How U.S. tax law is driving higher transport emissions
GreenBiz
MARCH 12, 2024
The tax code incentivizes the purchase of private jets and large SUVs, which is at odds with U.S. climate priorities.
Will Congress Prioritize Sustainable, Equitable Transportation for FY 2025?
NRDC onEarth
MAY 1, 2024
Continued investment in priority programs will be crucial to ensuring that the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law meets its climate and equity goals.
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Law firm Akerman launches EV infrastructure-oriented legal team
Charged
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Akerman, a top-100 US law firm with over 700 employees, has launched three new teams under the umbrella of its Energy and Infrastructure Sector Team, focusing on renewable energy and other high-tech infrastructure.
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For Vibrant US Cities, Invest in Multi-modal Transportation
The City Fix
JUNE 22, 2022
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, offers U.S. states and cities the chance to invest in transportation systems that modernize infrastructure, expand access and mobility for all people in a community, improve public. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
What archaic law is hindering our migration to clean energy?
Energy Central
JANUARY 30, 2023
The Jones Acts is a century old law that was designed to protect the maritime industry. The law requires any goods transported between U.S. I didn’t before I came across several articles on its impact to energy supply and offshore wind. The key words in that description are century old.
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‘Urgent action’ needed if Scotland’s transport sector is to meet net zero targets, according to new report
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
Interconnectivity between different modes of transport is critical. A new report suggests immediate action aimed at achieving net zero carbon can still offer a significant economic opportunity for Scotland – and the transport sector is “hugely optimistic” about the country’s prospects of decarbonisation. per cent per year.
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Liz Truss Book Calls for Climate Laws to be Abolished and Boasts of Effort to Cancel UK COP Summit
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 18, 2024
and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. Additional reporting by Sam Bright The post Liz Truss Book Calls for Climate Laws to be Abolished and Boasts of Effort to Cancel UK COP Summit appeared first on DeSmog.
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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law at Two: Promise and Predicament
NRDC onEarth
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
An unprecedented amount of funding is available for clean and equitable transportation. But are states using this money to move the needle on emissions reduction?
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California enacts far-reaching climate disclosure laws
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 18, 2023
On October 7, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping series of climate and environmental laws into effect, cementing the Golden State’s reputation as a leader in climate action. The law covers over 5,300 companies that make over $1 billion annually. Big business in the Golden State has expressed opposition to the law.
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Texas fails to change dealership law—Tesla still can’t sell directly to state residents
Charged
MAY 28, 2021
Texas’s state legislature meets only every other annum, and this year it will end its session without changing its auto dealer franchise laws, as John Voelcker reports in The Drive. Tesla sure would appreciate changing the law, so that this is not required! Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2021. Source: The Drive.
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Blink Charging to Increase EV Charging for Florida Law Enforcement and Public Safety Agencies
Green Living Guy
JULY 29, 2022
The post Blink Charging to Increase EV Charging for Florida Law Enforcement and Public Safety Agencies appeared first on The Green Living Guy. Miami Beach, FL – July 19, 2022 – Blink Charging Co. is a leading owner, operator, and provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging equipment and services.
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Global hydrogen market will require strong climate safeguards
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 11, 2023
These moves will help dictate the state of international cooperation to define whether hydrogen production and transportation guidelines effectively address and mitigate climate and health risks. The top tier of clean hydrogen in the new U.S.
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Proposed California law would require bidirectional charging capability for EVs
Charged
APRIL 21, 2023
SB 233 , which has passed the Senate Energy Committee and will be heard before the Senate Transportation Committee on April 25, would also establish state goals for bidirectional charging, increase funding for bidirectional infrastructure, and promote interoperability testing.
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Webinar for the lighting industry on 11 April
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 8, 2024
There are legal duties regarding the sale of new lighting, and the storage, transport, and reporting of waste lighting, most of which is now classified as hazardous. They will share their advice and experience, giving you the knowledge you need to fully comply with the spirit and letter of the law.
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Reconnecting Communities: Cities Use New Funding to Repair Transportation Injustices
NRDC onEarth
APRIL 26, 2023
A new program in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law helps reconnect communities torn apart by destructive highway and bridge projects.
Watchdog rebukes government for 'consistently failing' to monitor UK environmental laws
Business Green
MARCH 27, 2023
The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) said the government had not been consistently completing legally-required Post-Implementation Reviews (PIRs) of environmental and other related laws, which it warned risked undermining environmental protection efforts and accountability in the UK.
Spain to push for net zero by 2050 as government unveils sweeping new climate law
Business Green
MAY 19, 2020
Ambitious draft climate law would immediately ban new oil, gas and coal projects and end subsidies for fossil fuels. The draft law, which parliament must still approve, follows the Spanish government's declaration of a climate emergency earlier this year. per cent over the next decade.
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Stricter Air Pollution Laws Needed, Says Coroner in Ella Kissi-Debrah Inquest
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 22, 2021
A coroner is calling for national limits on air pollution to be reduced to match World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines and made enforceable by law. Rosamund Kissi-Debrah, Ella’s mother, said she hopes for an amendment to the Environment Bill in order to protect WHO limits by law and hold the government to account.
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Infrastructure Package Makes New Investments in the Electric Transportation Future
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. Specifically, the law: Allocates $7.5 Especially notable in the $1.2 Electric School Bus Program.
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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
MAY 1, 2019
Position: Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney. The Climate Law Institute wages innovative legal and grassroots campaigns to protect people, wildlife and ecosystems from climate change and the dirty and dangerous fossil fuel industry. Location: Sacramento, Oakland, or Los Angeles California. .
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Climate Law Institute
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
MAY 1, 2019
Position: Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney. The Climate Law Institute wages innovative legal and grassroots campaigns to protect people, wildlife and ecosystems from climate change and the dirty and dangerous fossil fuel industry. Location: Sacramento, Oakland, or Los Angeles California. .
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Massachusetts Clean Energy Bill Turbocharges the Adoption of Zero Emission Vehicles and Clean Transportation
Energy and Cleantech Council
AUGUST 11, 2022
This bill includes a number of key advancements for increased adoption of zero emission vehicles and clean transportation throughout the Commonwealth. This law should go a long way in increasing the percentage of ZEVs and helping the Commonwealth achieve its clean transportation goals.
Global briefing: EPA suspends environmental law enforcement in response to pandemic
Business Green
MARCH 27, 2020
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday announced it was suspending its enforcement of environmental laws in response to the crisis, informing companies they would not be pursued for environmental infractions during the outbreak. The government said the policy was temporary, but provided no end date.
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Chancellor urged to use Spending Review to catalyse transition to net zero road transport
Business Green
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
For example, the group suggested the government introduce a 'mobility credit scheme' that would provide people and businesses scrapping polluting vehicles with credit that can be redeemed on the purchase of a zero emission alternative, or on cleaner modes of transport, such as an e-bike or public transport.
Department of Homeland Security orders $4.8 million worth of Beam Global off-grid EV charging systems
Charged
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The latest customer is the US Department of Homeland Security, which has ordered 47 Beam EV ARC systems and 16 ARC Mobility trailers to enable efficient transportation of the products. Source: Beam Global
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Regional US Transportation & Climate Initiative Program Comes to an End
Latham's Clean Energy Law Report
DECEMBER 6, 2021
A multistate cap-and-invest program to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector is dead after several participating states pulled out. See TCI Proposes to Reduce Carbon Emissions From Transportation in the Northeast and TCI Releases Framework for Draft Policy to Reduce GHG Emissions From Transportation.)
Top Human Rights Court Urged to Tackle Corporate Climate Crimes
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 30, 2024
Nikki Reisch, climate and energy director at the Center for International Environmental Law, argued that businesses have legal obligations to stop causing climate-related harms, whether or not governments are fulfilling their own obligations. “It’s Legal experts dominated the three-day hearing, held from April 23 to 25.
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Queensland farming lobby launches legal challenge against Great Artesian Basin carbon capture trial
The Guardian: Energy
MARCH 18, 2024
The Carbon Transport and Storage Corporation (CTSCo), a subsidiary of mining giant Glencore, is awaiting state government approval for a pilot scheme to inject Co2 emitted by a coal-fired power station in southern Queensland into underground water aquifers as part of a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project trial.
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TeraWatt and New Mexico DOT secure $64-million grant to deploy heavy-duty EV charging along I-10 corridor
Charged
JANUARY 26, 2024
TeraWatt Infrastructure , in partnership with the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT), has been selected to receive $63.8 TeraWatt’s grant is one of 47 awarded to projects nationwide in the first $623-million tranche of the CFI program, part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
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Scotland’s climate targets are in danger of becoming meaningless, warns advisory group
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 7, 2022
Since the Scottish Climate Change Act became law in 2009, the Scottish Government has failed to achieve 7 of the 11 legal targets. There are now glaring gaps in the Scottish Government’s climate plan and particular concerns about the achievement of the 2030 goal to cut emissions by 75%: Transport.
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Clean Transportation Business Development Advisor
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Clean Transportation Business Development Advisor | SDG&E | San Diego. Develops relationships with community organizations to help secure community support for clean transportation initiatives and applications. The post Clean Transportation Business Development Advisor appeared first on Women in Cleantech & Sustainability.
'On the cusp of a transport revolution': Green mobility projects secure £90m funding boost
Business Green
MARCH 16, 2020
Government also seeks views on 'biggest shake up of transport laws in a generation' to harness emerging green transport technologies such as electric scooters. Funding these new zones across the country will also help us safely test innovative ways to get around, creating a greener future transport system for us all.".
Comment: The Energy sector will continue to thrive through HPC, even as Moore’s Law comes to an end
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
With the end of Moore’s Law looming ever closer, Owen Thomas, founder of Red Oak Consulting, argues that the energy sector will continue to thrive as HPC invariably moves to the cloud. It is now well recognised that Moore’s Law is nearing its end. McKinsey estimates that global power consumption will triple by 2050.
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Kids’ Climate Case Advances in Hawaii
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 10, 2023
A judge in Hawaii has cleared the way for a youth climate case challenging the state’s fossil fuel-dependent transportation system to proceed to trial. v Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation, denying state’s attempt to prevent case from proceeding to trial! history, and the second one this year, when it goes to trial in September.
Cirba Solutions helps Toyota expand battery recycling network to nationwide program
Charged
JANUARY 2, 2024
Processing will take place at Cirba Solutions’ Lancaster, Ohio facility, which recently received an $82-million DOE grant under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This facility will extract critical minerals from scrap and end-of-life batteries with an up to 95% recovery rate, and supply battery-grade metals back into the supply chain.
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Ensuring equity in Washington’s 100% clean electricity law implementation
Front And Centered
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
Washington passed 100% clean electricity into law earlier this year, and with public input government agencies are currently drafting rules to guide utilities on how to comply with the law by phasing out fossil fuel emissions and integrating equity in their service models. 100% Clean Energy by 2045 is now the law in Washington!
'On the cusp of a transport revolution': Green mobility projects secure £90m funding
Business Green
MARCH 16, 2020
Government also seeks views on 'biggest shake up of transport laws in a generation' to harness emerging green transport technologies such as electric scooters. Funding these new zones across the country will also help us safely test innovative ways to get around, creating a greener future transport system for us all.".
Biden Administration Announces Billions in Nationwide Electric Vehicle Network Investment
Green Living Guy
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
President Biden’s Department of Transportation and Department of Energy announced $5 billion towards a program that aims to build out a network of 500,000 electric vehicle chargers across the nation, an investment out of the recently passed infrastructure law.
Biden Administration Releases New Nationwide Guidelines for EV Charging Stations
Green Living Guy
JUNE 13, 2022
The Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy is proposing nationwide guidelines for (EV) charging stations. Funding for this initiative comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The guidelines aim to provide standardization for EV charging stations across the country.
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BP and Shell ‘Shaped’ UK Carbon Tax Proposals, Private Emails Show
DeSmogBlog
MAY 8, 2024
Policy Exchange has been credited by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for helping to draft laws that have cracked down on climate protests, and has in the past received money from the oil and gas major ExxonMobil. To do that, you should “focus on getting renewables built and heat systems and transportation electrified,” he said.
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U.S. Senate Infrastructure Bill Proposes Big Dollars for Wide Ranging New Grant Program For Electric Vehicle Charging and Alternative Fuel Infrastructure
Energy and Cleantech Council
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
While not yet law, the bill now advances to the House of Representatives for further consideration. Generally, the money will be distributed through a grant program run by the Department of Transportation (“DOT”). On August 10, 2021, the U nited States Senate passed the much anticipated bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Daimler tests new eActros truck-and-trailer combo in the Black Forest
Charged
AUGUST 9, 2022
The combination has been handed over to transport firm Logistik Schmitt in the northern Black Forest for endurance testing. As part this process, it will continue to transport transmission housings and axle components to Daimler Truck plants in Rastatt and Gaggenau.
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All 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico have submitted plans for national EV charging network
Charged
AUGUST 7, 2022
We appreciate the thought and time that states have put into these EV infrastructure plans, which will help create a national charging network where finding a charge is as easy as locating a gas station,” said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
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Illinois passes binding 100% clean energy bill
Renewable Energy World
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Pritzker's desk to be signed into law, which he has indicated he plans to do. Pritzker's desk to be signed into law, which he has indicated he plans to do. The bill is transformative far beyond the renewable energy sector, with policies around utility ethics reform, transportation electrification, and pollution reductions.".
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