Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

Most Americans oppose President Barack Obama’s ban on deepwater oil drilling in response to BP’s Gulf of Mexico spill, even as they hold BP primarily responsible for the incident, according to a new Bloomberg poll. Tags: Brief. Ann Selzer, president of Selzer & Co.,

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 5, 2014

On Tuesday he did it again on helping to pass Manhattan Beach’s new ban on smoking citywide. Filed under: Bicycles , citizen volunteer , climate change , election , environment , environmental legislation , Environmental Politics , renewable energy Tagged: Duddly Do Right , Manhattan Beach , Mark Burton , Wayne Powell.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

MEP recently banned gasoline vehicles below National Emission Standard I from driving in Beijing. Tags: Brief. The National Emission Standard V is expected to be published by 2015, according to him. China’s National Emission Standards have been mapped to the corresponding Euro standards.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2010

The new restriction will be identical to the current one, which bans private cars in Beijing’s urban areas one work-day a week. Tags: Brief. The average driving speed in Beijing at rush hours has risen by about 15 percent after the vehicle restrictions were implemented, said Guo Jifu, head of the Beijing Transportation Research Center.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 24, 2014

But Ted hasn’t come out against oil drilling and in favor of keeping the ban on oil drilling in Hermosa Beach, which would seem like a no brainer if you’re a South Bay native and supposed to be the green candidate worthy of Henry Waxman’s mantle. . And I’m going to keep asking until we find out.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

A draft report by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Beijing is proposing a ban on exports of the rare earth metals terbium, dysprosium, yttrium, thulium, and lutetium. Tags: Brief. Daily Telegraph. Europium is used in lasers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2009

The earlier version of the proposed regulations triggered a wash of rumors and speculation (incorrect) on the Internet that ARB was going to ban black cars. The requirement was never at any point to limit consumer color choices or ban any colors. Tags: Brief. Source: Hashem Akbari , Berkeley Lab (2008). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Europe is holding firm on requiring compliance with the new refrigerant regulations; European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen recently warned carmakers selling vehicles in the EU that non-compliant vehicles will be banned from sale. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2010

In 1996, EPA promulgated regulations that banned the use of leaded gasoline in highway vehicles; the addition of lead to fuel used in piston-engine powered aircraft was not banned in this action. Tags: Aviation Emissions Fuels. Lead in Avgas. Lead is added to fuel for piston-engine aircraft in the form of tetraethyl lead (TEL).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Adaptation strategies recommended by Guoguang include the banning of biofuels, stockpiling of larger grain reserves to offset annual production fluctuations, and a rapid increase in weather modification strategies such as cloud seeding. Tags: Brief. —Jack Rosebro.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 14, 2010

Plans for a ban on heavy trucks on certain routes in New York have been scrapped. The proposal for a ban in the Finger Lakes area was ditched by the New York State Department of Transportation. Two years ago it had released a draft restricting truck access in Central New York – a ban had been [.].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

ALPA has also asked that the ban of bulk shipments of lithium-metal batteries on passenger aircraft be extended to all-cargo aircraft until packaging standards can be developed. Tags: Brief. ALPA is not calling for new restrictions on what passengers are permitted to bring aboard aircraft.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 11, 2007

Conservative MP Boris Johnson blogs "Banning the G-Wiz sums up Labour" in a most amusingly perverse Tory manner about the issue. They want to ban it, of course. They want Brussels to ban it for them! Tags: ken livingston g-whiz boris johnson electric car times of london new labour reva. It's even wetter than that.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2010

Russia has already issued a ban on exports of wheat, corn, barley, rye and flour from 15 August through to the end of the year due to the wildfires that have devastated the country. Tags: Climate Change Europe. Russia ranks fourth on the global list of wheat exporters. Crop yield forecasts for 2010.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

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Green Cars News

MAY 5, 2010

An Italian mayor has banned his staff from using cars for work and ordered them to get on bikes instead, according to local reports. Tags: Green credentials ban bikes Brucchi Cars mayor staff Teramo.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

With glaciers predicted to recede further due to global warming, the resulting melt may contain chemicals which have been banned or are not widely produced any more. Reading the rings, the scientists were not only able to distinguish pollutants produced in the 1960s and 1970s, but also see the reduction in chemicals after they were banned.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Mr Johnson is proposing a temporary ban on cars and trucks on some of the capital’s busiest roads on days when air pollution is at its most dangerous. Tags: Green cars Latest news Boris Johnson car ban car ban in London freight transport association london London Mayor.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2010

The new services will include electric car recharging points, a ban on fast-food retail giants and locally sourced produce available to motorists travelling along the Gloucester Gateway. Tags: Green credentials electric charging fast-food Gateway Gloucester green M5 Motorway services.

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Green Cars News

JULY 7, 2010

A ban on councils selling green electricity into the national grid is to be overturned, Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne announced today as the carbon footprint of every local council in England was published. Tags: Green credentials carbon councils electricity emission energy production renewable.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2009

In addition to the main cooperative agreement with ESMA, Saft has also signed a distribution agreement for the supercapacitors with KBi (Kold Ban International), a US company specializing in diesel engine starting systems that is already an established ESMA distributor for North America. Tags: Batteries.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2009

It bans cigarette smoking at state beaches and parks. Tags: environmental legislation Surfrider Foundation environment Heal the Bay Environmental Politics Senator Jenny Oropeza SB4. SB 4 is the No Smoking at State Parks and Beaches Act and we need it. And I shouldn’t have to. It’s time we kicked some butts instead.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 1, 2010

Tags: Green cars Latest news CNG buses CNG taxis CNG vehicles compressed natural gas Madrid Madrid diesel ban Spain. Mayor of Madrid Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon made the announcement outlining that diesel models “emit too much NO2”. The action makes Madrid the first European city to act against diesel for environmental [.].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2010

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC Chairman Dr. Rajendra Pachauri formally requested the IAC to conduct the review after the proposal to carry out the review was communicated to IPCC member governments. Tags: Brief. The IAC Secretariat is hosted by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 5, 2010

The rule was initially implemented by the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau one year ago and bans private cars in Beijing’s urban areas one work day a week. Tags: Cars Green cars Latest news Beijing Beijing Traffic Management Bureau car restrictions vehicle restrictions vehicle restrictions in Beijing vehicle rules in Beijing.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2009

Tags: Climate Change Fuel Efficiency. ARB staff had identified glass technology as another way of reducing vehicle cabin temperature and A/C use. ARB Staff Presentation.

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2009

A car ban will be in place in Dublin city’s College Green within four weeks - and it is proving hugely controversial. The ban means that only buses and taxis will be allowed to pass through the College Green area from 7am-10am and from 4pm-7pm from Monday-Friday. However, these measures have not been put into place yet.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The LCFS would essentially ban imports to California of fuels derived from unconventional sources such as oil sands from Canada, oil shale from the Western US, or domestic coal supplies that can be converted into transportation fuels. Tags: Climate Change Fuels Policy. NPRA President Charles T. LCFS Complaint.

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Green Cars News

MAY 28, 2009

That’s the case in the Broadway area as the city placed a ban on five blocks of Broadway as well as two blocks in Herald Square as vehicles attempted to navigate around the newly created pedestrian plazas with pedestrians lounging on lawn chairs and dancing to street musicians.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 25, 2009

Currently, China mines more than 95 per cent of the world’s rare earth metals and now a draft report by the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Beijing is proposing a ban on exports of several of those rare metals.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 4, 2009

A Canadian suburb has banned the use of electric vehicles (EVs), arguing that safety concerns outweigh the environmental benefits. Tags: Electric cars ban Canada EVs. Some provinces, like Ontario making positive steps by signing to Project Better Place to push forward the infrastructure to support EVs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2010

This prompted UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC chair Rajendra K. Tags: Brief. Pachauri to issue a letter on 10 March this year requesting that the IAC review IPCC and recommend ways to strengthen the processes and procedures by which future assessments are prepared.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2010

Alternatively, a society being adversely affected by climate change in forty years time may reasonably decide to ban any remaining petrol/diesel vehicles completely. Tags: Electric (Battery) Europe Fuel Cells Land use Policy Sustainability. In this case the technology assumptions would in a sense, also represent policy interventions.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

It’s buried in the California section and it’s given just a fraction of the ink that the “news&# about the tiny town of Newman’s gets for its move to ban a book with too much cursing in it. Tags: environment.

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Green Cars News

MAY 26, 2009

The latest effort involves the city government banning cars from its city centre streets that don’t have the official green badge that denotes a car’s environmentally friendly emissions status.

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Green Cars News

MAY 14, 2009

There has also been a distribution agreement reached for the supercapacitors with Kold Ban International. Tags: Green cars Latest news battery technologies ESMA Saft supercapacitors. They are ideally suited to heavy vehicles and can be applied in numerous other applications to optimise power and energy storage.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 28, 2009

The ban would apply while research is conducted by the National Academies of Science on the issue, after which, the Secretaries of Agriculture and Energy will, along with the EPA administrator, jointly decide to accept or reject the findings. The report must be completed within three years of enactment of the legislation.

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