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Who should get carbon credits, automakers or utilities?

Governments everywhere are trying to use a carrot and stick approach to get reductions in emissions, particularly when it comes to greenhouse gases. The stick is well-known approach: fail to miss the requirements and you pay a fine. For the carrot, things get a bit more complicated. The most popular approach has been to offer credits to those that exceed emissions reduction targets. Those credits can then be sold to other emitters that are failing to hit targets for any number of reasons. However, the question is who should get the credit ... Read more →

STUDY: Even with electricity from coal, electric vehicles beat gas in CO2 emissions Xavier Navarro

A common attack on electric vehicles is to claim that all Americans switching their cars from gasoline to electric would be counterproductive in the effort to reduce carbon emissions. The reason is ...

Automakers and CARB meet to negotiate CO2 standards? Jeremy Korzeniewski

According to The Aspen Institute, members of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and the Union of Concerned Scientists, along with the California Air Resources Board, have met to ...

Obama to revisit states' rights on carbon emissions Jeremy Korzeniewski

In an announcement that should come as little surprise to anyone paying close attention, Lisa Jackson, President-elect Obama's newly-nominated EPA administrator, has said that she will immediately ...

EU-sponsored report critical of electric vehicles? Jeremy Korzeniewski

The European Union has been working on new legislation with the goal of reducing overall carbon emissions to just 130 g/km by 2015. Many believe that electric vehicles are the best way to achieve ...

Ford ekes out more mileage and lower CO2 from European models 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

Ford, along with every automaker selling cars in Europe, is hard at work reducing the carbon emissions of its most popular people movers. Europeans are taxed based on the CO2 emissions from their car's tailpipes, and anything that scores less than 119g/km is subject to big savings. For this reason, ...

CO2 emissions down by 3.8% so far this year in UK 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, the average new car is producing 3.8-percent fewer carbon emissions so far this year than last. Since 1997, the first year that the SMMT began reporting the figure, the overall CO2 emissions are down an amazing 16.4-percent. It's not just ...

Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne still hating on EU CO2 regulations 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The negotiations regarding proposed European Union CO2 emissions regulations are ongoing, it seems. Even after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicholas Sarkozy agreed to push the starting date from the year 2012 to the year 2015, Fiat's CEO, Sergio Marchionne is still unhappy. ...

Fiat declared lowest CO2 automaker in Europe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Automotive research and analysis firm JATO does an annual assessment of vehicle carbon dioxide emissions in the European Market. For several years, Fiat and Peugeot/Citroen have been going back and forth as the leader. For 2007, JATO's analysis based on sales put Fiat at the top of the heap among ...

China to pass US as top greenhouse gas source this year 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

China will pass the United States as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world earlier than had been initially anticipated. Earlier forecasts predicted that this wouldn't happen until the year 2010, but China's rapid economic growth has had a direct effect on its emissions, as the ...

Automotive innovation: 2006 Tour De Sol 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association organizes an annual competition called Tour De Sol, where inventors, students, and entrepreneurs from across the world demonstrate their innovations towards zero carbon emissions, while creating a quality affordable vehicle. This year’ Tour De Sol ...


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