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Boxed in by pollution: The urgent need for tougher trucking rules to protect communities around warehouses
Highlights the urgent need for stricter trucking regulations to reduce air pollution near warehouses, which disproportionately affects communities of color, requiring coordinated action from governments, private sector, and utilities.
Making electric cars affordable: How Germany and France are targeting people with lower incomes
An analysis of a variety of tax and purchase incentives designed to make battery electric vehicles more affordable in Germany and France.
Fair fares for the climate
Airlines already have the pricing strategies they need to help fund net-zero targets in an equitable way.
Beyond cities: Efforts to expand equitable access to electric vehicles in China
China’s “NEVs to the Countryside” programs have helped spur EV sales in rural areas and in nearby small cities and towns, and they are a good example for regions outside of China.
Whose BEV is it anyway? New registrations and disparities across Europe
The breakdown of new registrations of battery electric cars reveals much about which groups benefit from incentive programs.
Will EPA’s proposed clean truck emission standards deliver environmental justice in U.S. states?
Adopting the most stringent possible rule can address the disproportionate impacts of emissions from diesel trucks and alleviate health burdens.
Revamping the federal EV tax credit could help average car buyers combat record gasoline prices
The federal EV tax credit is not yet an idea whose time has passed. Just the opposite. It’s a double-edged policy tool that will advance key environmental and economic aims while helping pretty ordinary Americans deal with rising gasoline prices and a rising cost of living. Now is the time to extend it, with prudent changes, as part of the reconciliation package.
Ensuring equitable electric vehicle charging infrastructure deployment in Los Angeles
Los Angeles is implementing policies to ensure no one is left behind in the green mobility future.
The role of the used car market in accelerating equal access to electric vehicles
The new EV market is gaining speed in the EU, but how can policies encourage growth in the used EV sales?
