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Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 18, 2024
Availability has also increased , with many auto dealers offering a wide range of new and more affordable electric passenger car and pick-up truck models. Disinformation and misconceptions about electric vehicles are a major reason for this lag. some essential facts about electric vehicles in rural areas.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
More efficient (and cleaner) gasoline cars are part of the reason why gasoline use is down, but the increasing number of electric vehicles being sold in the state will likely drive gasoline use down even further. Gasoline consumption is down by more than two billion gallons per year since 2017, when 15.6
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Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Gas, which now generates 40 percent of US electricity, is considered by some to be critical to maintain grid reliability. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, a 2017 PSE Healthy Energy study found that nearly half of California’s gas power plants are in communities that are among the state’s 25 percent most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Enviromental Defense
MAY 29, 2024
The Portlands gas plant was built in 2008 and was designed as a peaker gas plant, meaning that it would only operate a few hours per month when electricity demand was high. The IESO should switch to renewable sources of electricity and plan to phase out the Portlands gas plant as soon as possible.
Clean Energy Law
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
One of the most significant air quality challenges in the Basin is reducing emissions of the ozone precursor nitrogen oxides (NO x ) to meet the ozone standard attainment deadlines. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. Endnotes. [1] 20, 2019). [6]
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 12, 2022
Since its founding in 2017, the US Climate Alliance —a coalition of states committed to meeting the goals of the Paris climate accord—has grown to 24 states and one US territory. Emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from power plants in alliance states drop 88 percent and 77 percent respectively by 2040.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 11, 2024
Fortunately, I don’t have COPD and I didn’t contract asthma when I was young, perhaps partly because I grew up in a home with an electric range. The study concluded that these childhood asthma cases could have theoretically been prevented by using electric appliances. But other Washingtonians may not be as lucky.
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