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What You Need to Know about Advanced Clean Fleets: Funding, Flexibility, and FAQs

Union of Concerned Scientists

By 2050, the climate benefits from compliance with ACF will translate to a reduction of 146,000 tons of nitrogen oxides, nearly 7,000 tons of fine particulate matter, and 327 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. The ACF is estimated to significantly reduce pollution from the statewide commercial truck and bus fleet.

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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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Ohioans Stuck Burning Coal, Burning Cash

Union of Concerned Scientists

6 was enacted, the plants have emitted more than 29 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, 28,000 tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx), and 16,000 tons of sulfur dioxide (SOx). The subsidies were codified and extended to 2030 when H.B. billion in subsidies for the two coal plants by 2030, and maybe more.

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Fossil Fuels Must Go: Re-inventing US Transportation

Union of Concerned Scientists

Carbon dioxide and methane (a short-lived but extremely powerful global warming gas) are emitted during the extraction, processing, storage, transportation and combustion of gasoline, diesel and other petroleum fuels used by our vehicles. We have over 284 million gasoline- and diesel-burning cars, trucks and buses on our roads.

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Good News—and Bad—about Fossil Fuel Power Plants in 2023 

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data. degrees Celsius, coal power should be entirely phased out by 2030.

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Fresh, March 21, 2023: Chicago Residents and Activists File Suit Against Toxic Sediment Dumping Grounds

Circle of Blue

million purchase, coordinated with Waucedah Township, is part of the organization’s larger goal of conserving 30 percent of Michigan’s land, water, and biodiversity by 2030. The grant is funded by a $64 million settlement the state received from Volkswagen after the car company was found to be cheating its emissions tests.

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Killing King Coal is the First Step Towards Halving Our Emissions

Edouard Stenger

As I have spent some sleepless nights since the latest IPCC report on how Mankind has to halve its carbon emissions by 2030. Burning coal in these two regions account for a little under two gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, with 1.29 A moral imperative. Are thorium or fusion credible solutions ?