Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just finalized its Phase 3 greenhouse gas regulation as a part of the administration’s plan to decarbonize the transportation sector. The Phase 3 regulation will cut new greenhouse gas emissions from trucks in 2032 by 32 to 62 percent for vocational trucks (e.g., And if so, where?

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2022

Most of the work relates to greening the city’s buildings — electric heat pump installations, weatherizations and solar panel and battery installations. However, trainees also have the opportunity to learn other in-demand skills, such as electric vehicle charger maintenance and Wi-Fi installation. Roughly a third of U.S.

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Capaccio

APRIL 22, 2024

Keeping this in mind, there is no one-size-fits-all solution for compliance with the new rules. Greenhouse Gas Emissions The rules require large accelerated filers (LAFs) and accelerated filers (AFs) to disclose material Scope 1 (direct) and Scope 2 ( i.e., electricity, steam, heating, or cooling) greenhouse gas emissions.

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Columbia Climate Law

AUGUST 6, 2015

Hillary Clinton’s climate change plan , released last week, centers on two goals: installing 500 million solar panels by 2021, and, relatedly, adding enough electric generation capacity from renewable sources to supply all residential electricity needs. The second component of Clinton’s plan is a “Clean Energy Challenge.”

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Despite a significant uptake of renewable energy, India still relies on coal plants for more than half of its installed electricity supply. As the mainstay of its energy supply – thermal power plants (coal, oil and gas) supply 56% (239 GW) of the country’s total installed electricity – coal remains crucial for Indian energy security.

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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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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Regulation’s proposed criteria for gaseous fossil fuels (which includes both conventional natural gas, and synthetic gas derived from coal gasification) allow investment in their consumption without restriction in function, scale, or time period, as long as greenhouse gas emissions are no higher than 100 gCO2eq/kWh (see §4.29-31

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule has the potential to significantly reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as harmful air pollutants like fine particulates (PM2.5) This new regulation would apply to delivery vans, big rigs, box trucks, and buses.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

The bill is sprawling, covering climate and energy topics as diverse as electric vehicles, building decarbonization, clean energy manufacturing and supply chains, agriculture, and greening the electricity system, all through a range of tax incentives and direct grants. Still, how does a local government tap in?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2024

They will go into effect in model year 2027 and steadily increase in stringency through model year 2032. This is arguably the first time that the availability of plug-in electric vehicles has factored so significantly into the setting of US vehicle standards. Encouraging EVs EPA has set standards before, so what’s different this time?

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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. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I recently wrote a (very wonky) paper about how giving credits to technology deployment in advance of the beginning of the rule in 2027 could pose a serious problem to the long-term effectiveness on the rule at driving the cleanest technology to market, but it’s worth summarizing here. EPA has proposed three different early credit programs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Importantly, however, CO 2 is not the only greenhouse gas directly produced: N 2 O is a greenhouse gas 265 times more potent than CO 2 , directly produced as a combustion byproduct. It’s obviously far better to simply avoid all those losses and use the electricity to power battery-electric trucks.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Advanced Clean Trucks standard modeled in the report would require manufacturers, beginning in 2027, to increase their zero-emission truck sales to between 30-50 percent by 2030 and 40-75 percent by 2035. The report was prepared by ERM and commissioned by NRDC and the Union of Concerned Scientists. These gains include $1.3

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Wolf on April 21, 2021 (Earth Day) they would reject all future nominees to the PUC until he withdraws his executive order joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. The PUC has nothing to do with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Program. “We His new term expires April 1, 2027.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2020

greenhouse gas emissions. is to bring zero-carbon electricity supply to Virginia by 2050. Also, under energy efficiency, utilities must achieve energy savings that increase to 2% a year by 2027. Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. to reduce statewide electric carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030. [1].

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed new emissions and fuel economy standards (respectively) for model year 2027-2032 passenger cars and light trucks (sedans, utility vehicles, pickups, etc.). However, the agency considered a range of alternatives.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

A second bill would require annual reporting of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a covered firm’s operations. Scope 2 emissions are those attributable to producing the energy (principally electricity) that the company buys. Scope 3 emissions are those from its supply chain, both upstream and downstream. [22]

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The case involves EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards that set new air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year 2027 through 2032 Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles, which have been challenged by states and industry groups. EPA as part of our ongoing amicus efforts to support strong federal climate regulations.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Does anyone really imagine that this project’s greenhouse gas emissions would not adversely affect the habitat of polar bears, or other ice-dependent listed species? The wells on these three sites could produce more than 600 million barrels of crude over 30 years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2025

Recyclable EV batteries Between now and 2030, battery electric vehicle retirements will increase rapidly and if we do not have a strong policy in place we could end up with batteries in landfills or being abandoned all together. Senator Josh Becker is authoring SB 540 to allow California to join a regional electricity market.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

greenhouse gas emissions, more than the electric power sector. EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Transportation is now the source of 28% of U.S. I’ll discuss that comparison more in a bit).

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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. Thus, “24/7 carbon pollution-free electricity” requires that energy generation matches consumption, such as through storage capacity or sources other than wind or solar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

emissions, and just under 15 percent of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions from the states on-road vehicles. Battery-electric tractor trucks at a charging depot near the Port of Oakland.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 10, 2025

And the search for gold bars has shockingly been fruitless EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has said that the greenhouse gas reduction program was vulnerable to waste, fraud, and abuse. Maryland is one of the states that aimed to spur the adoption of electric vehicles by adopting California’s clean-car and clean-truck regulations.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2025

Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) 2024 greenhouse gas emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles (the HDV Rule) that went into effect on June 21, 2024. Yesterday, January 21, 2025, the Sabin Center filed an amicus brief on behalf of the National League of Cities (NLC) and the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) in support of the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

In other words, if a regulation mentions electric vehicles, its probably on the target list. The executive order also attacks clean vehicle incentives and federal support for electric vehicle charging stations, important complementary policies helping families around the nation make the switch to cleaner vehicles. Whats at stake?

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

These efforts began with an assault on Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP), which the administration claimed “unnecessarily raised electricity prices, decreased the competitiveness of America’s manufacturers, cost Americans jobs, and undermined the nation’s energy security” through regulatory overreach. Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule.

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