Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2018

A coalition of nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia announced their intent to design a new regional low-carbon transportation policy proposal that would cap and reduce carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels, and invest proceeds from the program into low-carbon and more resilient transportation infrastructure. (..)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2021

The electric buses will replace CTA’s oldest diesel buses and reduce greenhouse gases in communities that have experienced air pollution and other environmental health hazards, improving public health and quality of life. By retrofitting the garage to service electric buses, the agency will also lower pollution in the surrounding community.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2013

The project was completed on schedule and power is being delivered to the electric grid under a 15-year energy purchase agreement with a Connecticut electric utility. The project is located on a remediated brownfield site in an industrial area of Bridgeport, Connecticut, using only about 1.5 acres of land to provide 14.9

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Trucks are increasingly a major contributor to air pollution nationwide, but especially in our cities where they are among the largest sources of toxic emissions in vulnerable neighborhoods. The board is expected to consider the first-of-its-kind regulation for adoption next year. —CARB Chair Mary D.

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Teslarati

APRIL 7, 2024

While the sensors also monitored other pollutants, including particulates and nitrogen oxide, Cohen says this particular study was focused on measuring carbon dioxide emissions. million units in 2023 , according to Cox Automotive data, with California , Washington, New Jersey, Connecticut and Texas making up the top five adopters.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

The change to biofuels reduces carbon dioxide emissions resulting in less pollution. These sustainable fuels are produced from renewable resources and are considered drop-in fuels that blend with traditional fossil fuels without any equipment changes. —Greg Cox, Executive Vice President, General Aviation, AEG Fuels.

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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 Annual pollution-related impacts drop by more than 85% due to fewer lost work days caused by pollution-related illnesses, fewer asthma attacks and fewer premature deaths.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2021

Nonprofit organizations may apply if they provide pollution reduction or educational services to diesel fleet owners or promote air quality and clean transportation. Eligible applicants include regional, state, local or tribal agencies, or port authorities with jurisdiction over transportation or air quality.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

A coalition of 11 states filed a lawsuit to compel the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promptly to revise national air quality standards for air pollution involving soot. The EPA had failed to meet an October 2011 deadline for revising the existing standards. EPA last revised the standards in 2006.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Nonprofit organizations may apply if they provide pollution reduction or educational services to diesel fleet owners or have, as their principal purpose, the promotion of transportation or air quality. Under this competition, EPA anticipates awarding between 40 and 60 assistance agreements. Region 2 (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, U.S.

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Teslarati

JUNE 18, 2023

Several states have outlawed the practice , such as Maine, Utah, New Jersey, Maryland, Colorado, and Connecticut, but other states are yet to follow. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has spoken up against coal rolling, however, noting that the practice is a major source of air pollution.

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Electric Auto Association

JUNE 3, 2022

EVA member Daphne Dixon, the Executive Director and Co-founder of Live Green Connecticut , as well as Executive Director of Connecticut Southwestern Area Cities coalition, plans to drive an EV cross-country to make the point that continued anxiety among women about electric vehicle (EV) range is unnecessary and that it has to end soon.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The other seven states—Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—account for more than 135,000 vehicles. Zero-emission vehicles are vital to Massachusetts’ efforts to cut air pollution from the transportation sector and stimulate growth in the clean energy economy. million by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

FuelCell Energy will install a sub-megawatt carbonate fuel cell power plant at its manufacturing facility in Torrington, Connecticut, to generate hydrogen, electricity and heat, replacing hydrogen that is currently purchased and delivered to the facility via truck, and replacing electricity purchased from the electric grid. announced a $2.8-million

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Nonprofit organizations may apply if they provide pollution reduction or educational services to diesel fleet owners or have, as their principal purpose, the promotion of transportation or air quality. Under this competition, EPA anticipates awarding between 10 and 40 awards. Region 2 (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, U.S.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

A specific challenge would-be-conversions must face is that the NRC’s standards—both for atmospheric pollution and for the amount of radiological material a reactor can release—are much tighter than federal standards for coal plants.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2012

The ultimate goal is the generation of efficient, cost-competitive electricity from domestic coal with near-zero emissions of carbon dioxide and air pollutants. University of Connecticut. The projects include: ?. Topic Area 1: Electrochemical Performance Enhancement Activity. Boston University. Georgia Tech Research Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

Making the transition to cleaner, lower polluting near-zero and zero-emission vehicles is a critical component to addressing California’s clean air and climate challenges. efforts among California, New York, Maryland, Connecticut, Oregon, Massachusetts, Vermont. —Chairman Nichols. and Rhode Island.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2014

NOAA­-supported modeling is forecasting this year''s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone to cover an area ranging from about 4,633 to 5,708 square miles (12,000 to 14,785 square kilometers) or about the size of the state of Connecticut.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

There’s a storm brewing in the USA– and its all over the national air quality standards for air pollution released by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District is replacing 48 trucks model year 1991-2003 with trucks powered by 2013 or newer model year engines. The Connecticut Maritime Foundation is repowering two Tier 0 marine propulsion engines in one ferry with Tier 3 engines. Louis Clean Cities is replacing six school busses.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2018

SOFC technologies enable efficient, cost-effective electricity generation from abundant domestic coal and natural gas resources, with minimal use of water and near-zero atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2016

In 2013, the Governors of eight of the ZEV states (including California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to place 3.3 Chuck Shulock. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2014

A better understanding of the cool flames’ chemistry might help improve internal combustion engines in cars, for example by developing homogenous-charge compression ignition, which could potentially lead to engines that burn fuel at cooler temperatures, emitting fewer pollutants such as soot and nitric oxide and NO x , while still being efficient.

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EV Club of CT

JULY 7, 2021

Post by Analiese Paik and Barry Kresch EVs Are Essential to Mitigating the Climate Crises We’re in a climate crisis and each of us should be taking action, regardless of state and federal policy. Read more.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

s Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project. This initiative demonstrates and promote of the feasibility of alternative fuel sources, education and public outreach, and reduction of pollution/emissions. Total DOE award: $13,299,101. Greater New Haven Clean Cities Coalition, Inc.’s Total DOE award: $5,924,190.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The creation of electric vehicle infrastructure along I-95 is part of an initiative organized by the Clean Corridor Coalition, a project to develop a regional approach to decreasing emissions from Maryland to Connecticut. This grant is a huge step forward for Delaware.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 24, 2022

“The climate crisis is solvable if we focus on the big, bold steps necessary to stem the tide of carbon pollution,” Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement. The implications of CARB making these groundbreaking changes will ultimately affect other states as well. all conform to CARB’s standards.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 26, 2024

I learned, too, that reaches of the river acclaimed by Melville , Ives and Longfellow were laden with PCBs , an industrial pollutant. and then parallels the Hudson River to the west and the Connecticut River to the east on its approximately 150-mile journey south toward Long Island Sound.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Not my own City of Torrance, still content to suck at the monetary teat of the Torrance Refinery which continues to leak, flare and spew toxic pollution into the air we breathe every second of every day. So did Hoboken, New Jersey; New Britain, Connecticut; and Montgomery County, Maryland here in the USA.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2017

The Advanced Clean Cars program was approved as an integrated regulatory package in January 2012, brining together LEV III standards for criteria pollutants and greenhouse gas standards. Senior environmental officials from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Oregon testified at the hearing on Friday to urge the Board’s approval.

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Plug in America

APRIL 30, 2021

That same day, the administration announced a reversal of the Trump-era rule that California would not be able to set its own rigorous air pollution rules. While he didn’t mention EVs by name, we know that there is no way to get there without a dramatic surge in electric vehicles fueled by clean energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION.

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Electric Auto Association

MAY 20, 2021

Putting the brake on regional pollution Also in December, Massachusetts, along with Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Washington D.C., announced the launch of a groundbreaking program that invests $300 million per year in cleaner transportation choices and healthier communities.?

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

California's zero-emission rules [claims it] will cut by 25 percent smog-causing pollution from light-duty vehicles by 2037. Due largely to possessing the ability to self-regulate, California is known for having some of the strictest emission rules in the country. percent of U.S. vehicles sold in 2022 that were EVs.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 8, 2024

However, the CEO of the nation’s largest EV company, whose personal and corporate mission is supposedly to ensure a transition to sustainable transport, is still backing a ticket that routinely lies about EVs and would subsidize polluting gas vehicles. The puck is going to be in EV vehicles, and that is irrefutable.”

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