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This Interactive Chart Shows Changes In The World’s Top 10 GHG Emitters

March 6, 2023 admin climate change, Coal, Fossil Fuels, greenhouse gas emissions, natural gas, Oil, policy research, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: World Resources Institute| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2023 18:15:10 +0000

As countries implement their targets and policies and develop more detailed pathways to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, it’s important to fully understand the global emissions picture and how it changes over time. Our Climate Watch interactive chart explores GHG emissions by country and economic sector1, and shows how top emitters have changed in recent years

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Navigating The Financial Industry’s Blurred Lines Between Climate Commitments & Greenwash

March 5, 2023 admin climate change, green economy, greenwashing, net-zero, policy & politics, policy research, research

Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 17:05:09 +0000

As climate commitments among large financial institutions have rapidly become the new normal, so has the criticism of those targets. A Reclaim Finance report in January that revealed members of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) have continued financing fossil fuel expansion echoes a common refrain from the NGO and activist community: target […]

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New York Times Ad Blasts Automaker Climate Hypocrisy, Urges Action From President Biden

March 4, 2023 admin center for biological diversity, climate change, environmental protection agency (epa), EPA, Joe Biden, policy & politics, policy research, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 02:07:48 +0000

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Center for Biological Diversity and Green Latinos placed a full-page ad in The New York Times today blasting automaker doublespeak on clean vehicles. The ad calls on President Biden to make the manufacturers cut carbon emissions 75% by 2030 and boost electric vehicle (EV) access and production. The ad castigates auto […]

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New Projection: US Pedestrian Deaths Rise Yet Again in First Half of 2022

March 4, 2023 admin pedestrian fatalities, policy research, research, US

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2023 16:35:59 +0000

Dangerous driving, inadequate infrastructure and larger vehicles lead to deadly conditions for people walking, with one death every 75 minutes Drivers in the United States struck and killed 3,434 people in the first half of 2022 — up 5%, or 168 more deaths, from the same period the year before, according to a new analysis […]

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Dear Maryland: It’s Time To Drive Clean Trucks & Buses

February 28, 2023 admin clean transport, electric buses, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, MARYLAND, mass transit / public transit, policy research, research, SCIENCE, Shipping

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 16:40:14 +0000

I love living in Maryland. We’re living in a historical moment, and I can’t help but do a lil’ happy dance around the possibilities of the new administration and the groundwork laid by the Climate Solutions Now Act which set some of the most ambitious climate targets in the country. Amid all this I’m grateful […]

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Pathbreaking Groundwater Research

February 28, 2023 admin Agriculture, aquifers, California, policy research, research, SCIENCE, Water

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:27:13 +0000

By Gwyneth K. Shaw, Courtesy of Berkeley Law. California’s tremendous thirst for water poses a grave challenge to its future, from an everyday perspective and in the longer battle of combating climate change — and is a bellwether for the rest of America and the world. At Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE), […]

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EU Aviation Disaster: Will Von der Leyen Rubber-Stamp Biggest Aviation Greenwashing in Decades?

February 24, 2023 admin Aviation, clean transport, EU, Europe, policy & politics, policy research, research

Credit to Author: Transport & Environment (T&E)| Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:40:01 +0000

The European Commission is about to stick a green investment label on thousands of highly polluting planes. It must reverse course.

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Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces New Standards & Major Progress For A Made-in-America National Network Of EV Chargers

February 18, 2023 admin bipartisan infrastructure law, clean transport, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, policy & politics, policy research, research, US

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:30:55 +0000

Made in America Policies and New Technical Standards Support the Future of the Electric Vehicle Charging Industry Public and Private Actions Accelerate Buildout of National Network and Catalyze Manufacturing Boom

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Attacks On Clean Cars Law Rejected By the Virginia Senate

February 18, 2023 admin cars, clean transport, policy & politics, policy research, research, Virginia

Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:03:55 +0000

RICHMOND, VA — Today the Virginia Senate defeated the last of eight bills aimed at repealing the Clean Cars Virginia program. The program set standards for vehicle manufacturers to deliver cars that emit less carbon pollution and smog-forming pollutants, and requires a gradually-rising number of zero-emission electric vehicles be sent to Virginia. The following is […]