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3 April 2007 posted in Government/Legal 6 views
Supreme court says EPA can regulate greenhouse gases Admittedly, we're a little late to the party on this one, but thankfully, our greener sibling site was on top of things when the Supreme Court made an important ruling yesterday regarding the Environm ...
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3 April 2007 posted in Green 7 views
AutoblogGreen for 04.03.07 The Automotive X-Prize foundation released the first draft rules for the upcoming green car X-Prize (the Ansari X-Prize brought us Spaceship One back in 2004) for public comment. There will be two veh ...
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18 December 2006 posted in Government/Legal 5 views
Automakers reply to California lawsuit Remember that lawsuit filed by California State Attorney General Bill Lockyer back in September? The one accusing the automakers of harming the environment and people's health by building cars that po ...
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18 December 2006 posted in Green 3 views
AutoblogGreen for 12.18.06 With two more bloggers writing for AutoblogGreen, we can cover a lot more ground now. This week was our first with five writers, and I'm proud of our increased coverage. For Autoblog readers, this ext ...
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12 December 2006 posted in Green 3 views
Turn off your AC: Nation's power grid can handle 180 million EVs Although there is a lot of debate about what type of green technology will be the best for our environment and our economy into the future, plug-in hybrids appear to be growing in popularity. One of t ...
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11 December 2006 posted in Green 4 views
AutoblogGreen for 12.11.06 The big news on AutoblogGreen since Friday has been our coverage of the Alt Car Expo in Santa Monica. You can read all about the show in my post that went up a little while ago. In the rest of the gre ...
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20 November 2006 posted in Green 6 views
AutoblogGreen for 11.20.06 With such a long list of AutoblogGreen posts since Friday, it's a little unfair to select just one as the picture to accompany this post, but our test drive of the hydrogen-powered Honda FCX is worth ...
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13 November 2006 posted in Green 3 views
AutoblogGreen for 11.13.06 Seems you can never milk a famous dead celebrity enough. In a recent New York Times article on the opening of a biodiesel plant in Aberdeen, Washington (Kurt Cobain's home town). The writer spends a l ...
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25 September 2006 posted in Podcasts 6 views
Autoblog Podcast #42 The Autoblog Podcast, Episode #42 is now available for your listening pleasure. Ford once again came up as a topic, this week for the new Mondeo that dominated the posts last week. Seriously Ford, we ...
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20 September 2006 posted in Government/Legal 2 views
California sues 6 carmakers over greenhouse gases Long at the front of environmental efforts, and often ridiculed because of it, California filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against six major automakers today. The allegation is that these automakers hav ...
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17 July 2006 posted in Green 7 views
Ford first to begin production of hydrogen internal combustion engine Today Ford began production of a dedicated hydrogen internal combustion engine at its Engine Manufacturing Development Operations in Dearborn Heights, MI, which makes it the first automaker to do so. ...
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31 January 2006 posted in Trends 9 views
New study finds ethanol to be slightly energy-positive There's some good news for supporters of ethanol - a new study from the University of California-Berkeley has found that the process of making the alcohol from corn results in a net energy savings, al ...
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20 September 2005 posted in Trends 8 views
Companies announce CO2 air conditioning systems With European Union legislation banning the use of R134, it's time once again to look for another refrigerant. This time around, C02 looks to be the fluid of choice, with Behr and Visteon preparing to ...
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