Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2009

Shortly after taking office in January, President Barack Obama directed EPA to assess the appropriateness of denying the waiver. EPA also found that the California program meets legal requirements regarding the protectiveness of public health and welfare as well as technological feasibility.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative , a US $100 million research effort announced by President Barack Obama in 2013. Legal scholars working with the NeuroRights Foundation say the right to mental privacy is under the most imminent threat. Staff attorney.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Under President Obama’s national fuel policy ( earlier post ), the EPA and the Department of Transportation’s NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), are jointly developing a new harmonized national policy intended to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for all new cars and trucks sold in the US.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

All agreements would be legally binding, and would be subject to independent verification. President Obama later distanced himself from that requirement, remarking afterward “we can actually monitor a lot of what takes place through satellite imagery and so forth. The relative valuation of potential emissions offsets (e.g.

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Green Cars News

JULY 2, 2009

In granting the waiver, the EPA found that California continues to have a need for its motor vehicle emissions programme, including the greenhouse gas standards and also found that the programme meets legal requirements regarding the protectiveness of public health and welfare.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

2 ] Rasmussen’s “one agreement, two steps” plan was quickly endorsed by US President Obama, as well as Australia’s Prime Minister Rudd and Russia’s President Medvedev, all of whom were present at the APEC summit. “ Internationally, we reject legally binding emissions. We can’t run away from it.”

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2009

The decision follows President Obama’s landmark agreement to adopt federal emission standards for the model years 2012-2016. From 2012 onwards, the new national standards would be deemed to reflect the state standards and the auto industry would dismiss its legal challenges.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 11, 2010

And since I am indeed The Greenius and I have legally laid claim to this decade, preempting all others, I can confidently lay this on you and you can take comfort knowing I’m on the case and will not let you down. It seems like only yesterday that I was out picking up trash in Old Town Torrance, but it was in fact in January of 2009.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

They satisfied their greed at the expense of our environment and our health and the Creative Greenius says they are finally getting what they deserve - except for our government bailouts - and next week when President Obama takes office our California Emission rules are going to smack them down even harder, just as they should.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

The current California program constitutes a separate set of rules with minor variations due to separate legal structures but is designed to parallel the proposed federal joint rulemaking the Obama administration announced last summer.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Released in 2015 by the Obama Administration EPA, the CPP established the first national standards to limit CO 2 emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power plants (Electric Generating Units, EGUs), with a target of a 32% reduction against a 2005 baseline by 2030. Earlier post.).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 9, 2009

The more the merrier, the market for these is going to explode soon with Obama’s stimulation plan, and its tax of $7,500 to $15,000 for electric trucks. Along with Tedd Abramson’s Zero Truck in San Diego and Smith Trucks in London, we now have EVI (I keep wanting to write that as EV1:~).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In a series of tweets Wednesday morning, President Trump said that his administration “ is revoking California’s Federal Waiver on emissions ”—a reference to the waiver of preemption under the federal Clean Air Act granted California by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the Obama Administration in 2012.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In order to comply with the Obama standards, auto makers need to sell many more electric vehicles. According to the Obama EPA’s 2012 analysis, even a much more stringent version of the rule than the one that eventually finalized would have lowered global temperatures by only two-one hundredths of a degree Celsius by 2100. The George W.

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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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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The study analyzes how extensively local planning policies could either complement the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) of 2015 or compensate for its absence. The CPP is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. miles per gallon by the year 2027.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Under President Obama, the EPA set the first federal greenhouse gas standard for cars. President Biden has made it clear that he intends to strengthen environmental regulations across the board, and his administration is expected to reinstate the Obama-era emissions standards, and possibly go beyond them.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Charged : So, you think they’re probably just going to restore the Obama-era targets for now? That has been probably the biggest hurdle—not the biggest engineering hurdle, but the biggest legal hurdle. You better have some steel. You better have some reinforcements to meet those crash [tests]. That’s huge.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Open Internet Order was implemented under a Democratic-majority FCC led by Tom Wheeler during the Obama administration. Part of the reason is that the issue has become a highly political one. The Restoring Internet Freedom Order happened under a Republican-majority FCC led by Pai.

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Cars That Think

JULY 26, 2023

My primary appointment is at the law school where I teach legal philosophy. So it was from 1600 to 2014, about whether you’re allowed legally to go to war. And how does it relate to legal and ethical questions we have? Schneider: Before we talk about your book, tell me a little bit about yourself. What about cyber war?”

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2022

I think it’s one thing to have a commitment for 2030 and 2035, and it’s another thing to have to meet legal requirements and standards. Margo Oge: The Trump administration did finalize the standards in 2020, [but] they got legal challenges. The courts put them on hold, all these legal challenges. It has been on hold.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

The Cantwell-Collins plan is almost exactly what Mr. Obama proposed in the campaign and after first taking office–a 100 percent auction of permits and a large tax rebate to the public. nationals and legal residents. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.)

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Electric Auto Association

MARCH 27, 2021

EPA legal prospects looking up The EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles is already on a solid legal footing. All of this real world evidence confirming the feasibility of EVs has legal significance that will strengthen the EPA’s hand if it decides to implement federal Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandates.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 9, 2024

Originally instituted by the Obama administration in 2013, the waiver was ended by the Trump administration in 2019 on the grounds that it effectively allowed California to move the nation toward more stringent fuel economy standards and mandatory electrification.

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