Climate Change Rhode Island Tax 
Green Car Congress
MAY 2, 2020
If traffic remained reduced for one year, the reduction in VMT would allow California to meet half of its 2050 climate change target. Drivers there and in the surrounding states of New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont drove at least 80% fewer miles after shelter-in-place directives began.
Green Energy Consumers
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Recently, electric vehicles (EVs) have been in the news because various states around the country including our very own Rhode Island are introducing extra registration fees for EVs.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 27, 2019
Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and the Chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, today signed a new cooperation agreement to advance cleaner vehicles and fuels. Combined, these states and California constitute more than 40% of the US passenger vehicle market.
Green Energy Consumers
MARCH 10, 2022
Some politicians in Massachusetts and Rhode Island are calling on their state governments to reduce or eliminate the gas tax in response to rising prices since Russia invaded Ukraine a couple weeks ago. That’s an awful idea and political pandering at its worst.
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 —Bonnie Holmes-Gen, senior director of Air Quality and Climate Change with the American Lung Association in California. Rhode Island: $407 million.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
On the state level, no fewer than 12 —California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont—all have their own conditions restricting new nuclear construction. Even if regulations didn’t stand in the way, coal-to-nuclear conversion has never been done.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 20, 2014
In addition, although many experts say that the solution to our energy and climate problems is sending the correct price signals to industry and consumers, the transport sector’s behavior is highly inelastic in that it does not change significantly in response to changes in fuel prices, at least in the range that is politically acceptable.
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