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CA’s Clean Miles Standard Can Benefit Environment, Ridehailing Drivers- If Companies Step Up

Union of Concerned Scientists

On May 20th, CARB will vote on the Clean Miles Standard, a first-of its kind regulation that would require ridehailing companies like Uber and Lyft to electrify their fleets by 2030.

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Congress Considers First-Ever Purchase Incentive for Commercial EVs

Union of Concerned Scientists

Last week, Senators Schumer and Manchin announced a compromise on a reconciliation bill, called the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 , that includes significant climate and air quality progress and a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions nationwide by 40 percent by 2030. A key step towards addressing climate change and air quality.

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Changes to California’s Electric Truck Proposal Could Reap Huge Climate and Air Quality Gains

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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California’s Electric Car Culture

Legal Planet

Since the Pavley Act passed in 2002, California has been a leader in cutting greenhouse gas emissions from new cars. electric vehicles (EVs) are sold in California. The goal was to eliminate conventional pollutants, not greenhouse gases. Brown updates the state’s ZEV goal to 5 million by 2030. Staying on Trajectory.

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New Report: Charging and Financing Electric Trucks

Legal Planet

To address these dual needs, UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE) and the UCLA Law Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment are today releasing the new report Fueling & Financing: Addressing the Urgent Challenges Facing Electric Heavy-Duty Vehicle Deployment.

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Climate Policy: What’s Happening at the State Level?

Legal Planet

Another development with multi-state implications involves electric vehicles. Under the Clean Air Act, California has the unique ability to set its own standards for tailpipe emissions from new vehicles, including greenhouse gases. Other states can then piggyback on California’s efforts. Oregon seems likely to do so soon.

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Fossil Fuels Must Go: Re-inventing US Transportation

Union of Concerned Scientists

Together with other modes of transportation, our vehicles emit the most heat-trapping gases in the US economy: 28 percent, followed closely by the electricity sector. However, these policies fall short of our goals of decarbonizing the economy by 2050, mostly because the incentives expire in the early 2030’s.