Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is necessary to decrease climate-changing emissions. Research shows there are enough explored or prospective reserves to electrify the global transportation sector using current technology if a high amount of battery recycling occurs. The short answer is yes. Recycling has many benefits.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

Nearly all of the alliance members have a renewable electricity standard (RES), which requires utilities in their jurisdiction to increase their use of renewable energy to a particular percentage by a specific year. EN: What were your top findings? Our analysis also demonstrates renewables’ power.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Production of the gift itself and packaging contribute to pollution, however, I wanted to better understand this “last-mile” delivery impact. How would that change if I hopped on the electric bus route at the end of my block? Would the footprint of my choices be greater if I shopped online versus driving to a local store?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

As early as 1966 , the state began to take regulatory action to reduce pollution from passenger cars and trucks. As a result of continuing progress on regulations, the air-polluting emissions of new passenger vehicles currently for sale are thankfully much lower than those of older vehicles. Combining the PM 2.5

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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. Likewise, housing discrimination has forced poorer folks and racial and ethnic minorities to live in areas with polluting infrastructure. First, there’s air pollution.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 29, 2022

The Global Electric Mobility Readiness Index , or GEMRIX, is an attempt to track the transition internationally, and it sorts countries into a variety of categories. As I’ve written about before, Norway began the journey into electric mobility decades before anyone else. At the top comes Norway in a league of its own.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2023

Over the past several years, the USPS worked to plan the replacement of its aging delivery truck fleet with a mix of both electric and combustion vehicles. If electric delivery vehicle deployment is maximized, this transition could have significant positive impacts on both air quality and the larger adoption of commercial electric vehicles.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2024

million to seven applicants for the PA State Clean Diesel Grant Program , which provides financial incentives and support for fleet owners and operators to reduce air pollution from their vehicle fleets. Transportation is one of our biggest areas of impact for improving air quality,” said DEP Interim Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. trillion in avoided climate change-related damages. What are the main solutions?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Beyond the climate harms of fossil fuels, they also impose a terrible toll on human health, as numerous recent studies show—including the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change , a BMJ study on global deaths from air pollution caused by fossil fuels, and a study on US deaths attributable to coal-fired electricity generation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

And we’re still trying to recover from a pandemic that has made even more clear the disproportionate impacts of air pollution on overburdened communities, making them even more vulnerable to the negative impacts of COVID 19. And we’re already seeing the prominent role that renewables are starting to play in our electricity mix.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Replacing petroleum with renewable electricity as the primary source of transportation energy will leave us all much better off. Tailpipes from our cars, trucks and buses are also a major source of toxic local air pollution that disproportionately harms overburdened and underserved communities.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

In March, start-up BasiGo became the first company to launch an electric passenger bus in Kenya. We selected BYD because they are the largest manufacturer of electric buses globally and they are known for battery technology that is state-of-the-art,” BasiGo co-founder and CEO Jit Bhattacharya told China Dialogue.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2022

They are also disproportionate sources of air pollution. We need to make this a national goal, with the ultimate goal of shifting entirely to electric trucks for short-haul shipping. At least with present technology, electric batteries do not seem to be a viable solution for long-haul trucking.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 25, 2024

Two key pieces of Federal support for electric vehicle (EV) charging are coming into place to accelerate EV infrastructure installation for all kinds of vehicles. That is a good thing to help us on our way to phasing out fossil fuels —we shouldn’t be sinking money into infrastructure for those technologies.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

As you can see there are tax credits and subsidies for electric vehicles, renewable energy, nuclear energy, transmission, hydrogen, air pollution reduction, energy infrastructure, climate resilience, rural development, residential buildings, etc. How much global technological innovation will be spurred by these investments?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 1, 2022

And Option 2 allows such dirty diesels in perpetuity—in fact, their share could even grow over time with the sale of electric trucks, an absolutely counter-productive outcome. In contrast to what we and others have been advocating for , EPA did not propose to set sales targets for electric trucks. Image: Freightliner ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Most Minnesotans are familiar with their local electricity utility, since that’s who bills them for electricity they provide.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

With the clean energy transition already under way, the US electricity mix is set to continue changing this year. Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). I’ll start off with the good.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

Thanks largely to the Clean Air Act, new passenger vehicles are 98 to 99 percent cleaner than they were 60 years ago when it comes to most tailpipe pollutants, including hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and fine particulate matter. Even so, cars and trucks are still making us sick—and killing us.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

must provide for the implementation of reasonably available control measures (RACM) and reasonably available control technology (RACT) —which are applicable to nonattainment areas—in their SIPs (e.g., The Supreme Court in Union Electric Company v. Thus, the CAA sets a floor for regulation of air pollution, not a ceiling.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 29, 2023

For California to achieve its climate goals and federal air quality obligations, the state legislature must approve the extension of a modest portion of vehicle registration fees (called “AB 8 Fees”).

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. The US Agency for International Development works with Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturers, such as VinFast, to reduce emissions. million people.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Coming off its recent decision requiring all new passenger cars and trucks be zero-emission by 2035, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is developing a first-of-its-kind regulation to reduce emissions from heavy-duty vehicles like delivery vans, big rigs, box trucks, and buses. Drayage Fleets.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

electricity generation in future years, primarily use natural gas to create electricity. The draft white paper is an important step forward in EPA’s efforts to engage communities and the power sector on strategies to improve clean air and reduce climate pollution in the years ahead. “As

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 2, 2018

A lot of news and noise surround electric cars but another vehicle is also benefitting largely from elecrification: buses. This is why switching 5,000 buses to full electric has the impact of switching 100,000 cars. This is why switching 5,000 buses to full electric has the impact of switching 100,000 cars. But this is changing.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments on a proposed Air Quality Plan Approval for a cryptocurrency power generation facility by Diversified Production, LLC at the Longhorn Pad A shale gas well in Horton Township, Elk County. ( hazardous air pollutants. hazardous air pollutants.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Khan launched England’s first-ever hydrogen fuel cell double-decker buses, marking another major step towards making the capital’s bus fleet zero-emission and cleaning up London’s toxic air. . The only by-product is water from the chemical reaction of hydrogen with oxygen from air, a process that produces electricity to power the bus.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2024

DEP said it has the statutory authority in the 1995 law that created the agency, the state Air Pollution Control Act and other laws to establish grant and funding programs to implement the Plan. 1 Price Changes: Natural Gas (+149% to -64.2%); Electric (+18.8% 1 Price Changes: Natural Gas (+149% to -64.2%); Electric (+18.8%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. However, make no mistake: Technological advancement did not create the production boom by itself. A smaller percentage of homes are heated by other sources, such as electricity or propane.)

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In Ontario, fossil gas is used primarily for generating electricity, for heating buildings (residential and commercial), and for industrial uses (for heating substances and as a raw material). In fact, Ontario is planning to build new gas plants and extend expiring gas plant contracts to produce electricity. It is none of those things.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Since the beginning of 2022, electric vehicle sales in the United States have been downright electrifying. Last year, US drivers bought more than 800,000 new electric vehicles (EVs), 65 percent more than in 2021, even as overall car sales declined. Those 807,956 EVs accounted for 5.8 percent of all new cars sold, an increase from 3.1

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

That rule, which will be finalized later this year, currently proposes a requirement that gas companies regularly monitor pollution from all gas wells until they are successfully plugged. This funding gives gas drilling companies the opportunity to plug wells before they are required to monitor their air pollution.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 4, 2023

While we don’t usually see where our electricity comes from, we are often physically inside the sources of transportation emissions, be they cars, buses, or planes. billion for people and businesses who buy electric vehicles. Many ( 92% ) U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Bad for the budget: from spending hundreds of millions of dollars on peaker plants that will rarely ever be used; to burning gas when renewables are a cheaper way to provide electricity; and the increase of dirty power generation which will scare off future investors / businesses.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It’s also difficult to ensure that the right steps are being taken at the right time – for instance, when there’s a surge in electric vehicles, that there will be enough charging stations and enough renewable energy to keep them going. b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure. (c)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2023

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