Charged

JULY 26, 2022

The paper, “ Not All Subsidies are Equal: Measuring Preferences for Electric Vehicle Financial Incentives ,” which was published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, argues that, of all the possible forms of incentive, the current federal tax credit is valued the least by car buyers. First of all, you have to have money.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

Looking at it as a technology, there is a ton to like about renewables across the political spectrum. . This hasn’t escaped political conservatives outside the beltway. The point is that the concept of energy independence — be it from other nations or your own government — is an attractive idea across the political spectrum. .

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Charged

JUNE 24, 2021

billion for “a national network of electric vehicle (EV) chargers along highways and in rural and disadvantaged communities,” and $7.5 A preliminary version of the infrastructure proposal included an “annual surcharge on electric vehicles” as one of the financing sources for the new investments.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 11, 2020

Link House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, seen here wishing he’d ordered his go-to option Recently the GOP introduced what they described as a package of climate bills. I think this will be a niche space for now, but it is interesting to see different companies playing around with new approaches to vehicle use and ownership.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

Tesla Closes Its Factories in California and New York : As calls for people to stay home grew increasingly urgent, Tesla announced plans to close two plants making electric vehicles and products for the solar and energy storage markets. This week's podcast episode of Political Climate takes a look. Will other U.S.

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Charged

JUNE 23, 2021

However, given the political situation in the US Senate, it’s becoming apparent that this proposal is unlikely to become law. The latest infrastructure proposal, a $973-billion package that’s backed by 10 Democrats and 11 Republicans, includes a “poison pill” in the form of a new federal tax on EV ownership.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, despite nearly every survey showing that a sizable majority of consumers want to reduce their own plastic waste, the pandemic has necessarily increased the use of single-serve and disposable products and packaging. more use of bicycles or electric vehicles. conserving forests and land. The corporate view.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2020

But Europe's largest economy may be on the cusp of a renewed period of change, thanks to the increasing maturity of renewables and the emergence of the Green Party as a major political force. But even during that rollout, the political will that helped spark it was waning. billion) to invest in its switch to electric vehicles.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

The government is widely expected to unveil a wave of decarbonisation and energy policies on Thursday as part of a package that had been badged as 'Green Day' by Whitehall insiders. It also reported Number 10 is keen to see gas play a critical role in the new package of measures. "It It is not Green Day," one insider told the paper.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

This has moved these issues up the political priority list and bolstered a massive effort to diversify India’s economy away from coal and other polluting technologies and practices. Instead, they tend to be driven by enturepreneurs finding ways to package existing technologies to meet specific market needs.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Areas where significant reductions in the use of plastics can be made include in construction, the packaging sector, electronics, and the automotive sector, the report said. Our research shows that this is technically possible - but it will require public and political will, as well as leadership from industry.".

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

United Nations Secretary-General António Gutteres will today release a six-point plan for world leaders designing Covid-19 stimulus packages, which demands that bold climate action be entrenched into all aspects of recovery. We need to turn the recovery into a real opportunity to do things right for the future.".

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

MPs from across the political spectrum will today take part in over 100 digital meetings with constituents to discuss plans for a green recovery, as part of the world's biggest virtual lobby. It comes on the same day as a major new report from Greenpeace estimated that an ambitious green stimulus package could create 1.8

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

However, the government is understood to be wary of a potential political and media backlash against the plans, which have been characterised in some quarters as an attempt to ban boilers that could cost households upwards of £10,000 in upfront costs in addition to higher energy bills.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Ed Miliband is to unveil sweeping plans for an electric vehicle revolution, as opposition accuses government of delivering a badly 'underpowered' green industrial strategy. The next election may be the best part of four years away, but the green political dividing lines are already being drawn.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2019

“They really want to do a green tax policy package.” Last fall, the Yale Program for Climate Communication released a report that found nearly 80 percent of respondents support offering tax credits for rooftop solar and just over 70 percent support providing incentives to individuals for the purchase of an electric vehicle.

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38 North Solutions

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Analysts say we might (finally) see an energy package pass next year. But energy analysts think Congress just might be able to cobble a package of energy bills together. And even if national environmental policy remains rather stagnant, the electric vehicle industry — and domestic gas production — are poised to have a strong year.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

“There’s no shortage of ideas; there’s no shortage of legislation that’s out there, but it’s all about what is in the realm of the political right now,” said Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who chairs the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Those credits were left out of the $1.37

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JANUARY 15, 2020

In the Pacific Northwest, Oregon lawmakers will once again debate an economy-wide carbon cap-and-invest program that has widespread support but faces political headwinds. Colorado also will consider several new programs to expand electric vehicle adoption, and in Nevada, there’s a push to adopt new clean car standards.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. One in five is Black.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Meanwhile, lawmakers left solar— the industry that most aggressively fought for an extension of its ITC — and electric vehicles out of the deal. Elsewhere in the spending package, lawmakers laid out $38.6 However, offshore wind developers, who typically opt for the Investment Tax Credit, would not get the same boost.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

But the support for decarbonisation came alongside a sweeping package of tax increases and spending cuts, including new taxes on electric vehicles, an extended windfall tax on renewables and nuclear power generators as well as oil and gas firms, and confirmation the Overseas Development Aid budget will not be returned to its 0.7

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2020

It follows the PM's comments in Parliament earlier this month , when he told MPs his commitment to the net zero transition remains "undiminished", and promised to prioritise investment in low carbon infrastructure such as electric vehicle charging and renewable energy capacity post-pandemic.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 29, 2020

The announcement came after political leaders and European Commission officials voiced intentions to adopt clean stimulus measures in line with the EU’s Green Deal climate plan. China has committed to investing over US$383 million (C$526 million) in electric vehicle charging stations. Other countries.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Electric vehicles get turbo-charged. The new plan sets an earlier 2030 target for the phase-out of sales of new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, up from a previous target of 2040. Germany’s stimulus package includes €2.5 The private investment will come if the revenue mechanism is right.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Meanwhile, the mini-budget that triggered Truss' downfall provided only £1bn of additional funding for energy efficiency schemes, despite repeated warnings that energy saving measures represented the most effective means of enhancing energy security and minimising the multi-billion pound cost of the government's energy bill support package.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

As CCC chair Lord Deben politely observed : "Even in these times of extraordinary fossil fuel prices, government has been too slow to embrace cleaner, cheaper alternatives and too keen to support new production of coal, oil and gas. The crucial question is what happens next?

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

In its most comprehensive assessment of the global energy transition to date, the International Renewable Energy Association (IRENA) today set out a compelling case for ensuring post-Covid-19 economic stimulus packages align with long-term climate and sustainable development objectives.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The year the world's largest market announced plans for the largest green stimulus package in history. The year when the market cap of renewables developers and electric vehicle pioneers exceeded that of the legacy fossil fuel firms they could soon replace, a fair few of whom filed for bankruptcy. Nice, but dishonest.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

There were plenty of missteps and missed opportunities along the way, but over the past 12 years the UK took coal from around 40 per cent of the power mix to less than two per cent, built a genuinely world leading offshore wind industry, embraced electric vehicles, and built an ecosystem of cutting-edge clean tech and green finance firms.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

That spend is a stretch in a political system as polarized as the one in Washington, D.C., Biden’s plan includes investments in research and development, reaching 100 percent clean electricity by 2035 and $400 billion for federal procurement of renewables, batteries and electric vehicles, among other policies.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2021

The government could face a major public backlash against its ongoing drive to phase out fossil fuel vehicles if it does not introduce targeted support for lower-income citizens, the Social Market Foundation has warned. Ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs) now represent nearly 11 per cent of the new car market.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 1, 2020

At the same time, California leads the nation in solar rooftops and electric vehicles on the road by a wide margin and ranking fifth in installed wind capacity. A major factor holding lawmakers back is, of course, politics. Overcoming a "third-rail issue" in California politics. Clean energy is the state’s future.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Boris Johnson has unveiled his much-vaunted 10-point green recovery plan, promising a multi-billion pound package of investment across the green economy designed to create an estimated 250,000 new jobs in the carbon capture, electric vehicle, nuclear, hydrogen and renewables sectors.

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2022

Against this sobering backdrop, political leaders are scrambling for policy fixes to try and mimimise the looming economic storm. Separately, the Truss campaign this weekend sought to offer further assurances that it was working on plans for a substantial new support package to help households and businesses cope with soaring energy bills.

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