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Feb 23, 2012

GREEN NEWS * Europe

* Belgium - Air quality measurement with Toyota app

Brussels,Belgium -Fleet Europe, by Tim Harrup -15 Feb 2012: -- Toyota has announced the launch of an application for iPhone and Android, enabling users to measure air quality. Wherever the user is, the quantity of particulates suspended in the air can be known using this application, also called ‘Air Quality’. To do this, the application uses recent data from the Interregional Environmental Unit (CELINE). Toyota is a pioneer in petrol/electric hybrids, which emit no particulates, and no emissions at all when in electric only mode in urban driving situations. The company recently delivered its 400,000th hybrid in Europe, at a ceremony in Brussels...

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Jan 23, 2011

GREEN NEWS * USA - Senators Target Cross-border Trash Trucking

Michigan’s Levin, Stabenow applaud end of city waste shipments from Ontario


Lansing,Michigan,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Jan 18, 2011: -- Michigan is trashing one type of cross-border trucking — the hauling of waste from Toronto and other Canadian cities to the Great Lake State... Ontario stopped hauling municipal waste to Michigan Dec. 31, ending a long battle with the state and its U.S. senators, Democrats Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow... Levin and Stabenow negotiated an agreement with Ontario in 2006 that phased out municipal waste shipments to Michigan over four years, ending in 2010... The agreement stops 40,000 trash trucks from hauling 1.5 million tons of city waste a year from the Canadian province to Michigan, according to the senators... The battle now shifts to non-municipal waste from private industry and other sources still trucked from Canada to Michigan landfills, they said... (Photo from bjbear: Truck transportation of waste from Toronto to Michigan)

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Apr 26, 2009

EPA Ruling * USA - Great News For Cleantech

Greentech investors and entrepreneurs are guardedly optimistic that the Environmental Protection Agency's ruling that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health will provide a boost to their industry

Washington,DC,USA -Forbes, by Andy Stone -18 April 2009: -- EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson, signed the agency's 133-page endangerment finding, legally obligating the agency to regulate carbon dioxide and related greenhouse gas emissions... The landmark decision could force the automotive industry and electric utilities, which together account for one-half of such U.S. emissions, to take drastic steps to cut emissions... If the EPA's endangerment finding is upheld following a 60-day public comment period, the agency is likely to begin the process of requiring automakers, utilities and a vast swath of U.S. industry to spend billions of dollars on technologies to slash C02 emissions that many scientists say contribute to global warming...

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May 21, 2008

"GREEN" BILLS * USA - California exhaust bill fought

A bill to allow California and 13 other states to impose a 30-percent reduction in tailpipe emissions won't become law this year...

Washington,DC,USA -The Detroit News, by David Shepardson -May 21, 2008: -- ... predicted the head of the trade group representing Detroit's Big Three automakers, Toyota Motor Corp. and others... Dave McCurdy, president and CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers told reporters that a bill to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's Dec. 19 decision to deny California a waiver under the Clean Air Act has no chance of passing... This bill will not become law period... California wants to require passenger cars to average 43.7 mpg and light trucks 26.6 mpg by 2016, a much tougher standard than what Congress mandated last December, when it passed the first overhaul of the nation's passenger car efficiency requirements since 1975... Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, will bring up her bill, which is co-sponsored by 18 senators including the two Democratic presidential candidates, tomorrow... McCurdy, a former Democratic U.S. House member from Oklahoma, predicted the waiver bill would make it through committee, though he expected several members would raise serious questions about the bill and it would be a close vote... Boxer declined to assess the waiver bill's prospects this year saying she would take things "one step at a time."... She acknowledged President Bush "will not grant this waiver" but the three presidential candidates have said they will "so draw your own conclusions."...

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Apr 7, 2008

"GREEN" NEWS * USA - California Cuts Requirement for Zero-Emission Vehicles

California again reduces electric, fuel-cell vehicle requirements

Washington,DC,USA -The Washington Post -28 Mar 2008: -- Originally targeted 10% of all vehicles sold in 2003 to be zero-emission. New rule requires 7,500 zero-emission vehicles by 2014... About 1.5M new vehicles sold in CA each year. CA wants automakers to sell 60K plug-in hybrids... No automaker has a commercially viable zero-emission vehicle... CA regulators were facing lawsuit from automakers... More important, they just didn't see automakers mass-producing hydrogen cars... Ruling allows automakers to focus on promising technologies... Move has upset environmentalists but gives relief to automakers... 12 other states adopted CA regulations; likely to follow CA's lead... (Photo by Rich Pedroncelli/ AP - A solar powered electric vehicle, with a replica power plug, is seen parked outside the California Environmental Protection Agency, in Sacramento, Calif., where state air regulators met to consider cutting back the state's clean air-program in Thursday, March 27, 2008. The California Air Resources Board met to discuss a proposal that would cut by 90 percent the number of battery-powered and hydrogen cars sold in California and 12 other states in 2014)

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May 21, 2007

"GREEN" NEWS * AUTOMAKERS WORLDWIDE - Jumping on the green vehicle bandwagon

* USA - In a plug-in hybrid charging from the grid overnight could give a 60 mile (100 km) range in all electric mode...

Baltimore,MD,USA -Green Energy News -May 19, 2007: -- Lithium is the premier rechargeable battery technology of the day. However did you know that most lithium battery packs are just boxes containers of flashlight battery-sized cells? Lithium Technology Corporation (LTC) thinks that specially-designed, large format lithium batteries are a better bet than a bunch of little cells for hybrids and all-electric vehicles... In a new product line the company is offering its lithium iron phosphate technology (LiFePO4) in cells ranging from 6 Amp/hours to 35... LTC’ says the new cells can provide 3000 charging cycles which equates to 150,000 miles of service life... To prove the new cells’ capabilities, the company will soon unwrap a Toyota Prius retrofitted with its new batteries. The company says the converted Prius is proof that a plug-in hybrid can get the equivalent of 125 miles per gallon...


* Brazil - Green from assembly line to highway is what new brazilian car maker Obvio! is trying to accomplish
Brazil -Green Energy News (Baltimore,MD,USA) -May 19, 2007: -- A new car or two being readied for world introduction in a year or so. Obvio! plans to power its production line with renewables, will recycle waste and conserve water. Its cars, the 828 and the 012, will be able to run on electricity, or any proportion of ethanol, compressed natural gas or gasoline. As if green production of a green car weren’t enough, the company will be including carbon offsets with each car purchase. The offsets will be in the form of a social carbon fund that will contribute to environmentally sustainable projects designed to offset carbon emissions associated with Obvio! The projects may be in communities near the factory, along distribution and supply routes, or elsewhere... The company plans to begin shipping up to 50,000 of the aluminum and composite cars to the US market in 2008 as well as possibly export 100,000 cars to Japan and Europe... CantorCO2e has been handling the carbon offsets program and other financial work for Obvio!, Lotus has been doing engineering work... (Picture: Obvio's model 012E)


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