Cars That Think

AUGUST 4, 2022

It is true that Rhode Island is small. Today, it might seem a bit optimistic to pin hopes for renewable energy on a state that still gets 89 percent of its electricity from natural gas. But Rhode Island plans to fill the gap with as much as 600 megawatts of new wind power. And Rhode Island has done that.”.

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Green Energy Consumers

MARCH 31, 2023

The ACCII standards will ensure that Massachusetts residents have access to the full range of electric vehicle model choices and that the Commonwealth phases out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. Rhode Island, meanwhile, is slow-walking on these important standards.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2022

After passenger cars and light-duty trucks, medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses are the next largest source of transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions in the US. Rhode Island. Since 2018, the State has leveraged more than $16.5 Other signatories to the memorandum of understanding include: California. Connecticut.

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Green Energy Consumers

MARCH 25, 2023

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released it s most recent report , which states in no uncertain terms that we need to increase the pace of greenhouse gas emissions reductions. What does this latest internation al call for urgency and speed mean for our work here in Massachusetts and Rhode Island?

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Rhode Island Massachusetts Climate Change Climate 96

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule requires the sale of at least 30% zero-emission trucks by 2030; the HDV Omnibus rule requires a 90% reduction in NO x emissions from Model Year 2027 engines; and the California Phase 2 greenhouse gas rule sets standards to improve the efficiency of tractor-trailers.

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District of Columbia California DC Emissions 435

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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Teslarati

JULY 31, 2023

A former Stop & Shop location in Providence, Rhode Island, is expected to be transformed into a new Tesla service center and showroom. Tesla’s first store in Rhode Island opened its doors in July 2019. As per Rhode Island Energy, there are currently about 500 electric vehicle charging stations in the state.

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Green Energy Consumers

APRIL 4, 2022

On Friday, Superior Court Judge Brian Stern put a pause on PPL's purchase of Rhode Island's electric and gas utility from National Grid.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2023

Natural gas 87.9 For example, the dominant source in Rhode Island is natural gas (90.9%), in West Virginia it is coal (90.8%), in Washington it is hydro (64.6%), and in New Hampshire it is nuclear (56.5%). Natural gas 4.1 Energy source Proportional amount of emissions relative to hydro Coal 175.9 Geothermal 16.5

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West Virginia Emissions Carbon Vermont 345

Green Energy Consumers

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Recently, electric vehicles (EVs) have been in the news because various states around the country including our very own Rhode Island are introducing extra registration fees for EVs. Its just way bigger than EVs versus gas cars. However, the question of how to fund our roads and bridges is a fair one.

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Green Energy Consumers

MARCH 3, 2025

(Rhode Islanders this is a story about Massachusetts, but it applies to the Ocean State just as well, given the Act on Climate.) Its jointly administered by the investor-owned gas and electric utilities and the Cape Light Compact. Mass Save is the Commonwealths major energy efficiency program.

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Rhode Island Massachusetts Gas-Electric Climate 72

Green Energy Consumers

JUNE 14, 2021

A few months ago, news broke that National Grid planned to sell the Narragansett Electric and Gas Companies to a Pennsylvania-based company named PPL. In its deal with PPL, National Grid hopes to gain PPL’s business in the U nited Kingdom in exchange for Rhode Island’s electric and gas customers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

States signing the MOU are: California, Connecticut, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding to 43 transit agencies for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities. The proposed replacement vehicles include small gas/electric hybrid buses. Minneapolis-St.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2009

that commits their states to continued participation in a regional effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fuels for vehicles and other uses. Signing the Memorandum of Understanding were the Governors from Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.

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Carbon Fuel Massachusetts Emissions 210

Green Energy Consumers

MARCH 10, 2022

Some politicians in Massachusetts and Rhode Island are calling on their state governments to reduce or eliminate the gas tax in response to rising prices since Russia invaded Ukraine a couple weeks ago. That’s an awful idea and political pandering at its worst.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2014

This land area is larger than the State of Rhode Island and almost as large as the State of Delaware. The stationary fuel cell power plants manufactured by FuelCell Energy are fuel flexible, capable of operating on natural gas, on-site renewable biogas, or directed biogas. million acres of U.S.

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Green Energy Consumers

DECEMBER 27, 2022

On December 15th, Rhode Island's Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council (EC4) approved the final draft of the 2022 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Plan. Green Energy Consumers, unfortunately, found the Plan lacking in several ways, which we will detail in this blog.

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Rhode Island Climate Climate Change Green 121

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

The Memorandum of Understanding commits both governments to work together on developing their respective regulations to cut greenhouse gas emissions from light-duty vehicles, such as those currently in effect in Canada, California and the 13 US states that have adopted California’s standards.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2020

The authors used the VMT data to calculate that emissions of US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were reduced by 4% in total and by 13% from transportation in the almost 8 weeks since many stay-at-home orders went into effect. All states reduced their vehicle miles traveled by at least 60%. UC Davis Road Ecology Center).

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Fuel Tax Tax Emissions Rhode Island 243

Green Energy Consumers

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Rhode Island ’s Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council (EC4) needs your input on their draft chapter s of the 2022 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Plan: P riority A ctions within the Electric, Transportation, and Thermal Sectors. Comments are due by December 2 nd. You can access the draft chapters here.

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Rhode Island Gas Emissions Climate Change 101

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is [link] about $11 million to 20 new projects to help states and local governments to develop the infrastructure, training, and regional planning needed to help meet the demand for alternative fuel cars and trucks, including vehicles that run on natural gas, electricity, and propane. Gas Technology.

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Green Energy Consumers

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

One of the biggest questions in Rhode Island’s clean energy future is on the verge of conclusion: will Pennsylvania-based utility PPL succeed in buying National Grid’s Rhode Island electric and gas utilities? If the sale goes through, PPL will become the new utility company for almost all Rhode Islanders.

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Green Energy Consumers

MAY 20, 2024

This year, our top priority is the Building Decarbonization Act ( H7617 / S2952 ), as Rhode Island is not currently on track to achieve the emissions reductions required by the Act on Climate, and that is especially true in the building sector which makes up over a third of the state's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Rhode Island Building Climate Emissions 112

Green Energy Consumers

MAY 3, 2022

Rhode Island is headed in the wrong direction when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. And it underscores the challenge before Rhode Island in meeting the 2021 Act on Climate mandate of 45% emissions reductions from the 1990 baseline in 2030.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The states of Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland, and Rhode Island have already begun the process and are expected to adopt the regulations in 2023, according to ChargEVC. If adopted, the ACC II regulation would require automobile manufacturers to increase their zero-emission sales of light-duty vehicles to 100% by 2035.

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Green Energy Consumers

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Massachusetts and Rhode Island have both committed to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Achieving these required reductions means zeroing out emissions associated with heating our homes and businesses, which means phasing out the combustion of fossil fuels for heat.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

The transportation sector accounts for about 40 percent of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. Institute of Gas Technology (1 mobile refueling station). and Rhode Island. Air Liquide Industrial US LP (1 station). ITM Power, Inc. (1 1 station). Hydrogen Technology & Energy Corporation (1 station). 1 station).

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Hydrogen California Electric Vehicles Rhode Island 255

Teslarati

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Missouri State Attorney General commented, “If California can set restrictive ‘gas emissions’ standards, manufacturing becomes astronomically expensive, and those additional costs are passed onto consumers, many of which are Missourians.” Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Sensitivity simulations suggest snow/ice scavenging is important for gas-phase PAHs, and on-particle oxidation and temperature-dependency of gas-particle partitioning have greater effects on transport than irreversible partitioning or increased particle concentrations.

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MIT Transportation Rhode Island Building 218

Green Energy Consumers

AUGUST 12, 2022

Last week, the Environment Council of Rhode Island (ECRI) hosted a forum for candidates running RI Governor to discuss their plans for the environment if elected. The forum covered several of Rhode Island’s most pressing environmental issues, including environmental justice and implementation of the Act On Climate.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Photo: Worldview Films via Vineyard Wind 1 Massachusetts and Rhode Island have selected 2,878 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind power in the region’s first-ever coordinated procurement. million homes in Massachusetts, cutting carbon emissions by an amount equivalent to removing 1 million gas-powered cars from the road.

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Rhode Island Massachusetts Wind Solar 52

Green Energy Consumers

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Rhode Island and Massachusetts both have mandates to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 compared to 1990 levels: 50% for Massachusetts and 45% for Rhode Island.

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Green Energy Consumers

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In our work, we pay close attention to the agencies regulating the electric and gas utilities. In Rhode Island, that’s the Public Utilities Commission (PUC); in Massachusetts, that’s the Department of Public Utilities (DPU). Both commissions have always had a big job – regulating what economists call "natural monopolies."

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Green Energy Consumers

MAY 20, 2021

If you’re like 9 9 % of Massachusetts and Rhode Island drivers, the car you own no w has an internal combustion engine (ICE) that runs on gasoline. N ow might be a smart time to trade in your gas-powered car for an EV. Here’s why.

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Rhode Island Massachusetts Electric Cars Cars 104

Green Energy Consumers

MARCH 7, 2023

By phasing out fluorescents in favor of efficient LED bulbs, Rhode Island and Massachusetts can avert a needless health risks, save families and business money on utility bills, and curb greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Energy Consumers

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a cap-and-invest program among Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states to reduce CO2 emissions from the power sector, is currently undergoing its third program review.

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