Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Rhode Island is one of the many states to offer purchase rebates for new electric cars. Under the recently introduced Driving Rhode Island to Vehicle Electrification (DRIVE) incentive program, buyers can get up to $2,500 for their electric-car purchases.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Under this scenario, the estimated total health and climate change costs associated with passenger vehicle fleet pollution drops from to $37 billion annually to $15.7 Annual pollution-related impacts drop by more than 85% due to fewer lost work days caused by pollution-related illnesses, fewer asthma attacks and fewer premature deaths.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 23, 2014
The other seven states—Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—account for more than 135,000 vehicles. Zero-emission vehicles are vital to Massachusetts’ efforts to cut air pollution from the transportation sector and stimulate growth in the clean energy economy.
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.
Plug in America
APRIL 30, 2021
That same day, the administration announced a reversal of the Trump-era rule that California would not be able to set its own rigorous air pollution rules. While he didn’t mention EVs by name, we know that there is no way to get there without a dramatic surge in electric vehicles fueled by clean energy.
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. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Kerry (D-Mass.)
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. Due largely to possessing the ability to self-regulate, California is known for having some of the strictest emission rules in the country. percent of U.S. vehicles sold in 2022 that were EVs.
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