China’s burgeoning production of electric cars and other green technologies has become a flashpoint in a new U.S.-China trade fight, highlighted by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during her five-day visit to China and seized on by former President Donald Trump in incendiary remarks on the campaign trail. China has sharply ramped up its production of cheap electric vehicles, solar panels, …
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The U.S. has doubled the pace of cutting carbon emissions since President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed in 2022, analysts and scientists said, with more than 80 solar, wind and energy storage projects taking advantage of the law’s mix of direct payments and tax credits. The IRA and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law last year provided $239 billion for …
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The U.S. Interior Department on Tuesday approved the country’s eighth commercial-scale offshore wind project, which will be built off the coast of Massachusetts, bringing online electricity to power more than 900,000 homes. The New England Wind Project approval brings the U.S. one-third of the way to President Joe Biden’s goal of permitting 30 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2030 …
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TheEPA recently finalizedits tailpipe rule, which aims for a fleetwideemissions standardtarget of roughly 57 miles per gallon. The proposal estimates that electric vehicles (EV) would account for 67% of all new light-duty vehicle sales and 46% of new medium-duty vehicle sales by 2032. It is as if the Biden administration has failed to read between the lines or is completely …
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Last year, President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency proposed a 56 percent reduction in new vehicle emissions by 2032. The goal of course was to force automakers, and by extension the American public, to adopt electric cars at a breakneck pace: President Biden wanted 60% of new vehicles produced to be electric by 2030. But then reality set in. Ford, General …
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U.N. agencies have warned that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further. The agencies were referring to “e-waste,” which is defined as discarded devices with a plug or battery, including cellphones, electronic toys, TVs, microwave ovens, e-cigarettes, laptop computers and solar panels. It does not include waste from …
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