Law and Environment

AUGUST 11, 2022

This bill includes a number of key advancements for increased adoption of zero emission vehicles and clean transportation throughout the Commonwealth. This law should go a long way in increasing the percentage of ZEVs and helping the Commonwealth achieve its clean transportation goals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

billion tons of greenhouse gases each year, resulting in the transportation sector being the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors. What’s more, public transportation use leads to more daily physical activity, as commuters often walk or bike to transit stops. Vehicles emit 1.5

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What GAO Found According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), state departments of transportation (state DOT) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPO) play a key role in implementing activities to reduce transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions, including on-road emissions from vehicles. Download the report.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Transportation emissions are the largest producer of greenhouse gases in Washington state. This year, the state Legislature has a unique opportunity to pass a transportation package that supports investments for sustainable and climate-focused transportation systems. 45th Street. Multi-modal investments.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 24, 2024

The nexus between direct air capture technology and CO2 emissions in the transport sector. DAC technologies are … Continue reading The nexus between direct air capture technology and CO2 emissions in the transport sector Applied Energy, 363, 123112. C above preindustrial levels.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

With proposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring GHG disclosure and new state statutes, including a new Maryland law that requires not only disclosure, but also a mandated reduction in GHG emissions, a greater appreciation of the subject of GHG appears in order.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 10, 2022

EPA has now formally restored its waiver under § 209(b) of the Clean Air Act that allows California’s greenhouse gas emissions standards and Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, notwithstanding the preemption of state vehicle emission standards contained in § 209(a) of the CAA. My friend J.B. Time to get to work.

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Frontiers

JULY 11, 2021

New research published by the open access publisher Frontiers inventories greenhouse gas emissions of 167 globally distributed cities. The study shows that just 25 mega-cities produce 52% of the greenhouse gas emissions from the studied cities. Stationary energy and transportation were the two main sources of emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 14, 2023

While most sectors – including electricity, steel, cement and construction – are successfully driving down emissions, oil and gas and transportation are moving in the wrong direction. In second place is transportation, which also saw increased emissions from last year, though a reduction from 2005. We need credible data.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

This is one of the main reasons why transportation is the second largest source of carbon pollution in Canada. Canada currently has goals to increase the adoption of zero-emission vehicles but no targets to increase the use of public transportation and active transportation (such as walking and cycling).

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Governments across the United States are for the first time regulating greenhouse gas emissions. If it is January 1, 2024, most commercial building owners not already measuring greenhouse gas emissions for reporting to the government under the Maryland Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, may be in violation of law.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

CARB’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) seeks to incentivize the production and sale of alternative, lower emissions transportation fuels in order to displace conventional fossil fuels. To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Candidate at UCLA Law (2L) Last week, Assemblymember Dr. Joaquin Arambula introduced AB 2623 , a bill designed to guard California communities against the dangers of transporting carbon dioxide in pipelines. You might be familiar with carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

million in 2022 Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant funding to help municipalities, schools, and businesses around the state switch to clean transportation and improve air quality in their communities. A growing number of organizations and businesses in Pennsylvania want to lower their transportation emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2022

Can we really make a difference by changing our transportation system? Transportation is about getting where we need to go—to where we live, where we play, where we work, where we pray. Public transit can provide another way of getting around that is more accessible to all and reduces transportation emissions. Is this true?

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As LIPA Council-Member Tom Falcone pointed out, the existing gas distribution system could be transitioned to transport hydrogen. Scenario 3 includes a very limited role for bioenergy and hydrogen combustion with accelerated electrification of buildings and transportation.

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Puma aims to reduce its Scopes 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 35% by 2025 from a 2017 baseline. It also plans to cut its Scope 3 emissions tied to its value chain for purchased goods and services by 60% by 2030, achieved primarily by focusing on the transport of goods and cutting down on its air freight by.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) isn’t listening to people and communities. . For instance, the MTO claimed that greenhouse gas emissions would decrease as a result of the highway being built. A presentation filled with inaccuracies. The consultants did present a lot of information. The solution.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Fortunately, we already have readily available ways to create a more sustainable transportation future for everyone right now , no matter where they live. By providing a bedrock of sustainable transportation alternatives, we can create livable cities where more people live closer to places they want to go – and also stop sprawl.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 10, 2023

power emissions to decline, emissions from buildings and transportation went up in 2022. Though renewable energy surpassed coal generation for the first time in 60 years, causing U.S.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The Low Carbon solutions division is targeting greenhouse gas reductions in hard-to-decarbonize sectors such as heavy industry, commercial transportation, and power generation using a combination of lower-emission fuels, hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 17, 2023

greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Here’s why: Every other sector of the economy, especially transportation and energy, is expected to reduce emissions dramatically. Read the full story from the Environmental Working Group. Agriculture could produce more than a third of U.S. But emissions from agriculture will likely hold steady.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 10, 2024

greenhouse gas emissions, but transportation emissions are still on the rise Collapsing coal use drove a reduction in overall U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 24, 2023

National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization is a first-of-its-kind strategy for federal leadershipand partnerships to decarbonize the entire U.S. transportation sector. Download the document.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This group of nearly all the world’s nations says that it: [R]ecognizes the need for deep, rapid and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in line with 1.5 °C Transportation. Also significant is the attention to the transportation sector. Non-CO2 greenhouse gases.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 29, 2021

The transportation sector is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, and a lot of attention has been devoted to electric passenger vehicles and their potential to help reduce those emissions. Read the full story from the University of Michigan.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look. CARB’s use of the LCFS as a cash cow to fund manure digesters is bad transportation fuel policy and bad agricultural policy. Accounting gimmicks disguise a poorly run offset scheme as a magic carbon negative climate solution.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2023

Specifically, the report concluded that the agency “has not done enough to measure the [greenhouse gas] emissions reductions its individual transportation programs achieve.”

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Science & Climate

APRIL 22, 2021

Decarbonizing California Transportation by 2045. Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in California. Those policy options, when combined, could lead to a zero-carbon transportation system by 2045, while also improving equity, health and the economy. featured image by Getty.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Plug-in hybrids in theory are an attractive solution to electrify transportation The ability of PHEV to switch between grid electricity and gasoline means that even though PHEVs often only have 20-50 miles of electric range, they can still complete longer trips without stopping to recharge.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 29, 2023

Unless you are a clean transportation wonk or are in a deeply sad place with your social life, you probably don’t know what the heck that alphabet soup means, so let me translate. The California legislature cannot risk losing millions of dollars in clean transportation funding. They must act to extend these fees as soon as possible.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 23, 2023

As concerns about climate change move from mainstream society to businesses large and small, the significance of greenhouse gas emissions and specifically the move to decarbonize economies across the globe is receiving increased attention. businesses operate in leased space.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The answers to these questions are quite nuanced and vary greatly depending on where we live, the mode of transportation that our items travel, and what we purchase. How would that change if I hopped on the electric bus route at the end of my block?

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Photo by, Lester Graham/Michigan Radio The Enbridge Mackinaw Station helps transport the Line 5 oil through Michigan on its way to Sarnia, Ontario. Kearney’s group argues that would ultimately cut the greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. Advocates are worried about the risk of an oil spill in the lakes. markets some other way.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 10, 2022

Rather than offering modern transportation solutions, this government is proposing to build out-of-date mega highways which will destroy forests, farmland, and wetlands, while increasing the province’s carbon emissions. Who: Lana Goldberg, Ontario Climate Program Manager, Phil Pothen, Ontario Environment Program Manager.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Reducing pollution from the transportation sector is one of the most important steps to sustaining a livable climate. The transportation sector is the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in both the United States and New York. Nine other states, including New York, are considering joining the program.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

million in Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants to municipalities and businesses for 99 electric vehicles and more clean fuel transportation projects to improve air quality in their communities. Transportation is one of the biggest sources of air pollution in Pennsylvania.

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