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Fighting Climate Change and Unhealthy Air, California Wants to Electrify Trucks, Too

Union of Concerned Scientists

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 Drayage Fleets.

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How the Tides have Shifted for Virginia Energy Policy in 2020

Vermont Law

Today the energy sector accounts for 30% of the carbon dioxide emissions in. which set a 30% renewable energy goal by 2030 and a 100% carbon-free goal by 2050 for Virginia. is to bring zero-carbon electricity supply to Virginia by 2050. to reduce statewide electric carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030. [1].

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Stronger Fuel Economy Standards Are Needed to Clean Up Combustion Vehicles

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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A new cosmic dawn: peering across the universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

Physics World

With many of these transiting, habitable-zone planets, the JWST will be looking for biomarkers – the absorption signatures of oxygen, water, carbon dioxide, ozone, methane and indeed anything else that could be produced by living creatures or indicate a potentially life-supporting environment.

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Analysis: Is hydrogen the new oil?

A Greener Life

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. But manufacturing it takes a lot of electricity. By Fred Pearce.

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

Law Columbia

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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Did Biden have to approve the Willow oil project?

Legal Planet

That would release some 280 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, according to a federal analysis. energy goals. “If renewables keep growing at their current rate, it projects, renewable energy would account for 38 percent of global electricity by 2027—two years before Willow oil would finally start flowing.