Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

A coalition of 11 states filed a lawsuit to compel the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promptly to revise national air quality standards for air pollution involving soot. In response to the court’s remand, the EPA stated that it would revise the soot standards as part of its next five-year review under the statute.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has renewed calls for scrapping the most polluting diesel cars and giving drivers cash incentives to switch to cleaner vehicles as part of the evidence he gave to the Environmental Audit Committee today. They now feel very hacked off now they’re told they are more polluting.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2012

Air pollution emitted from sources such as traffic, industry and households is still above internationally agreed limits in 12 European countries, according to newly published data. These pollutants are harmful to both people and the environment, causing respiratory illnesses, acidifying soil and surface water, and damaging vegetation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2021

The complaint filed in Manhattan federal court alleges that from approximately 2005 until at least late 2015, Toyota systematically violated Clean Air Act automobile defect reporting requirements designed to protect public health and the environment from harmful air pollutants. Toyota’s Conduct from Approximately 2005 to 2015.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It comes at a time when there is increasing focus on emissions and air quality, following vehicle certification irregularities and legal actions against European countries for air quality violations in cities.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In response to a court order, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized an update to its national air quality standards for harmful fine particle pollution (PM 2.5 ), including soot, setting the annual health (primary) standard at 12 µg/m 3. The outgoing annual standard is 15 µg/m 3 , which has been in place since 1997.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2011

The EU-27 and its Member States must meet legally binding limits for four air pollutants set by the National Emission Ceilings Directive (NEC Directive). Most Member States also anticipate meeting their emission ceilings for these pollutants. Click to enlarge. NEC Directive status report 2010.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2009

According to a statement from EPA Press Secretary Adora Andy: As directed by the US Supreme Court, EPA has prepared and sent to the White House for review a proposed finding as to whether man-made greenhouse-gas emissions endanger human health and welfare.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Sierra Club and NRDC raised issues about the air pollution, water discharges, and global warming pollution associated with the plant. According to Mr. Baardson at that time, the company learned that the NRDC and Sierra Club legal. In March 2009, Baard Energy CEO John Baardson announced that company.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

The funding is for a program of localized measures designed to improve London’s air quality and help compliance with legally binding European targets. The EU’s Ambient Air Quality Directive 2008 requires Member States to ensure that levels of various pollutants in ambient air comply with certain standards.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2011

In the cities reviewed here, parking policy has been reoriented around alternative social goals.Every car trip begins and ends in a parking space, so parking regulation is one of the best ways to regulate car use. The net result is a more balanced transportation network with less emphasis on driving. —Europe’s Parking U-Turn.

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Green Cars News

JULY 21, 2009

However, Volvo Car UK recently issued a Press release challenging the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, to review the basis of charging for the London congestion charging zone. we believe the congestion charge needs to be reviewed and updated. Is the congestion charge unfair? Our verdict…. Here at TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

The draft requires states to establish goals for reducing global warming pollution from the transportation sector and requires large metropolitan planning organizations to submit transportation plans to meet those goals. Title III, Reducing Global Warming Pollution , (the cap-and-trade title), has eight subsections.

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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. Theoretically, cars operating on higher ethanol blends than the design point could emit greater concentrations of pollutants in exhaust gas. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

Pilotage programs: The government will review existing pilotage and tug escort requirements to see what more will be needed in the future. The Tanker Safety Expert Panel will review Canada’s current system and propose further measures to strengthen it.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2024

Thacker Pass was among several projects subjected to an expedited environmental review process during the pandemic. The fact that lithium mines have taken criticism for polluting groundwater may have also been a contributing issue. However, those entities ultimately lost their legal battles and only managed to stall the project.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2015

Sources already subject to the 2012 NSPS requirements for VOC reductions that also would be covered by the proposed 2015 methane requirements would not have to install additional controls, because the controls to reduce VOCs reduce both pollutants. The proposal also includes incentives to spur the oil and gas industry to minimize leaks.

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MARCH 22, 2010

and (b) Could emissions credits based on faulty assumptions or inadequate review be revoked? The two central questions are: (a) Who is liable if credits are found to have been contrived?;

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

In addition, the lack of relevant legal or industry expertise is increasingly worrisome. This may become a major operational and legal problem at the federal level as thousands of new employees are hired across multiple federal departments and agencies to carry out the Biden Administration’s environmental policies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Slated for a July 2011 start, it would regulate 1000 of the country's biggest polluters and 75 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. The Indian government has consistently asserted that it will not agree to legally binding emissions reductions under any circumstances. “It has implications for us.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

On the criteria pollutants side, LEV III reduces fleet average emissions of new passenger cars (PCs), light-duty trucks (LDTs) and medium-duty passenger vehicles (MDPVs) to. super ultra-low-emission vehicle (SULEV) levels by 2025. (The

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

ARB is initiating its review of the Supplement; the Board will conduct a public hearing later this summer to consider the approval or disapproval, in whole or in part, of the full Investment Plan, which now includes the Supplement.

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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. These PUMAs dont pollute the air, they dont make loud noises, and they go slow enough to prevent a lot of traffic accidents, especially for teens. Look at it this way.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants? But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. See Car and Driver s review ] Other hybrids, including the Toyota Highlander and Lexus 400h, are possible future candidates.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt signed four Federal Register notices in response to the EO, including a formal announcement of review of the Clean Power Plan. After review, the Agency has proposed to determine that the Clean Power Plan (CPP) must be repealed.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Click here to review our Terms of Use. Click here to review our Terms of Use. Once reported, our staff will be notified and the comment will be reviewed. Topics: Wind , Energy efficiency Tags: IBM , smart grid , Denmark Share: Digg Del.icio.us Reddit Recent posts from Green Tech EPA calls greenhouse gases a public threat U.S.

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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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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

California has led the nation in the fight against air pollution. That has been probably the biggest hurdle—not the biggest engineering hurdle, but the biggest legal hurdle. Q&A with environmental lawyer Maureen Gorsen. You better have some steel. You better have some reinforcements to meet those crash [tests]. 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.

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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. When regulating the pollutants from light duty vehicles, the EPA is required to reconcile its obligation to protect the environment with the feasibility of the rules imposed on automakers.

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