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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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

JANUARY 10, 2014

President Obama signed a Memorandum directing his Administration to conduct a Quadrennial Energy Review (QER). This first QER will focus on the development of a comprehensive strategy for the infrastructure involved in transporting, transmitting, and delivering energy.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Their Climate Emergency Response Team went into action at the scene of the crime – The US Chamber of Horrors – I mean Commerce – HQ in DC. View the climate crime scene photos after the jump. Greenpeace Activists place Climate Crime Banners on the exterior of the U.S. I sure wish I could have been there!

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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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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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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 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 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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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

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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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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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 21, 2009

When our South Bay 350 Climate Action Group asked for Congresswoman Jane Harman’s help with our October 24, International Day of Climate Action we got it. I’ve also been pounding away about the climate fate of the vulnerable small island states and sea level rise for many months now. Thank you Congresswoman Harman.

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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

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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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. Is Steven Chu BFF With BP?

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Ever since the Copenhagen climate treaty talks ended in impotence two months ago there hasn’t been a single ounce of positive news on the international scene about our chances of cutting the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and getting CO2 levels back down to the safe 350 ppm zone. 1 city headed for carbon neutral, 87 more to go.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The Exxon/Mobil refinery in Torrance and the Chevron refinery in El Segundo are both located in the South Bay and are each a big part of the carbon-based economy that causes the majority of climate change - although you’ll never get either of these corporations to admit this truth or take responsibility for it.

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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

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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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.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

is a key amplifier of the effects of climate change, efforts to. virtually certain to see Earth’s climate warm by several degrees. mechanism emerges elsewhere in Earth’s climate system,” Dessler said. A-Train” of climate satellites. NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument prior. San Francisco.

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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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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 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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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

President Obama today transmitted the proposed $3.8-trillion billion in applied energy research and development to position the United States as the world leader in energy technology that will address climate change, develop new industries, and create new jobs. trillion FY 2011 Budget to the US Congress. Invests $2.3

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

When Congress passed the Clean Air Act, it never gave EPA the explicit authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions for the purpose of stopping global climate change. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. Executive branch agencies, like EPA, carry out the laws passed by Congress.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2009

” “To deny the mounting science of climate change is to stick our heads in the sand and say ‘deal me out.’ “ The notion of holding the health care of over 300 million Americans hostage in exchange for a handful of coal permits is beyond foolish; it is morally indefensible.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2009

I was there to help Greenpeace collect petition cards urging President Obama to take a stronger leadership role on climate change and to go to Copenhagen and take personal responsibility for the USA’s role in the talks. Tags: Environmental Politics climate change environment solar power 350.org

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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 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

JANUARY 27, 2012

The Advanced Clean Cars package will help clean our air, help us fight climate change, and perhaps most important for average citizens, save thousands of dollars over the life of the vehicles. This marks a new chapter in the history of ARB. ”. This program will make the cleanest cars and the new technologies commonplace. credits.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

Four main results stood out, according to the authors: All the policy scenarios modeled fail to meet the Obama administration’s goal of reducing total US GHG emissions 14% below 2005 levels by 2020. This result clearly illustrates, the authors wrote, that aggressive climate change policy need not bring the economy to a halt.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 7, 2009

For those of you who aren’t boarding the ClueTrain on this issue, just connect the dots between this strategic move on the part of the Obama administration and the opening of the Copenhagen Climate Talks. You can stick a fork in the Chamber now because they are done.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

And what’s working for the Greenius and Mrs. Greenius will work for the rest of America, even the little brain people who aren’t sure if climate change is man-made or not and probably even the Stepford brainwashed pod people who think Al Gore is a bad man. Here’s Something I Bet You Didn’t Know.

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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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