Final version of an emissions regulation announced by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will affect all on-road passenger vehicles, including cars, light-duty trucks and medium-duty vehicles.
Greenhouse gas cuts from already built gas-fired power plants are being addressed in a separate rulemaking, agency chief Michael Regan said, with some in Congress pushing that it be proposed by year end.
By 2035, California will require all new cars, SUVs and light-duty trucks sold in the state to be zero emission vehicles, following approval Aug. 25 of the Advanced Clean Cars II rule.
UMass Chan Medical School is betting big on geothermal heating and cooling to slash the greenhouse gas emissions from the newest addition to its Worcester campus, a $325 million research and education complex.
Achieving ambitious greenhouse gas emission mitigation goals in the building sector is essential to limiting global warming, but accomplishing this goal requires firms to assess their regional challenges.
Increasing electric vehicle fleets, along with walkable and bikeable streets and access to public transportation in cities, suburbs and rural and low-income communities across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions are among the strategies in a new report calling for a regional clean transportation plan.
Officials in Maryland paved the way last week for what they are calling the nation’s first large-scale offshore wind projects. The Maryland Public Service Commission granted offshore wind renewable energy credits, otherwise known as ORECs, to two proposed wind projects with a combined value of $2.09 billion.