Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

Last week, the California Energy Commission carried out one of these initiatives, voting to use nearly $50 million to put in place 28 new, public hydrogen refueling stations and one mobile refueler by the end of 2015. Scott, the California Energy Commission’s lead commissioner on transportation. Earlier post.). —Chairman Nichols.

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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.

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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

JUNE 18, 2011

Shifting from nuclear to other types of power plants could affect the reliability of the electricity supply, electricity costs, air pollution, carbon emissions, and the reliance on fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas, the researchers said. —Paul Fischbeck. The model and background information can be downloaded from: [link].

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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. Virgin Islands): EPA is requesting proposals between $500,000 and $1,800,000. Region 2 (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, U.S.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Department of Energy (DOE) released a report suggesting that, in theory, over 300 former and present coal power plants could be converted to nuclear. A lot of communities that may have not traditionally been looking at advanced nuclear, or nuclear energy in general, are now being incentivized to look at it,” says Victor Ibarra Jr. ,

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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. Graham recently declared, “ Economy-wide cap-and-trade is dead. ”

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Plug in America

APRIL 30, 2021

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. 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.

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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. But much more action was taken during his time in Minnesota than we’ve covered here.

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