Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2010

About a third of the airborne lead particles collected at two sites in the San Francisco Bay Area came from Asia, a finding that underscores the far-flung impacts of air pollution and heralds a new way to learn more about its journey across vast distances. They found that a median value of 29% of the lead particles were of Asian origin.

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Drive Electric

JULY 28, 2021

Faced with the rising threat of climate change, one of the government’s first major steps to combat dangerous levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the country was introduce the Congestion Charge. The London Congestion Charge was first introduced in 2003. You only have to look to the London Congestion Charge for proof of that.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2010

Based on the law of constant travel time budget, the average travel time elasticity of the amount of kilometres equals -1, (average for all modalities) (Van Wee, 1998; Pfleiderer, 2003). Lower speed limits would also improve air pollution, noise nuisance, possibly congestion and traffic safety.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

The Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Technology Program’s Investment Plan allocates $176 million over the next two years to stimulate green transportation projects and encourage innovation to help meet the state’s aggressive climate change policies. Vehicles are the major contributor to global warming pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2016

Prior to forming his consultancy, Shulock was Assistant Executive Officer and Director of Climate Programs at the California Air Resources Board, where he led the Board’s initial implementation of the California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32). Chuck Shulock. Background.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

Funding priorities through the ARFVT Program support fuel and vehicle development to help attain the state’s climate change policies. Replacing older, high-polluting buses and vehicles with new CNG buses and vehicles can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. million ZEVs on the state’s roads.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

The main obstacles will be regulatory and, especially, environmental: Supersonic airliners could be hugely more polluting than their subsonic counterparts. That continued until 2003, when British Airways and Air France retired their fleets, together amounting to just 12 aircraft. was founded by billionaire Robert Bass in 2003.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 8, 2009

In Torrance we don’t want citizens telling politicians what to do or controlling how the industries that pollute in own city act. Eight in 10 (80%) believe steps should be taken right away, a percentage that has increased 7 points since 2003. That’s too much democracy for Torrance. But of course, it shouldn’t be.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

That which they don't kill (EVs in 2003) they hope to delay (FCVs in 2008). The IEEE article contains a germ of hope: thanks to today's climate - economic, political and atmospheric - some consumers are ready to trade range for a car that costs less to run and produces less pollution. CARB Chairwoman Mary Nichols agrees."People

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

Right now the dock workers and the people who live near the ports are choking on the worst air pollution anywhere in the area. Meanwhile the plug-in EV RAV-4s they made in 1997-2003 are still working just fine - the ones they didn’t crush and actually allowed people to buy. This driver told the press he loves his electric truck.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Bush in 2003 committed$1.2 I haven’t heard any discussion of hydrogen since the Bushadministration was getting ready to leave,” said Dan Becker ,director of the Safe Climate Campaign , a group in Washingtonthat works for environmentally “clean” cars. “It Honda’s American depositary receipts fell 66 cents, or2.3 percent, to $27.65

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Until then, we also recommend you look at the FAQ at the Climate Progress Blog and the FAQ by Hybrids-Plus , an after-market converter of hybrid cars, for answers to many questions! Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants? But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

An analysis by Deutsche Bank Climate Advisors, however, suggests that production of 1.1 Automobiles are major contributors to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. South Korea has improved its fuel economy by one third since 2003. million EVs and a fleet of 3.5 million in China is a more realistic projection. l/100 km (52.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Obama noted that last year, US oil production reached its highest level since 2003 and that for the first time in more than a decade, imported oil accounted for less than half the liquid fuel consumed. We have to discover and produce cleaner, renewable sources of energy with less of the carbon pollution that threatens our climate.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007). The interim report just published is intended to contribute to the energy, security and climate debate. At the same time, this would also reduce air pollutants such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen oxides.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The objections they raised for years -- "no one is interested, no one would plug in, the technology is too complex, the benefits are minimal, its just shifting the pollution from the tailpipe to the smokestack, theres no demand for these cars" -- still show up occasionally, but are by and large history. I got beaten down a number of times."

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

But in a year that has seen both a worsening recession and state budget crisis, residents’ support for urgent action on climate change has slipped and a partisan divide on the issue has widened. But in the current economic climate their support has dropped a notch. Californians clearly support policies to improve the environment.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 26, 2024

In no other election in the past century have the stakes been so high for the automotive industry—and on a higher plane, for climate science and for democracy itself. He has deemed climate change to be “ a hoax.” To describe this election as unprecedented perhaps sells it short.

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