The EV Boom Is About To Begin. Does The US Have The Power To Charge It?
"States have plans to ban gas-powered cars and the White House wants chargers along highways, but implementation is a challenge".
Source: Guardian, 10/04/2022
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"New York to Ban New Gas-Powered Vehicles, Following California's Lead"
"New York is following in California’s tire treads, making drastic moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The Empire State will entirely ban the purchase of new petroleum-powered cars by 2035."
Source: Earther, 10/03/2022
Exxon’s Houston Carbon Capture Just Got Massive Support from Congress
"Imagine a clean energy future, and you might picture giant turbines twisting in the wind, or electric vehicles zipping quietly down the highway. Fossil fuels become relics, or disappear altogether. ExxonMobil has a different vision. In this story of the future, oil refineries continue to distill crude. Fossil fuel-burning power plants churn away, too."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/26/2022
Biden Goes To Detroit, Pledges Electrification
"President Biden extolled the potential of electric vehicles to boost the economy and reduce America’s contribution to climate change, and sought to ease worries about the reliability of EV technology, during a speech at the Detroit Auto Show on Wednesday."
Source: Washington Post, 09/15/2022
"Biden, Remaking Climate Team, Picks John Podesta to Guide Spending"
"President Biden on Friday appointed John Podesta, a veteran Washington insider who spearheaded the Obama administration’s climate strategy, to oversee the federal investment of $370 billion in clean energy under a landmark new climate law."
Source: NYTimes, 09/06/2022
Remote Mine Could Foretell the Future of America’s Electric Car Industry
"TAMARACK, Minn. — In this isolated town of about 100 people, dozens of employees are at work for Talon Metals, drawing long cylinders of rock from deep in the earth and analyzing their contents. They liken their work to a game of Battleship — each hole drilled allows them to better map out where a massive and long-hidden mineral deposit is lurking below."
Source: NYTimes, 08/30/2022
"California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars"
"The decision, to take effect by 2035, will very likely speed a wider transition to electric vehicles because many other states follow California’s standards."
"California regulators on Thursday will vote to put in place a sweeping plan to restrict and ultimately ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars, state officials said, a move that the state’s governor described as the beginning of the end for the internal combustion engine.
Source: NYTimes, 08/25/2022
Carbon Capture Plays an Outsized Role in IRA's Emissions Reductions
"The federal government released its first official analysis of the Inflation Reduction Act on Thursday, projecting that the new law will help the United States slash emissions roughly 40 percent below 2005 levels over the next eight years. It’s at least the fourth analysis to come to such a conclusion, which many experts say is a good sign those estimates could be more accurate than not."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/22/2022
"Mining Companies Strike Gold With New Climate Law"
"The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday, is chock full of mining industry benefits — including a large tax break to any mining company that can produce amounts of minerals central to energy transition products like electric vehicles."
Source: E&E News, 08/22/2022
"U.S. States Urge Postal Service To Halt Gas Vehicle Purchases"
"A group of 17 state attorneys general urged the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to halt planned purchases of gasoline-powered delivery vehicles pending a new environmental review, in a statement on Monday that encouraged the purchase of electric vehicles (EVs)."
Source: Reuters, 08/16/2022
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