers, $450,000. High Efficiency Power-to-Gas in a Modular Hybrid Electrobioreactor, $1,000,000.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 12, 2022

The BZ4X will be sold throughout the world, but in America it will be first offered (April 2022) in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. As part of these events we may be offered free transportation, lodging or meals.

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Plug in America

APRIL 30, 2021

And then for emphasis, said that the American Jobs Plan (which includes a whopping $174 billion investment in transportation electrification over a decade) would enable us to “lead the world in the production of electric vehicles and batteries.”. On Earth Day, he committed the United States to a 50% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

They are looking at cutting the nation’s greenhouse gas output by targeting, in separate ways, three major sources of emissions: electric utilities, transportation and industry. transportation sector; and industrial facilities would be exempted from a cap on emissions for several years before they are phased in.

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Electric Auto Association

MAY 20, 2021

With all the news recently surrounding the unprecedented global pandemic, important developments in Massachusetts transportation and emissions policy may not have received as much attention as they deserve. Putting the brake on regional pollution Also in December, Massachusetts, along with Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Washington D.C.,

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