Green Car Reports

JANUARY 30, 2014

Once again, President Barack Obama used the State of the Union Address on Tuesday night to raise the issue of natural gas vehicles as a way of promoting energy independence and cutting the impact of climate change. In his talk, Obama urged the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx joined President Barack Obama to announce that $600 million will be made available to fund transportation projects across the country under a sixth round of the US Department of Transportation’s Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery ( TIGER ) competitive grant program. 2014 TIGER NOFA.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

The two leaders discussed practical ways the United States and Canada could encourage the development of clean energy technologies to reduce greenhouse gases and combat climate change. What we’ve heard during the last couple of days from President Obama is he’s clearly speaking Alberta’s language,” Stelmach added.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

President Barack Obama announced that the Federal Government will reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 28% by 2020. On 5 October 2009, President Obama signed Executive Order 13514 on Federal Sustainability, setting measurable environmental performance goals for Federal Agencies. Copenhagen.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

Over the past 60 years, climate change has caused the Alaskan Arctic to warm twice as rapidly as the rest of the United States, and will continue to transform the Arctic as its consequences grow more severe.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I voted for Barack Obama and I worked hard campaigning to get him elected. I would do it again and I’m proud of the small contribution I made to achieve change. After the jump I’ll share what I said on Climate Progress about it yesterday, and you can read Bill McKibben’s comment there too. Not even close.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Obama's choice for Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, apparently can't be faulted for his dedication to dealing with climate change. Just when it seemed the overhyped promise of biofuels was diminishing, it may prove to have a second life under Obama. Plug-in advocates are going to have our work cut out for us.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

US President Barack Obama said the US will cut net greenhouse gas emissions in the US by 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025. The Administration said the United States will submit its 2025 target to the Framework Convention on Climate Change as an “Intended Nationally Determined Contribution” no later than the first quarter of 2015.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The EPA recently announced it will roll back the Clean Power Plan, one of former President Obama's milestone efforts to fight climate change, and now the agency plans to axe another rule limiting emissions. Next on the chopping block is a regulation that limits emissions from large trucks and their components.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 18, 2009

President Obama’s on Air Force One flying home from Copenhagen as I write this and while the final details of the side deal he cut with a handful of countries outside the UN process aren’t fully known yet, one thing is already certain. The deal he negotiated isn’t ambitious, it isn’t fair and it isn’t binding.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

The solicitation calls for the formation of a US-based consortium to work with Chinese counterparts to bolster collaborative efforts to help ensure energy, water, and environmental security and combat climate change. term threat of climate change. The consortium will be funded with $12.5 million DOE support and $12.5

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

president Barack Obama will propose a tax of $10 per barrel on oil in the 2017 budget he will submit to Congress next week. You have to give the man credit for vision.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 3, 2010

It’s perfectly obvious that President Obama is attempting to reach out to the right and members of Congress who are owned by the oil industry with his move this week to make offshore drilling part of his energy mix. That climate change will be even worse by the time this dead dinosaur fluid gets pumped out of the ground.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2013

General Motors is the first automaker among 40 major US companies to sign a “ Climate Declaration ,” collectively asserting that responding to climate change is good business. In March, GM CEO Dan Akerson called on President Obama to appoint a Blue Ribbon Commission to develop a 30-year policy framework for energy security.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

President Obama announced that the Department of Energy has offered conditional commitments for a total of $8.33 To meet our growing energy needs and prevent the worst consequences of climate change, we need to increase our supply of nuclear power and today’s announcement helps to move us down that path. —President Obama.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2012

These Big Data projects will improve our understanding of issues such as species response to climate change, earthquake recurrence rates, and the next generation of ecological indicators. National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health - Core.

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Plug in America

MARCH 25, 2022

It all started with President Barack Obama and as DEED begins, we’re taking the opportunity to briefly revisit the tale, with a related nod to the mother of climate change policy, as former Sen. But how did NDEW come about? Fran Pavley is well known. Gavin Newsom (then San Francisco’s mayor), Washington Gov.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 2, 2011

228) that would bar the federal government from implementing any law or regulation related to climate change, whether it has to do with cutting industrial greenhouse gas emissions or not. Barrasso, a rightwing whack job from Wyoming, introduced a bill (S.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2015

The United States submitted its target to cut net greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Last November, President Obama and President Xi of China, announced the respective post-2020 climate targets for the United States and China.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2010

President Obama’s Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), co-chaired by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE), delivered a series of recommendations to the president on overcoming the barriers to the widespread, cost-effective deployment of CCS within 10 years.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2016

Freight hauling by trucks is a significant source of energy consumption and pollution around the world, and the fuel savings promised by the technology advances under this CERC-TRUCK program will help to combat climate change while advancing low-carbon economies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. And we will put Americans to work making our homes and buildings more efficient so that we can save billions of dollars on our energy bills.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

In the 5 topics areas of the FOA, the proposed project will focus on cost-effective measures to improve the on-road freight efficiency of medium- and heavy-duty trucks by greater than 50% (compared to the 2016 baseline truck) to reduce transportation’s fuel use and climate change impacts. Background. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

With President Obama and the rest of the leaders of the world’s biggest polluting nations kicking the ball down the field on climate change and effectively pulling the rug out from under all of us who have been targeting the Copenhagen climate talks as the moment we must seize, our response must recognize the obvious.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

WATCH THIS : These same grotesqueries of public service are responsible for selling out our environment and our climate in exchange for the support and money they get from industries that cause the most global warming. I will grant you that there was nobody more laughably hysterical during the election than Jokemiester McCain.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2009

The proposed cause or contribute finding concludes that that the combined emissions of CO 2 , CH 4 , N 2 O, and HFCs from new motor vehicles and motor vehicle engines contribute to the atmospheric concentrations of these key greenhouse gases and hence to the threat of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Finance structures would be created and funded by developed countries, encouraging developing countries and emerging economies to minimize future emissions and adapt to future effects of climate change. by Jack Rosebro. The relative valuation of potential emissions offsets (e.g.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

For example, if you look at the page on Obama you find: * The keywords on the left are ordered according to their relationship to the current term. So you can see that Climate Change , Environment , Standards , Solar and other such terms all relate heavily to Obama according to what people talk about. * Obama on cars.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 7, 2009

With Barack Obama’s energy bill stalling in the Senate, US negotiators don’t really know what they can offer and Obama is playing his cards close to his chest, with a 14-20 per cent cut from 2005 carbon emission levels by 2020 seeming to be its best offer. The US and China are widely accepted as the two key players in negotiations.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2020

each year through model year 2026, as compared with the standards issued under the Obama administration in 2012, which would have required about 5% annual increases. The SAFE rule reduces the increase in stringency of CAFE and CO 2 emissions to about 1.5%

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2019

As states take the lead in confronting climate change, a flagship policy is often Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS). The Obama Administration’s central estimate of the SCC would be approximately $50 per ton in today’s dollars.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

Having these [stations] in place will help fight climate change.” In 2018 he was in the inaugural cohort of the Obama Foundation ’s Leaders Africa program. Orajaka and the other founders have set their sights higher than just providing off-grid rural areas with electricity. Established by former U.S.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 22, 2010

citizen volunteer climate change environment 350.org How much more sense could it possibly make to develop an alternative transportation network that links all our cities and interconnect our South Bay neighborhoods to our schools, workplaces, community centers, shopping centers and retail stores, libraries, restaurants and services.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 30, 2010

Cap and trade has been a burning issue in the US ever since the Obama administration won office and in the European Union the Emission Trading Scheme is well established. The Green Piece Column. Tuesday 30 March 2010. However, just how much do we really know about offsets, which are at the heart of cap and [.].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

During the UN Climate Summit this week, the Obama administration is sure to promote the regulatory actions it has taken to reduce climate change emissions from stationary sources such as power plants. The increased GHG emissions are equal to putting an additional 4.4 new coal-fired power plants.

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Green Cars News

MAY 7, 2009

The Obama administration has confirmed its committment to meet the 2007 ‘Renewable Fuels Standard’ yet has added caps on the use of grain-based ethanol to address concerns over negative impact associated with their use such as greenhouse emissions, increased food prices and land clearing. “As Jackson said.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

There are indications that the Obama Administration in the US is seeking to harmonize Federal fuel economy standards (CAFE) and California vehicle greenhouse gas emissions regulations (AB1493, Pavley). Tags: Canada Climate Change Emissions Policy. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). (A A hat-tip to Bob!).

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