Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

With more electric vehicle choices than ever, EV sales in the US are hitting new heights. In just the first half of 2023, over 670,000 EVs were sold with over 80 percent of those fully-electric battery electric vehicles (BEVs ). Finally, let’s look at driving an electric SUV in Idaho.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

Electric vehicles (EVs) can eliminate tailpipe emissions altogether and so are an attractive option for reducing both global-warming and smog-forming air pollution. While EVs can have no tailpipe emissions, there are emissions from electricity generation.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

According to CARB’s analysis, the amended program would spur development and use of sustainable aviation fuels, more than cover the cost of infrastructure needed to support California’s groundbreaking zero emission truck goals for the next decade, and inject over $100 billion into the electric vehicle market alone.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Resources Links - Revolution Cryogenic Plant: -- Observer-Reporter: Explosion, Fire At Energy Transfer’s Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Plant Burned For Nearly 11 Hours On Christmas Day In Smith Twp., Washington County [PaEN] -- DEP Ongoing Explosion/Fire Investigation: Energy Transfer Reported An Uncontrolled Release Of Ethane For 9.5

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 7, 2023

The latest new car sales numbers are in, and California has hit a new milestone on the path to electrification: 1 in 4 new cars sold in California in the second quarter of 2023 were plug-in electric cars and trucks. Despite the sales, this affordable electric option is being discontinued.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is necessary to decrease climate-changing emissions. The switch from gasoline to electric presents a huge opportunity for efficient resource use. The short answer is yes. But this is a complicated question, so let’s dig in further.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2025

A 100 year journey The journey began in 1925, and it is a hundred years to the day since the first electric train ran in India, a suburban service running into Mumbai. It was in 2014 that the government ramped up ambitions and committed the funds for a fully electric railway. The pace of change doubled and then doubled again.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently developing a regulation to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from trucks, known as the Phase 3 GHG standards, which would in theory result in increased adoption of electric trucks. Adapted from Table A2 in ICCT’s January 2023 study mentioned above.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2022

This bill would establish a federal tax credit for businesses to purchase electric and plug-in hybrid trucks, buses, vans, shuttles, and other heavy-duty vehicles, among many significant investments in decarbonization and air quality. A key step towards addressing climate change and air quality. What’s in the bill?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Switching from gasoline and diesel engines to electric motors is one of the most effective ways to reduce both global warming emissions and air pollution. Put another way, driving the average electric car in California reduces emissions by over 70% compared to the average new gasoline car.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 8, 2025

Electric vehicle (EV) sales are increasing , and these vehicles are important to reduce fossil fuel use and air pollution. Increasing sales means more EVs eventually reaching their end of useful life. When an EV retires, the battery can be recycled and the materials recovered to make new batteries.

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Physics World

MARCH 15, 2022

Air pollution in India is reducing the energy output of some solar panels as much as 52%. That is the conclusion of researchers who have modelled the effects of particulate pollution on solar irradiance in 2001–2018. Solar energy is playing a crucial role in India’s transition to renewable energy. Dual-axis losses.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s immediately clear how fully-electric battery electric vehicles (BEVs) can help reduce emissions; eliminating gasoline and tailpipes in favor of increasingly clean electricity helps limit both climate change and air pollution. Plug-in hybrids are a bit more complicated. BEV or PHEV?

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Close ties between the ruling elite and the coal industry have helped perpetuate South Africa’s dependence on the dirtiest fossil fuel for electricity. But now residents of the nation’s most coal-intensive region are suing to force the government to clean up choking air pollution. Read more on E360 ?.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2024

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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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Its a daily litany of spills, polluted water supplies, smell of natural gas in the air, noise, air pollution, explosions, landslides, truck traffic, radioactive waste, gas flares, erosion problems, dust, lights, road dumping waste, abandoned equipment and wells.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Air pollution from ports comes from many sources: ships, trains, tugboats, cargo equipment, and – quite importantly – the trucks that move cargo containers to and from ports. A Volvo VNR electric truck used for drayage in Southern California. Volvo Trucks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

More efficient (and cleaner) gasoline cars are part of the reason why gasoline use is down, but the increasing number of electric vehicles being sold in the state will likely drive gasoline use down even further. But a growing share of the reductions is likely due to the increasing sales of electric vehicles (EVs).

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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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Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2025

Lets fast forward to today; more than half a century of government housing policy favoring sprawling, car-dependent development has spawned long commutes, increased exposure to air pollution, and segregated communities. And across the United States, the transportation sector is now the largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) contains a tax credit that can be used for electric vehicle charging infrastructure. You might have missed it because its name is a bit wordy and doesn’t contain the words “electric” or “charging.” The credit is called the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit. Why now and why in 2032?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Shell Petrochemical Plant Penalties In May 2023, the Shell Petrochemical Plant served by the pipeline signed a consent order that included over $17 million in penalties to resolve air pollution violations-- over $12.6 1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4% 1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4%

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Yet in 2023, China accounted for about 60% of the world’s new renewables and electric vehicles. accounting for over 10% of China’s electricity. Chinese government support for manufacturing of clean technologies may be partly due to concern about climate change and urban air pollution. Will that change? auto sector.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 3, 2023

According to the California Energy Commission, more than one in five of all new passenger cars and trucks sold in the state at the start of this year was a zero-emission vehicle, which includes plug-in hybrids, battery electric, or fuel cell electric vehicles. More than 16 percent of new cars sold this year are fully electric plug-ins.

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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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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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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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Legal Planet

MAY 18, 2023

One thing to note is that the trigger is whether the facility would cause pollution in a disadvantaged community, not whether it is located there. So any ban on new air pollution sources would apply not in the community but upwind. That traffic would add to local air pollution.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 4, 2023

The City of Los Angeles is going into the new year with a big new building-decarbonization ordinance : starting this year, nearly all new buildings in the city will have to be entirely electric. All-electric as the new normal. And getting buildings to use electric appliances isn’t enough.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

10 Hearing On A State Air Quality Implementation Plan Amendment For Holcim Solutions & Products Plant In Westmoreland County DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Hazardous Sites Agreement With Venango County On Cleaning Up Unlined Landfill Site DEP Awards $18.9 26 to Nov. 12 On Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Reductions; Hydrogen Hubs Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

That means they are going to politicians with their hand out to receive more of your tax dollars with nothing to show for it except receipts from past failures like leaking pipelines, harmful air pollution, and dangerous explosions. It’s focused on increasing the price of natural gas to increase its bottom line.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

A recent Union of Concerned Scientists analysis found that Minnesota could meet its electricity demands with 100-percent renewable energy by 2035, which would provide significant economic and health benefits. million to support electric vehicles , including charging infrastructure and bus electrification.

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