Just in time for the holidays, we have received a special gift from Congress — the passage of an important health bill, the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2010 (also known as DERA). DERA is designed to reduce emissions from millions of existing, legacy diesel engines in use today by as much as 90 percent. [...]
This post was co-authored by SACE’s Board Chair, John Noel; Anne Blair, SACE’s Diesel and Bioenergy Program Manager; and Jennifer Rennicks, SACE’s Federal Policy Director. Last week I had the opportunity to attend the 16th U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16) in Cancun as a speaker at a SACE-sponsored symposium entitled “Win Win Strategies [...]
Today, SACE is pleased to announce our recent $5 million award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the creation of our new program “Clean Trucks Make Cents” (CTMC). The award, which SACE received through EPA’s SmartWay Clean Finance Program, will be used to guarantee loans for the purchase or lease of pre-2007 tractor-trailer [...]
On Monday, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), Mothers & Others for Clean Air (MOCA) and the University of Georgia (UGA) hosted a workshop and air quality demonstration in Athens, GA. The event was held as part of a $1.7 million stimulus grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to Athens-Clarke County (ACC), University of [...]
This post was co-authored by John Wilson, Laura Wilson and Anne Blair Being so close to the Arctic here in Copenhagen, I have been listening carefully to what people have to say about the melting of the polar ice cap. While scientists still agree that carbon dioxide is the major driver of global warming, nearly [...]
