UC Berkeley EV Research Reports By 2035 USA Drivers Must All Plug-In To Save Society And Our Economy And Bring Clean Air and Transportation Equity To Underserved Inner City Citizens
Research finds all new car and truck sales can be electric by 2035, saving households trillions.
New national report is first to use latest battery and infrastructure costs, shows with the right policy the U.S. can electrify on-road transportation, which would save households $1,000 every year over the next 30 years, support over 2 million jobs, and aid recovery efforts.
BERKELEY, CA All new cars and trucks sold in the United States can be powered by electricity by 2035, according to a study released today from the University of California, Berkeley. The study also finds that without robust policy reforms, most of the potential to reduce emissions, cut transportation costs, and increase jobs will not be realized.
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February 26, 2021
A record-setting winter storm left many Texas households without power for days last week and left those who did manage to get power stuck dividing a $50 billion electric bill, the product of a wild upward swing in wholesale power prices.
This is the gamble at the heart of a deregulated electricity market, in which companies compete to produce and sell electricity, as opposed to a monopoly system with rates fixed by regulators. In this kind of system, which covers about 60% of the US, consumers accept some price volatility in exchange for, in theory, lower rates and better service most of the time. Some types of retail contracts offer more insulation from wholesale price swings than others. But ultimately, all customers have to trust that the companies and officials running the grid will invest and plan in a way that will produce the greatest reliability at lowest cost.
Joe Biden is about to floor it to a green future - can he meet his goal?
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
Posted Dec 24, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden announces his climate and energy team nominees and appointees at The Queen Theater in Wilmington Del., Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP
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By Vince Bielski | RealClearInvestigations
Joe Biden needs to put the pedal to the metal as he races toward his goal of ridding America’s energy sources of carbon emissions by 2035. But the president-elect’s headlong rush toward a green future may be slowed by a snarl of political speed limits in the states.
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Dillon Delvo never set out to become an environmental justice crusader. But as a native resident of Stockton, Calif., the second-generation Filipino American has long been forced to breathe some of the nation’s worst pollution. Crisscrossed by five freeways and home to a bustling seaport and the associated network of trucks, cars, railways, and ships, Stockton is burdened by California’s highest asthma rate. It is also the nation’s most racially diverse city, with ample Black, Hispanic, Asian American, and white populations included among its 313,000 residents.