Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2011

A three-year study by a team of researchers based at MIT has concluded that fundamental changes are needed in the US energy-innovation system. For each year of delay it will be necessary to “bend the curve” of carbon emissions that much more sharply if the worst consequences of climate change are to be averted.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2021

This funding will enable Universal Hydrogen to conduct the first test flight of its hydrogen fuel cell powertrain on a 40+ passenger regional airliner in 2022 at Moses Lake, Washington. The gravity of climate change is forcing a tipping point in the green hydrogen ecosystem of producers, distributors, and consumers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2017

The study, from the University of Washington, the University of California Santa Barbara and federal scientists, is published in Nature Climate Change. Ding designed a new sea ice model experiment that combines forcing due to climate change with observed weather in recent decades.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2009

Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski signed into law a series of bills constituting a climate change package that includes a low carbon fuel standard (LCFS), a B2 mandate, and other transportation-related measures. This is similar to legislation passed in Washington and California. House Bill 2626.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

The agreement with Mexico follows similar agreements signed by California in 2013 with the governments of British Columbia and the states of Oregon and Washington and China’s National Development and Reform Commission—the first agreement of its kind on climate change between the commission and a subnational entity.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2009

Washington Governor Chris Gregoire and legislative leaders have introduced a Green Jobs and Climate Action legislative package that proposes investments totaling $455 million in the next biennium for energy-reducing transportation projects, energy efficiency projects, green buildings and clean-energy technology.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 19, 2007

And make one final pitch for American cooperation on climate change. At a Rose Garden press conference within earshot of anti-war protesters beyond the White House gate, Bush's prepared remarks included this: And we talked, of course, about climate change. We spent a lot of time on climate change.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 3, 2010

Luckily for us here on the Best Coast, this gift to the fossil fuel industry excluded any drilling on America’s finest looking and most priceless coastlines – like California’s, Oregon’s and Washington’s. 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

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The statement , endorsed by Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington, DC, describes the goals of such a program, including reducing climate changing pollution, creating economic opportunity, and improving transportation equity for currently underserved and overburdened (..)

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 7, 2024

Decarbonizing utilities: Washington passed the first law in the United States that outlines a pathway for a combined gas and electricity utility to transition away from gas for all of its customers. continued] The post Washington State Passes Cutting-Edge Policies To Reduce Climate Pollution appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2012

Specifically, Resolution 31379 stipulates that: The City of Seattle opposes the establishment of coal export terminals in Washington State and supports economic growth that does not jeopardize Washington State’s commitment to fight the serious impacts of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Our results suggest that gas-aerosol interactions play an important role in methane’s GWP, and hence our larger value would allow better optimization of climate change mitigation policies. Methane’s GWP may also change with time as air quality regulations alter the background state of tropospheric chemistry. Shindell et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

That’s three times the amount estimated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change and stratospheric ozone destruction. This multi-site experiment clearly establishes streams and rivers as important sources of nitrous oxide.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2009

In response to a request from Congress, the National Academies have initiated a suite of studies called America’s Climate Choices designed to inform and guide the US response to climate change. Panels include: Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change. Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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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. ” Tags: Climate Change Policy. by Jack Rosebro. The relative valuation of potential emissions offsets (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

A new NSF-funded study by authors from Yale Law School, the University of Oklahoma and George Washington Law School presents correlational and experimental evidence showing that cultural cognition also shapes individuals’ beliefs about the existence of scientific consensus. —Dan Kahan. —Dan Kahan.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2023

Optimus was founded in 2010 with the mission of combating global climate change by deploying solutions to decarbonize the largest and most challenging transportation and industrial sectors, and it released the Vector System commercially in 2018.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 26, 2009

I love Airtalk with Larry Mantle, I love the Patt Morrision show, I love Off Ramp with John Rabe on the weekends, I love Steve Julian with the local news and I love Kitty Felde reporting from Washington DC. Tags: climate change environment Kitty Felde KPCC FM 89.3 You can listen for yourself right here.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The National Academy of Sciences is hosting an intensive two-day Sackler Colloquium 21-22 May in Washington, DC, to survey state-of-the-art research on science communication and to consider its implications for governance, policy, and public engagement. The Arthur M.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The ACC program—which applies to light-duty vehicles, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty passenger vehicles—comprises four separate regulations to address ambient air quality and climate change. A hearing took place on 19 September 2012 in Washington DC and the comment period closed on 19 October 2012.

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Energy Institute at HAAS

AUGUST 8, 2022

Can the Inflation Reduction Act tackle climate change and inflation at the same time? 18 months ago, Larry Summers wrote an important piece in the Washington Post warning of two … Continue Reading On Inflation, Climate, and Compromise

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2009

” “ Some have even suggested that coal state representatives in Washington should block any advancement of national health care reform legislation until the coal industry’s demands are met by the EPA, ”, wrote Byrd. That is a stubborn fact that vexes some in the environmental community, but it is reality.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2012

A team at George Washington University has demonstrated a new solar process that can produce lime (CaO) for cement without any emission of carbon dioxide, and at lower projected cost than the existing cement industry process. Thus no CO 2 is formed, to eliminate cement’s greenhouse gas contribution to anthropogenic climate change.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Maybe you missed their headline yesterday that read: Scientists: Pace of Climate Change Exceeds Estimates. Facts like this from his blog Climate Progress: The University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center — has become weary of having their data misreported by global warming deniers like Will. million sq.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

I know I should be in Washington DC in two weeks to help take over the capitol on behalf of green jobs, clean energy and ending our carbon-based economy. I know I should be there with the 10,000 young people who are gathering in Washington to hold our elected officials’ feet to the accountability fire. Maybe you really must.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

Chamber of Commerce Building in Washington Dec.

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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.

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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. Nearby Washington DC saw the greatest drop of 90% fewer daily vehicle miles traveled. California has a target of 80% reduction in GHG from 1990 levels by 2050. UC Davis Road Ecology Center).

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Creative Greenius

JULY 26, 2012

From Washington DC as I return from an LED lighting retrofit at the giraffe house in the Maryland Zoo , a project site visit to the waterways of Maryland’s oyster restoration efforts , and meetings with elected officials, nonprofit organizations and potential EcoMedia advertisers. .

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Dr. Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) at George Washington University is developing a solar-driven process that, he says, could efficiently replace current industrial processes for the production of certain energetic molecules such as hydrogen, metals and chlorine, which are responsible for a large component of anthropogenic CO 2. Licht, 2009.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2019

Long-term exposure to ambient air pollutants, especially O 3 (ozone), is significantly associated with increasing emphysema, according to a new study led by the University of Washington, Columbia University and the University at Buffalo. This work in the MESA Air study was led at the University of Washington.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

It could also have a direct impact on climate change, with the potential to reduce the warming expected by 2050 by up to 0.5 Integration of short-lived climate pollutants in World Bank activities : a report prepared at the request of the G8. Washington DC ; World Bank. Black carbon Climate Change Emissions'

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2020

This puffy line is not just exhaust from the engine, but a change in the clouds that’s caused by small airborne particles of pollution. New research led by the University of Washington (UW) is the first to measure this phenomenon’s effect over years and at a regional scale. Michael Diamond/University of Washington. C, or 1.8 ?F,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2010

Without strong action, those numbers are expected to keep rising, but reducing the nation’s impact on global climate change and dependence on oil imports has proved problematic. For policymakers in Washington, taking a systems view is difficult because of the politics involved. Heywood et al.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As the Creative Greenius and organizer of the South Bay Los Angeles 350 Climate Action Group that’s just unacceptable to me. And that’s exactly what we’re doing here locally in the South Bay of Los Angeles, where the score is now. 1 city headed for carbon neutral, 87 more to go.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2021

A new study led by Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Hokkaido University and the University of Washington explains why. We need to understand this multiphase chemistry in the atmosphere to design an efficient strategy to manage air pollution and accurately predict future air pollution and climate change impacts.

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