Sentences with phrase «fuel standards»

Alternative and renewable fuels could face the same constraints at the ports should the state begin to rely on imports of those fuels to meet state and federal renewable fuel standards.

Once the utilities get on board, and especially if they get low carbon fuel standard credits for participation, the build out will accelerate.

The Clean Fuel Standard targets not only transportation fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, but also those used in buildings and industry, such as natural gas.

This is the most significant improvement in global fuel standards for the shipping industry in 100 years, intended to achieve significant health benefits on a global scale.

An open fuel standard would add just $ 70 to the cost of a new car, the equivalent of filling up a couple of tanks at the pump.

The new fuel standard being developed will lead to more efficient engines that have much power density.

For example, low - carbon fuel standards require a reduction in the average amount of global warming pollution per gallon of fuel.

Policies tied to a sustainable fuel standard that ensures best management practices of land, water, and soil use.

They have at least tried to prevent their low - carbon fuel standards from impacting food supply.

The renewable fuels standard targets 7.5 billion gallons of «renewable» fuels to be blended into gasoline by the end of 2012.

What would happen if a host of these regulations were eliminated and replaced with the flex fuel standard instead?

Governments should make ineligible from low - carbon fuel standards biofuels made from crops or from the dedicated use of land.

The car does call for premium fuel standard, which will definitely add to the expense of keeping it on the road over the course of a full year.

Renewable fuel standards do exist and function in much the same way, although it is important to set these standards carefully.

Other things like fuel standards for vehicles and green buildings also are cost - efficient win - wins that should be promoted, while encouraging research into storage and batteries.

«The big thing [the amendments] brought in was the renewable fuel standard,» he said.

«It really is the single issue holding back the low - carbon fuel standards,» he says.

And this fall, we'll announce the next round of fuel standards for cars that builds on what we've already done.

The Clean Fuel Rebate is funded by the State of California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard Program, which helps combat climate change by encouraging the use of clean fuels, like electricity, in vehicles.

A best practice here can be found within California's Carbon Fuel Standard program and methodology.

If the oil recovered through a BECCS+EOR or DAC+EOR can also get credit for low carbon fuel production (like the Low Carbon Fuel Standard in CA), BECCS and / or DAC installations could begin to get developed, which would provide a number of benefits for the CDR industry.

The Obama administration seems to agree, granting $ 786 million in 2009 for biofuels research and setting up the Biofuels Interagency Working Group to study how best to meet the renewable fuel standard mandated by Congress that will require increasing the amount of renewable fuels, such as ethanol, to 36 billion gallons by 2022.

Too bad he's not reversing the renewable fuel standards as well... I guess he loves sucking him some Iowa corn cob.

The policy originated in California, and now Oregon is introducing a Clean Fuel Standard of its own.

When I arrived in Washington, I reached across the aisle to come up with a plan to raise the mileage standards in our cars for the first time in 30 years — a plan that won support from Democrats and Republicans who had never supported raising fuel standards before.

The Renewable Fuels Standard set a target for the country to produce 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol next year.

The Australian Conservation Foundation hopes the shock of such pricing will jolt a change in support both for public transport and for mandatory fuel standards.

As the Alberta government recognized in the Climate Leadership Discussion Document released back in August, tools such as California's Low - Carbon Fuel Standard mean that emissions - intensive production methods «will be disadvantaged in one of North America's largest transportation markets».

The Dept. of Ecology is holding public hearings on its Clean Fuel Standard on Feb. 19 and 23 (details below).

«Just weeks after President Donald Trump signaled he's ready to roll back tough federal vehicle fuel standards, California on Friday affirmed that it won't budge an inch on its own tough standards,» the Detroit Free Press» Brent Snaveley reported.

In California and B.C., the Clean Fuel Standard provides a long - term, consistent signal to reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels.

Because Canada's westernmost province has had a Clean Fuel Standard since 2010 — and has seen clean fuel use double.

Created at a time of energy dependence and domestic energy scarcity, [the Renewable Fuel Standard] has outlived its usefulness, and could create serious fuel supply disruptions and by some estimates a rise in the cost of gasoline by as much as 30 percent and diesel fuel by as much as 300 percent.

This report advocated for a «spent fuel standard» whereby the plutonium should be converted «to a form from which the plutonium would be as difficult to recover for weapons use as the larger and growing quantity of plutonium in commercial spent fuel.»

Automakers favor the implementation of the stricter fuel standards since gasoline sold in Europe and Japan already meets the lower - sulfur standard, and could design engines for a global standard, rather than calibrating them for regional variations in fuel.

Nigeria, Togo, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, and Ghana adopted low sulfur diesel fuel standards; Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe switched to low sulfur diesel fuels and Nigeria agreed to import low - sulfur diesel fuels (50 ppm) in 2017

Show your support for a Clean Fuel Standard at a public hearing in Seattle or Spokane, and put the oil companies on notice that Washington is ready for a cleaner energy future!

Low carbon fuel standards work by requiring that vehicle fuels become cleaner over time.

After calling America's «addiction to oil» one of the most serious challenges in America today, President Bush renewed calls for a higher mandatory alternative fuel standard and higher fuel efficiency standards for motor vehicles in an effort to conserve 8.5 billion gallons of gas in the next 10 years (click above for the entire speech).

Mazza also points out that while the figures around land - use emissions may have made great headlines, for those in the biofuels community they came as no surprise, and that the new Renewable Fuel Standard includes greenhouse gas criteria, with life cycle studies mandated by law to include both direct and indirect emissions.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, American Energy Alliance President Thomas Pyle released the following statement in response to Hillary Clinton's «plan for a vibrant rural America,» which includes transitioning the Renewable Fuel Standard into a mandate for so - called «advanced» and cellulosic biofuels: «Hillary Clinton's «plan for a vibrant rural America» actually harms rural America.

Of the bills we were tracking, notably the low carbon fuel standard failed to advance, but a handful made it past the cutoff:

The Open Fuel Standard Act of 2008 would require that 50 % of new vehicles by 2012, and 80 % of them by 2015, would be E85, M85 (85 % methanol) or be warranted to run on biodiesel.

From our troops fighting for stability in Iraq, to our auto manufacturers lobbying for lax fuel standards, to the myriad of products we use that are derived from petroleum, this is one commodity that deserves attention.»

The Trump administration's main justification for weakening fuel standards — less - than - expected consumer interest in efficiency due to lower gas prices — is actually the reason why the nation needs more stringent standards in the first place, The Conversation argues.

VANCOUVER — Environment and Climate Change Canada today released its Clean Fuel Standard Regulatory Framework.

«Not only will EPA actions to curb carbon pollution through the Clean Power Plan and new fuel standards combat climate change, they will encourage economic growth, spur innovation in our energy sector, and improve public health for all of our communities.»