Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Now that California has taken the lead and set a goal for all passenger vehicles sold in the state to be electric by 2035, the next logical step is electrifying medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. This is an integral step towards cleaning our air and reducing climate-warming emissions. The rule would also reduce NOx and PM2.5

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Hydrogen may have lost the race to fuel electric cars but it looks a likely contender to replace fossil fuels in trucks, ships, planes and heavy industry. But otherwise, green hydrogen will usually lose out to electricity where the latter can do the job. They have government backing too, with heavy spending on recharging networks.

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Fossil Fuels Electricity Carbon Dioxide Carbon Emissions 98

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

It would require standardized reporting of GHG emissions (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) by firms doing business in California with total annual revenues more than $1 billion. [19] Scope 2 emissions are those attributable to producing the energy (principally electricity) that the company buys. The vote on it was 24-9.

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Regulations Law 2023 Climate Change 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

leader in cleaning up the light duty fleet quietly released its own proposal in August: the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has proposed to improve fuel economy of passenger cars and trucks steadily from 2027 through 2032 and heavy-duty pickups and vans from 2030 to 2035.

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Electricity Clean Air Act Carbon Dioxide 2027 241

Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

The president’s executive order aims to use the US government’s procurement power to achieve “carbon pollution-free electricity” by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050. The EO establishes the following policies as part of a whole-of-government strategy. By Jennifer Roy and Julie Miles.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

greenhouse gas emissions, more than the electric power sector. The big issue in this case is whether the agency violated a statutory prohibition against “considering” electric vehicles in setting the standard. Q: The federal government raised some threshold argument about standing and other issues.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Even one of the core statutes governing ConocoPhillips’s rights under these existing leases, the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act, directs the Biden administration to constrain the exercise of existing lease rights to limit environmental harm. That blinkering is more a symptom of weak political will than of weak law.

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