Green Car Reports

JUNE 2, 2014

Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce new regulations to cut the carbon emissions of more than 600 existing coal-fired electric power plants. And many analysts suggest that this regulation--which will likely spark a major political battle--will be the most important environmental legacy of the Obama.'

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2010

Funding from the Department of Energy will be matched by the grantees to support $75 million in total US research that will focus on advancing technologies for building energy efficiency; low emissions coal including carbon capture and storage; and clean vehicles. Applications are due by 14 May with selections expected this summer.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

President Obama announced that the Department of Energy has offered conditional commitments for a total of $8.33 —President Obama. billion in loan guarantees for the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors at a plant in Burke, Georgia.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2010

Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 20, 2009

President Obama is making good on his promise to spearhead the EV revolution. It’s all part of the Obama administration’s plan get to 1 million plug in hybrids on the road by 2015. Obama At A Town Hall Meeting in Los Angeles, California - March 19, 2009. Tags: EV Economics Obama Energy. The new $2.4-billion

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

President Obama used his last State-of-the-Union (SOTU) address of his term to outline four main elements of a blueprint for an “ economy that’s built to last: an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values. ”. —President Obama.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 25, 2008

Just a the coal companies go on the air with ads that could be Obama campaign commercials, down to the Yes We Can (make coal clean,) the real world intrudes. Tags: clean coal.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2010

US President Barack Obama on Friday signed H.R. Refined Coal. The bill extends through 2011 the placed-in-service deadline for qualifying refined coal facilities. 4853 , the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (“Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010”).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Initial research priorities will be building energy efficiency, clean coal including carbon capture and storage, and clean vehicles. 21 st Century Coal. The two Presidents pledged to promote cooperation on cleaner uses of coal, including large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration projects.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Since Wheeler became the acting administrator last July, he has released plans to unwind rising emissions and attendant fuel economy standards enacted under President Obama, and to rescind California's half-century-old authority to set tighter emissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Panda Power Funds has financed the 1,124 megawatt Panda “Hummel Station” power plant—one of the largest coal-to-natural gas power conversion projects in the United States. The plant will be located at the site of the retired Sunbury coal-fired power plant near Shamokin Dam in Snyder County, Pennsylvania.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 9, 2009

on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 to unfurl a banner that challenges President Obama to show leadership on global warming. Obama is at the G8 meeting in Italy to discuss the global warming crisis with other world leaders. In Italy, the coal plant protesters were still going as night fell. House last month. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

And to support that innovation, we will invest fifteen billion dollars a year to develop technologies like wind power and solar power; advanced biofuels, clean coal, and more fuel-efficient cars and trucks built right here in America.

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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 US and China jointly announced greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets. China’s target to expand total energy consumption coming from zero-emission sources to around 20% by 2030 is “notable”, the White House said.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

President Obama today transmitted the proposed $3.8-trillion billion in tax subsidies for oil, coal and gas industries. Provides $668 million to Fossil Energy R&D for the ”Clean Coal Power Initiative.“ trillion FY 2011 Budget to the US Congress. increase over FY 2009 actuals and a 7.4%

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 2, 2011

Dude was a physician before becoming the Senator from one of America’s dirtiest coal producing states. That might make some Bizarro Planet sense if Barrasso was just an ignorant dolt who didn’t have any education and knew nothing about science – but he can’t cop to that.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 12, 2009

So let me get this straight - while those of us who are trying to lead greener lives, have been cutting our carbon footprints and working with our cities, states and the rest of the USA to help them do likewise, Killer Coal has been playing us for chumps and wiping out all our efforts every single second of every day.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

In his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, President Obama proposed “ we use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an Energy Security Trust that will drive new research and technology to shift our cars and trucks off oil for good. American innovation has given us the greatest industrial capacity on Earth. —President Carter.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The University of Michigan’s award will advance technologies for clean vehicles, while West Virginia University will use its funding to focus on the next generation of coal technologies, including carbon capture and storage. The announcement of another $12.5

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 7, 2009

One of the other big business groups the WSJ is talking about is the motley group of US Senators and US Congress members who got their money directly from the oil, gas and coal industry. We’re going to end the use of coal in this country in the next ten years and we’re going to phase out the use of oil for transportation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

This follows the memorandum of understanding signed between CPECC and USTDA in November as part of the US-China Clean Energy Announcements made by President Obama and President Hu in November 2009. The United States and China are two of the largest consumers of coal for industrial applications and power generation.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Activists are calling on President Obama to show leadership and shed the influence of lobbyists. Tension mounted as the negotiator and activists attempted to convince the Chamber to “put down the coal, step away from the climate talks, and set the world free.”.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2013

However, coal and other fossil fuels still provide 80 percent of our energy, 70 percent of our electricity, and will be a major part of our energy future for decades. The US Energy Information Administration projects increases in US coal utilization in 2013, and other countries have been increasing their imports of coal.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

The 4-7 March Gallup poll was conducted a few weeks before President Obama came out in favor of oil exploration off some sections of the US coast ( earlier post ), and shortly after he advocated the expanded use of nuclear power in the United States. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2013

The assessment comes on the heels of a national climate action plan announced by President Obama. As an acceptable condition for US government support for public financing of new coal plants overseas. Earlier post.). The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that in 2011, the United States emitted 5.5 metric gigatons.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

The new energy-water track was initially announced in November 2014, when President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping renewed their commitment to CERC with $200 million in total funding over five years. This US investment will be matched by an equivalent effort in China, bringing the total bilateral investment to $50 million.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 14, 2017

What Obama-era energy initiative does the EPA (not exactly living up to the P in its name) intend to axe? Which European cities are rapidly putting the brakes on gasoline and diesel cars? It's an increasingly long list.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

new coal-fired power plants. 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

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

The National Hydrogen Association (NHA) and US Fuel Cell Council (USFCC) issued a joint statement criticizing the cuts in the hydrogen and fuel cell vehicle program in the Obama Administration’s FY 2010 budget request for the US Department of Energy. Earlier post.). The budget request includes a 59.6%

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 11, 2013

They hold President Obama in even lower esteem and yeah, being black has a whole lot to do about it. And now Lordy Lord, many of these very same folksy folks have been pulling the exact same con man tactics on behalf of the oil coal and gas industries. . Maybe because they never have or maybe because they believe it’s worth it.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2011

The US Department of Energy has selected 16 projects for almost $29 million in funding to develop advanced post-combustion technologies for capturing carbon dioxide from coal–fired power plants. The application of ultrasonic energy forces dissolved CO 2 into gas bubbles. DOE share: $1,620,794; recipient share: $422,269. Battelle (PNNL).

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The remaining 20% is allocated for coal. direct subsidies to the fossil fuel industry at roughly $20 billion per year; with 20% currently allocated to coal and 80% to natural gas and crude oil,” the EESI wrote. . trillion worth of subsidies granted for the production and burning of coal, oil, and gas in 2020.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

Indeed I am talking about Big Dick Cheney, who in addition to his many other immoral and criminal acts also shamelessly promoted the excessive use of oil, coal, gasoline and other fossil fuels by encouraging Americans to use all the energy they could afford to put on their credit cards. The Big Dick Cheney Effect.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2016

CERC-TRUCK program was announced in September 2015 by President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, with its consortium partners, has pledged an equivalent amount of resources, bringing the total bilateral effort to $50 million over 5 years.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

Last week, the Obama administration announced new fuel economy standards for automobiles that provides some incentives for electric cars. On the national level, the Obama administration has set the goal of 1 million plug-in hybrids on U.S. Tags: EV Chargers EV Economics Obama Energy New York City. That represents only 1.43

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

Under CERC, 4 pairs of US and Chinese consortia are operating collaboratively on 4 technical tracks: Advanced Coal Technologies with Carbon Capture, Utilization and/or Sequestration. President Obama and President Xi Jinping announced a renewal and expansion of the CERC in November 2014. Building Energy Efficiency. Clean Vehicles.

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