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James Fowler
🚌🌱 Imagine a quieter, cleaner, and healthier environment for our children. That's the promise of electric school buses, and here's how they can positively impact #Connecticut: 📉 Noise Pollution Electric buses are significantly quieter than diesel buses, bringing peace to our neighborhoods and enhancing the learning environment for students. 🌍 Emissions Reduction Switching to electric means zero tailpipe emissions, drastically cutting down pollutants that contribute to smog and respiratory issues. This is a crucial step for Connecticut, given our urgent air quality challenges. 💪 Public Health Benefits Cleaner air means healthier kids! Reduced exposure to harmful pollutants can decrease respiratory problems like asthma, leading to fewer school absences and a healthier future for our children. 💰 Economic Efficiency Though the initial investment is higher, electric buses offer lower total ownership costs thanks to savings on fuel and maintenance. This means more money could potentially be redirected towards enhancing educational resources. 📚 Educational Opportunities This transition isn't just about transportation—it's a live lesson in sustainability and technology. It sets a fantastic example for students and the community, showing that proactive environmental action is within our reach. 🚧 Moving Forward Connecticut is already investing in infrastructure like charging stations and working on multiple fronts to meet these demands. From grid demand data analysis and modernization to solar, wind, and nuclear, and more, it is happening here. The goal? To ensure our shift to emission-free energy also supports broader renewable energy use and a thriving economy. This is Connecticut. We are built to innovate and will continue to lead in high-tech, clean, and efficient solutions to meet our goals and leave our state better for generations to come. #ElectricVehicles #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #PublicHealth #Education #ElectricBus
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Danny Katz
Lots of big wins that I got to be a part of at the legislature this year. My highlights include helping to pass the broadest #repair rights of any state in the country, historic #transit funding, fewer products with #PFAS chemicals, more data #privacy for kids, no #hiddenfees on tickets for shows/games, transformational #waste policy that will extend recycling to everyone and more steps to reduce #ozone pollution. Read all about it here - https://lnkd.in/gbKQ46gV
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Max Stier
I am proud to announce the release of our 2023-2024 impact report, which highlights the results of our work to build a better government and a stronger democracy. The report explores the difference we made for public servants, their agencies, and our good government allies over the past year and our future plans to help the federal government keep pace with the world. The health of our democracy depends on the ability of our government to connect with and deliver for the people it serves, regardless of partisan battles and election outcomes. At a time when our democracy faces several challenges, including low trust in public institutions, political polarization, and increasingly virulent attacks on the nonpartisan civil service, our accomplishments, and plans for the future are critical. Read the full report to learn more about our work. https://lnkd.in/dPCZcTw6
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Rachel Samson
Post #2 on the federal budget 2024 from Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) research staff: Highlights of new spending: o Using federal lands to accelerate new housing: requiring departments and agencies to offer parcels of lands; plan to introduce legislation to facilitate acquisition of public lands for homes; $500M/5yrs for a new Public Lands Acquisition Fund; establishing a Public Lands Acquisition Council to identify parcels of land for housing; starting with Canada Post properties, National Defence lands, and repurposing of PSPC offices. If implemented effectively, this has significant potential to generate affordable housing (that will hopefully align with Affordability Action Council recommendations to build future-ready housing that is energy efficient, resilient to a changing climate, and near public transit). o Canada Disability Benefit: Act to be passed in June 2024 and payments to begin July 2025, with $2400 per year maximum benefit for about 600,000 eligible people. Overall cost is estimated at around $5 billion/ 5yrs. Fingers crossed that this can role out as planned as it is badly needed. o Consultations forthcoming: new tax on residentially zoned vacant land; National Caregiving Strategy; survey on interprovincial trade to identify top barriers; return of funds from fuel charge to Indigenous communities. Things to watch in 2024. o Student loan forgiveness for care and health workers in rural and remote communities: Increased scope of student loan forgiveness to include early childhood educators, and a broader range of health workers. Hopefully effective in helping to address worker shortages. o Research funding: Significant funding for enhancing research and researchers (I suspect academic friends of the IRPP will be very excited about these): - new capstone research funding organization overlaying NSERC, SSHRC and CIHR (federal granting councils) that will support internationally collaborative, multi-disciplinary and mission-driven research. - a new advisory council on science and innovation that will include academic, industry and not-for-profit sectors and develop a national science and innovation strategy to guide priority setting. - higher pay for post-secondary scholarships, with doctoral support rising from $20,000 under SSHRC to $40,000 per year. Post-docs rise from $45,000 for SSHRC to $70,000. Very meaningful increases at a time when cost of living is a major concern. o Passenger rail: $462 million over 5 years for Via Rail network operations and commitment to replace aging fleet and renew Remote Passenger Rail funding. This is in line with recommendations from the Affordability Action Council, and will hopefully help address gaps in access to transportation in many areas of Canada. More to come in subsequent post..
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Erin Weber Kiel
“Governor Gavin Newsom plans to slash funding for batteries and utility customers to help with grid emergencies — but money for fossil fuel generators keeps flowing. Now, as California and the U.S. West face forecasts of a hotter-than-average summer … two of the only state-funded programs that don’t rely on fossil fuels to combat those grid emergencies are under threat.” Why? We know that these programs “could enable $550 million per year in consumer savings in California…and that VPPs are the ‘lowest cost way’ for utilities and regulators to handle load growth and lower rates for everyone.” Meanwhile, “Another $1.3 billion in funding has been promised to companies that own and operate aging fossil-gas-fired ‘peaker’ power plants in Southern California that were slated to be closed in 2020 under environmental regulations. Those plants are a particularly egregious target for state funding, environmental advocates said, given that they burden surrounding communities with harmful air pollution, and have been unprofitable to operate absent state subsidies.” https://lnkd.in/gBi3u7sX
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Jeff Allen
Forth’s Annual Report is out! Electric mobility enjoyed yet another record-breaking year in 2023. EV sales of all kinds - from e-bikes to large electric trucks - grew dramatically, while communities began to see the impact of federal funding from the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Check out our Annual Report and find out how Forth continued to rise to the challenge: ◼ We launched the Affordable Mobility Platform (AMP) to bring affordable EV carsharing to communities who need it most. ◼ We established a groundbreaking workplace EV charging certification program ◼ We also hosted another successful Roadmap Conference and cannot wait for this year’s in Detroit, MI, on Sept 24-26. While 2023 was a banner year, 2024 promises to be even more critical: ◼ Key federal funding programs are just beginning to put money to work “on the ground” in communities to build charging and support key electric mobility programs. It is more important than ever to help communities, especially historically underserved communities, access this funding and use it wisely. ◼ We must rapidly train thousands of transportation and energy professionals, as well as skilled tradespeople, to support the electric mobility transformation nationwide. ◼ We must continue to push back against efforts to sow fear, uncertainty and doubt about the electric mobility transformation. These efforts will continue to grow stronger as our progress advances. ◼ We must push back against efforts to draw electric mobility into partisan political debates as the 2024 elections loom. In short, we must continue our work to build a world where clean and equitable transportation systems move everyone and everything. Read more! https://lnkd.in/g_3nCrfZ #AnnualReport #electric #transportation
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Emma C. Hutchinson
This week's theme: how used EVs are driving the movement to go electric 🚗 ⚡ As reported in CNN, both searches and sales of used EVs are way up in 2024: https://lnkd.in/eGDkHCrc And a New York Times story details how inventory of used EVs is growing and prices are falling. According to Recurrent, more than half of the used EVs on the market are now selling for under $30,000: https://lnkd.in/ecTaF4bj One big reason for these trends is the Inflation Reduction Act's used EV tax credit, which offers up to $4,000 off qualified used clean vehicles for individual taxpayers making less than $75,000, or married taxpayers filing jointly that make under $150,000. Americans can now claim both the new and used EV tax credits at the point of sale--when they purchase their vehicle--and more than 13,000 dealers have already signed up to make that happen. Today, companies and organizations made major new voluntary commitments to spur usage of the used EV tax credit, as covered in Kelley Blue Book: https://lnkd.in/eAU_BKdp As John Podesta, Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy, told Kelley Blue Book, “Because most Americans buy used cars, access to the credit is speeding up overall adoption of electric vehicles.” See the full list of commitments here: https://lnkd.in/e3_tDc9T
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Larry Gasteiger
Not possible to overstate how important this topic is for getting needed and beneficial transmission built over the next several decades. Transmission is the missing link in the energy transition, and incentives and stable and adequate rates of return are critical to getting the investment needed to make it happen.
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Kristin Cooper Carter
PowerForward is California’s equity-first, market-accelerating, ZEV battery manufacturing infrastructure grant program implemented by CALSTART in partnership with New Energy Nexus, Lawrence Berkeley Labs, and Yunev. The California Energy Commission (CEC) has made available to CALSTART $35 million for grant awards for new and existing facilities to expand battery manufacturing in the State of California. PowerForward is designed to attract and retain manufacturing of batteries for zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) in California, create positive economic impacts that benefit local communities and priority populations, foster a California battery supply chain ecosystem, and contribute to California’s goal of zero-emission transportation. There are two possible categories and a total of $35 million in funding available for awards under this solicitation. Both categories have a minimum possible award of $5 million and a maximum possible award of $17.5 million. Projects are eligible for awards up to 50 percent of total project costs. Therefore, a total allowable project cost (i.e., the sum of reimbursable share and Recipient’s match share) of at least $10 million is required to apply. The highest scoring project, that receives a passing score, in each category will be proposed for funding. If funding remains after the highest scoring passing project in each category is awarded, then the next highest scoring passing project, regardless of category, will be proposed for funding. Additional passing projects, regardless of category, in order of highest scoring proposal will be considered for award until funding is exhausted. Deadline to Submit Applications by 5:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) 7/1/24
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Rose Grech
Interesting dilemma, never thought much about where road funding came from. "Federal and state fuel taxes are the main source of highway and road funding, and the Congressional Budget Office projects that balances in both the highway and transit accounts of the federal Highway Trust Fund will be exhausted by 2028. The decline of fuel-tax revenues resulting from EVs never needing to visit a gas pump will further diminish state and local governments’ ability to maintain our deteriorating network of roads, highways and bridges. At the same time, governments will be faced with increased expenditures due to aging road infrastructure that is threatened by extreme weather events." https://lnkd.in/gQEBJ_Gm
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Nena do Nascimento
So glad to see this evaluation out in the world! Faced with a global pandemic, state and local government, local organizations and private business came together at record speed to stand up the Project Roomkey program. The model used hotel rooms to house people experiencing homelessness - to reduce their risk exposure, as well as the larger burden on the health system in this crisis. The Project Roomkey model expanded our imaginations for how California can provide emergency housing for people experiencing homelessness - and there are important reflections on what this means for homelessness services in non-emergency settings as well. #covid19 #pandemic #pandemicpreparedness #homelessness #housing
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Matt Schrap
Catchy Headline For Surrrrre... Check out the #report link in the Press Release for the credit summary breakdown... I'm no #mathwiz...but to me it looks like 97% of these "trucks buses and vans sold" are mostly #cargovans and other #MHD vehicles with 88.7% coming from two #OEMs... Ford Motor Company and Rivian… While I can appreciate the State of California #PR Spin Machine working overtime and leading with "trucks".... fact of the matter is that if the #ZEVTOPIA envisioned by so many is ever gonna be achieved across the #Class8 segment especially, we need more #incentive opportunities for fleets of all sizes, not less. Restricting access by fleet size in #HDZE #funding programs, a concept championed by the California Air Resources Board is counterintuitive. Every Class 8 Tractor deployment in #California was partially funded by incentives. Every. Single. One. And many of these trucks/tractors were deployed by larger fleets with more than 50 trucks... ICYMI, the #secondarymarket relies on lager fleets to run vehicles and populate the used truck marketplace (especially with "new" technology) for small to midsize to husky size fleets to access once the trucks are reconditioned and refurbished...at a much lower price point. #HDZE needs a secondary market for it to work...it doesn't need restrictive rules driven by #politics instead of #reality...(oh yeah and we need a whole lotta #infrastructure...lol) This is not #RocketSurgery. #KeepFundingStuff #BrokenRecord
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Julia Eagles
🌍🏙️ NEW RESOURCE: How can cities generate sustainable funding for equitable climate action? 💡📄 In this new publication and fact sheet developed in partnership with members of the Just Transition Fund Coalition, we examine innovative mechanisms available to the City of Minneapolis to combat climate change and address historical inequities: 🏭 Pollution Control Annual Registration (PCAR) 🔌 Utility Franchise Fees By applying a social cost of carbon, these mechanisms could generate over $110 million annually for critical climate investments like: ✅ Community-wide weatherization 🏘️🔧 ✅ Upgrading & electrifying heating/cooling 🌡️🔌 ✅ Expanding clean energy access ☀️🔋 ✅ Workforce development & green jobs 👷💼 The paper provides a roadmap for cities to restructure fees to disincentivize emissions while raising funds for a just energy transition. Crucially, it emphasizes community oversight and accountability to ensure investments benefit those most impacted by climate change. Low-wealth households and businesses are shielded through exemptions and targeted support. While focused on Minneapolis, it offers a replicable framework for cities nationwide to create bold funding solutions at the scale urgently needed to address the climate emergency. 🌎🚨 I'm so proud to have worked on this project on behalf of the Just Transition Coalition alongside my colleague Cherylyn Kelley, with legal research support ⚖ from Daniel Carpenter-Gold and Joey Vossen at the Public Health Law Center and patient and thoughtful guidance from Alice Madden. Thanks to Matt Grimley for crunching the numbers and creating the charts 📊 and to Tori Hong for creating the incredible illustrations to help tell this story. 🎨 Special shout-out to the amazing IMT Comms team - CM Caplinger and Rita Perez - for their beautiful design work that brings the paper to life! ✨ Feast your eyes on the fact sheet & full paper for recommendations on equitable collection, disbursement, and oversight of climate funds ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gvEiwqRk #ClimateSolutions #JustTransition #SustainableCities #CommunityResilience
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Kristin Cooper Carter
DOE Announces a Notice of Intent for the SuperTruck Charge Funding Opportunity The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a notice of intent to fund projects that would provide innovative research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) of concepts for delivering charging solutions for trucks. The opportunity also supports approaches for load management and delivery of grid services that alleviate grid capacity challenges at charging installations for medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles. The SuperTruck Charge program will focus on demonstrating technologies to accelerate the widespread buildout of the charging infrastructure necessary for battery electric medium- and heavy-duty trucks. Area of Interest: Grid-integration of Depot/Hub and Corridor Charging Solutions for Medium- and Heavy-Duty EVs This area of interest will seek innovative RD&D concepts for medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles through optimal design of charging infrastructure and operations. VTO anticipates sub-topics focusing on: Truck depots concentrated near ports, warehouses, and other logistics operations, and Truck stops/travel centers along key freight corridors. Contact us for more info
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Vicky Snyder
Bi-directional charging capabilities will significantly (up to $8k/ yr) reduce the cost of EV ownership. The question is no longer if this will ever be possible, but when. A DAY 2 panel discussion at Electric Autonomy's #EVChargingExpo2024 made this clear. Sufficient pilot projects have been run across North America documenting the benefits for EV owners and for the grid associated with bi-directional charging. When can Canada expect to see this opportunity being more fully realized? Two years? Ten years? What are all the actions that need to happen to make this a reality?
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