Enlarge / Traffic jam forms on Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles. (credit: Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News) The Environmental Protection Agency is on the verge associated with restoring California’s ability to set strict tailpipe emissions limits, according to news reports, while at the same time looking in adopting a version of the state’s […]
Enlarge (credit: Aleksandr Potashev / iStock ) Gas-powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers will soon be a thing of the past in California. Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into legislation a bill that will ban the particular sale of small internal combustion engines predominately used in lawn and garden equipment, starting as soon as 2024. […]
Enlarge / The Biden plan does not include a requirement that all new vehicles be zero-emissions at any point in the future. (credit: Richard Newstead/Getty Images) On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced that by 2030, half of all new cars and light trucks should be zero-emissions vehicles—a mix of battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid EVs, […]
Enlarge / Poor charging infrastructure is a big reason that some Californians decided not to get another electric vehicle. (credit: Cavan Images/Getty Images) By now, we know a lot of ways to get people to buy electric vehicles. In Europe and China, it’s simple: mandate them. Policymakers aren’t nearly that brave here in the US, […]
Enlarge / US President Joe Biden sits in the Oval Office as he signs a series of orders at the White House in Washington, DC, after being sworn in at the US Capitol on January 20, 2021. (credit: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) One of the first official actions taken by President Joe Biden after […]
Expand (charge: Aurich Lawson / / Getty Images) On Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order requiring all new passenger cars and trucks sold in the nation from 2035 function as zero-emissions cars. Furthermore, all of drayage trucks–those which transfer containers around at locations such as the Port of Los Angeles–should go emissions […]