New Jersey, Pollution and Virginia

New Jersey to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035

Teslarati

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Earlier this week, New Jersey officials announced plans to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. The ban is New Jersey’s effort to improve the air quality in the state. The gas car ban is New Jersey’s first step toward zero-emissions vehicles.

New Jersey

New Jersey Gas Rhode Island Sale

3 East Coast states and DC first to participate in TCI-P cap-and-invest program for transportation

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2020

As part of the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI), Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Virginia have participated actively in developing the TCI-P and have the opportunity to join the program in the future.

Rhode Island

Rhode Island District of Columbia Transportation Connecticut

Nine states and DC to design regional approach to cap greenhouse gas emissions from transportation

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2018

A coalition of nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia announced their intent to design a new regional low-carbon transportation policy proposal that would cap and reduce carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels, and invest proceeds from the program into low-carbon and more resilient transportation infrastructure. (..)

District of Columbia

District of Columbia DC Transportation Rhode Island

EPA announces $46M for latest Diesel Emissions Reduction Act funding

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2021

Nonprofit organizations may apply if they provide pollution reduction or educational services to diesel fleet owners or promote air quality and clean transportation. Region 2 (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, U.S. Applicants may apply until 16 March 2021.

EPA

EPA Diesel Puerto Rico Emissions

President Biden Clears Way for States to Curb Vehicle Pollution

EV Obssesion

APRIL 26, 2021

By Luke Tonachel President Biden is following through on his promise to re-establish the long-held authority of governors to adopt vehicle pollution regulations to protect the health and welfare of people in their states. The post President Biden Clears Way for States to Curb Vehicle Pollution appeared first on EV Obsession.

Pollution

Pollution Vehicles EPA Clean

EPA announces ~$44M in DERA funding to reduce emissions from diesel engines

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Nonprofit organizations may apply if they provide pollution reduction or educational services to diesel fleet owners or have, as their principal purpose, the promotion of transportation or air quality. Region 2 (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, U.S.

EPA

EPA Diesel Puerto Rico Emissions

EPA announces availability of $26M for projects to reduce diesel emissions from existing fleet

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Nonprofit organizations may apply if they provide pollution reduction or educational services to diesel fleet owners or have, as their principal purpose, the promotion of transportation or air quality. Region 2 (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, U.S.

EPA

EPA Diesel Fleet Puerto Rico

Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

A specific challenge would-be-conversions must face is that the NRC’s standards—both for atmospheric pollution and for the amount of radiological material a reactor can release—are much tighter than federal standards for coal plants. In West Virginia, once coal’s citadel, the state government eliminated its old ban on nuclear power plants.

Coal

Coal Convert Power Powered

EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District is replacing 48 trucks model year 1991-2003 with trucks powered by 2013 or newer model year engines. Delaware and Virginia. New Jersey and New York. New Jersey Clean Cities Coalition is repowering seven marine vessels with 13 Tier 3 engines.

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico EPA Clean Cleaning

CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

Stacked bars show the change in generation cost combined with the median damages by pollutant assuming the 2010 social cost of carbon given by the Office of Management and Budget ($31 in $2010). However, this shift results in increased externality costs of health and environmental damages from increased air pollution.

Charging

Charging Coal Grid District of Columbia

US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will result in expanded availability of alternative fuels with 17 new CNG and E85 fueling stations and 63 electric vehicle charging stations. New Jersey Clean Cities Coalition’s New Jersey Compressed Natural Gas Refuse Trucks, Shuttle Buses and Infrastructure. Total DOE award: $14,999,658.

Alternative Fuels

Alternative Fuels Clean Cleaning Grant

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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.

Gas

Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

Gas War: U.S. House Suggests Ending California Emissions Authority, White House Says Nope

The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

California's zero-emission rules [claims it] will cut by 25 percent smog-causing pollution from light-duty vehicles by 2037. The rules mandate that 35 percent of the new cars sold be plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV), EVs or hydrogen fuel cell by 2026. percent of U.S. vehicles sold in 2022 that were EVs.

California

California Emissions Gas EPA

EV Driven

New Jersey to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035

3 East Coast states and DC first to participate in TCI-P cap-and-invest program for transportation

Nine states and DC to design regional approach to cap greenhouse gas emissions from transportation

EPA announces $46M for latest Diesel Emissions Reduction Act funding

President Biden Clears Way for States to Curb Vehicle Pollution

EPA announces ~$44M in DERA funding to reduce emissions from diesel engines

EPA announces availability of $26M for projects to reduce diesel emissions from existing fleet

Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Gas War: U.S. House Suggests Ending California Emissions Authority, White House Says Nope

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