Alternative-fuel-vehicle policy interactions increase U.S. greenhouse gas emissions

Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards

Automobile Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards

In March 2017, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt reopened an evaluation of the automotive fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards that the EPA had finalized in January. This case provides a history of the rules, along with assessments of their costs and benefits. It addresses numerous debates, including the environmental benefits of the rules, the role of electric vehicles, whether the...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Fossil Fuel Fired Power Generation Systems

Political influences on greenhouse gas emissions from US states.

Starting at least in the 1970s, empirical work suggested that demographic (population) and economic (affluence) forces are the key drivers of anthropogenic stress on the environment. We evaluate the extent to which politics attenuates the effects of economic and demographic factors on environmental outcomes by examining variation in CO2 emissions across US states and within states over time. We...

Well-to-Wheels Results of Energy Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Criteria Air Pollutant Emissions of Selected Vehicle/Fuel Systems

A fuel-cycle model—called the Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation (GREET) model—has been developed at Argonne National Laboratory to evaluate well-to-wheels (WTW) energy and emission impacts of motor vehicle technologies fueled with various transportation fuels. The new GREET version has up-to-date information regarding energy use and emissions for fuel produ...