Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A seemingly ground-breaking project to create a circular end-of-life supply chain for the electric vehicle industry is being led by EMR Metals Recycling. Under current EU law and also post Brexit, manufacturers retain responsibility for the safe disposal of electric car batteries.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 8, 2022

The United States is ramping up electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in Tennessee. With funds from Biden’s infrastructure law, the Australian company, Tritium is planning to build 30,000 EV charging stations per year. The company is also building a manufacturing facility in Lebanon, Tennessee.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 2, 2022

Electric vehicles (EVs) aren’t the future — they’re already here. Six major carmakers — BYD, Ford, General Motors, Jaguar Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo — have pledged to phase out gas- and diesel-powered vehicles by 2035, and several states have passed laws banning the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles by 2030.

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Charged

JULY 14, 2022

Under the new National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program established by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, funding will be directed to designated EV Alternative Fuel Corridors to serve as the backbone for the national EV charging network.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

The bill has prompted Conservative MP and former environment minister Chris Skidmore to resign and has been criticised by the government’s climate advisors, the Climate Change Committee, which called the plans for new drilling licences “inconsistent with climate goals”.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Customers wait to head to fueling stations until the tank is almost empty, when fuel prices are low, or when the vehicle’s fuel level is not enough for a longer trip. The development of infrastructure supported by various state-specific laws, incentives, and recognition of climate change is at the forefront of the industry.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. But seven years on, researchers, regulators and activists are still arguing about how California’s most famous climate policy has affected its most vulnerable residents — and how to do better.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JUNE 1, 2019

At the same time that he signed a host of clean energy bills into law, Gov. Jared Polis unveiled his bold plan for the state to get 100% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2040. Under the new policies passed and signed into law by Gov. This suite of bills and Gov.

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Charged

JUNE 8, 2022

Corporate watchdog SumOfUs recently delivered a petition to Toyota signed by more than 110,000 members, including 10,000 Toyota drivers, demanding that the carmaker stop “lobbying to prevent electric vehicle mandates and clean air laws.”.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 15, 2021

Efficiency Maine last week announced seven awards to place new high-speed electric vehicle (EV) chargers at strategic locations on Interstate 95 to serve communities in central and eastern Maine. All Level 2 chargers have a universal “J” plug and connect to all electric vehicle models.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, said the editors of The Telegraph had “lost their minds when it comes to climate change”. Both newspapers [The Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] are campaigning against climate policies,” Ward told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Officially known as the Electric Vehicle Availability Standard , the new regulations give automakers until 2035 to adjust production so they only produce electrically powered vehicles, or otherwise face large fines. Canadian EVs would include both battery and plug-in vehicles, as well as hydrogen-powered ones.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law today not only makes critical investments in our core infrastructure, it creates several new programs to support the increasing electrification of the transportation sector. These investments include: Creating new grants to build out electric vehicle charging station networks.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2023

Speaking at the Scottish Competition Forum in Edinburgh last night, the CMA's chief executive Sarah Cardell said that the agency had increasingly heard from businesses that they are worried that competition laws may prevent them from working together to deliver environmental initiatives.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The rapid acceleration of electric vehicle adoption in the United States comes with the risk of leaving historically disadvantaged communities behind if charging infrastructure isn’t adequately expanded. Many people of color and people living in rural areas, low-income neighborhoods and.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In southeast Asia, local communities and the environment have come under increased threat as governments put forward a narrative that more mining of rare earth minerals is necessary for the energy transition — such as for use in electric vehicle batteries.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 14, 2023

After the welcome decision at the end of 2022 to reintroduce them, which is a huge cause for optimism, developers are now looking to onshore wind as an opportunity to invest in cheap, clean energy safe in the knowledge that planning laws are not working against them. . Read more: 2023 predictions: Electric vehicle trends and challenges.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

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Defend Our Future

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For years, if not decades, the brunt of climate advocacy work has been borne by young people. It has been diligent youth activists pushing relentlessly for climate change to be seen as the existential crisis that it is. Driving Down Climate Pollution. climate pollution by 50-52% by 2030. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

On November 4, 2022, the White House announced a new initiative to support research and development projects on 37 “game-changing” technologies to advance the Biden Administration’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. We will be tracking future funding announcements under this initiative.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Key architect of the 2008 Climate Change Act returns to frontline politics, as Sir Keir Starmer unveils Labour's new front bench team. As such, Miliband was instrumental in passing the 2008 Climate Change Act, which set UK decarbonisation targets into law and established the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).

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AutoGrid

JUNE 5, 2023

In the dynamic and rapidly evolving energy landscape , where both resilience and sustainability increasingly matter, the integration and management of distributed energy resources (DERs) ranging from on-site rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV) to electric vehicles and even swimming pool pumps, have become paramount.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including Denmark's new climate law and the Australian mining sector's net zero pledge. Denmark agrees 'landmark' climate action law. French citizens' climate assembly opposes 28 hour working week. IETA sets out net zero carbon trading vision.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 13, 2022

Funding for this initiative comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy is proposing nationwide guidelines for (EV) charging stations. The guidelines aim to provide standardization for EV charging stations across the country. Not to mention, […].

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Their findings, which were published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change , show that even despite the freak decline in annual emissions last year in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, far greater annual reductions in CO2 emissions are required every year from now on to hit climate goals.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“It’s clear this new government has made the all-important link between climate action and economic action. In particular, the mandate letter to the minister for environment and climate change strategy states that new industrial development must align with B.C.’s s climate goals.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 1, 2023

It is a truly pan-Canadian sector, from the assembler producing electric vehicles in Windsor, to the construction worker building energy-efficient housing in Yellowknife, or the lineworker building power lines that will help electrify our lives. The energy transition represents a huge opportunity for Canadian energy workers.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2022

These sales fall far below the 70 percent of car adverts that promoted lower-carbon electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles. Car companies can hide behind these adverts for plug-in-hybrids and fully electric vehicles, which actually don’t represent the majority of sales,” he says.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

And, in the face of a climate crisis, you can't blame them for asking. It was the first major economy to put net zero in law by 2050 and it has also cut its existing emissions at the fastest rate in the G7 since 1990. The nitty gritty of COP26, though, is about climate diplomacy, which is where the government has a point.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 24, 2020

In particular, the unprecedented move will require an unprecedented leap forward in policies that can make electric vehicles affordable and beneficial for Lyft drivers within the next 10 years. Lyft Director of Sustainability Sam Arons pointed to Lyft's policy work in Colorado during the Political Climate podcast last week.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Renovate buildings and redesign cars to run entirely on electricity, power them with renewable energy from the sun and wind, and bing, bam, boom, you’ve just knocked out a majority of the carbon entering the atmosphere. the gas industry is actively fighting laws that promote electrification with calls to “preserve energy choice.”

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

It also requires a new tariff structure to manage the unusual circumstances involved, such as provisions for how rates may be affected if customers add big new loads like electric vehicles that the on-site system wasn’t designed to handle. The limits to remote microgrids and alternative structures.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2021

Australia's government today confirmed it would challenge a court ruling that concluded the country's Environment Minister had an obligation to the next generation to consider the harm caused by climate change when approving the expansion of a new coal mine. EU mulls plan for 100 per cent EV sales from 2035.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

World Bank seeks to re-align its focus to climate change. The World Bank is eyeing-up a shift in focus to make climate change a more central plank of its work, amid expectations it is preparing to announce new green capital increases and lending tools at its next shareholder meeting in April.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

For a start, when all the sectoral targets are tallied up, they represent – at best – a 43 per cent reduction, according to the government’s own Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC). per cent of total national emissions, despite the sector contributing only around one percent to GDP.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

As oil fracking took over and the fight against climate change took the backseat, so did many renewable energy firms. It’s just like what Tesla did for electric vehicles, batteries, and charging stations, but FHYD is doing the same for the hydrogen commercial market.  Supplying hydrogen in refueling stations.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, in 2019 the state passed a new law named the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act , which raised the 2030 target from 50% of electricity generated by renewables to 70%. A new goal was also introduced that aimed to reach net zero emissions in the electricity sectors by 2040.

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