“Volkswagen’s pollution-control chicanery has not just been victimless tinkering, killing between five and 20 people in the United States annually in recent years, according to an Associated Press statistical and computer analysis.
“The software that the company admitted using to get around government emissions limits allowed VWs to spew enough …
On October 1, Neil Donahue spoke at Duquense University’s first annual Presidential Conference on the Integrity of Creation: Climate Change on “How Climate Change and Air Quality are Interconnected in the Developing World“. Dr. Donahue’s talk was preceded by the opening plenary given by Richard Alley on “Gold …
Ph.D. student Fan Tong and EPP faculty members Dr. Paulina Jaramillo and Dr. Inês L. Azevedo from Carnegie Mellon University recently evaluated the greenhouse gas emissions of using natural gas to power light-duty vehicles (passenger vehicles and SUVs).The analysis indicates that among all natural gas-derived fuels only battery electric vehicles …
Date: 10/12/2015
Time: 12 Noon
Location: Wean Hall 3701 Conference Room
Speaker: Evelina Trutnevyte
Topic: Does cost optimization approximate the real-world energy transition?
Abstract:
Modeling for energy policy analysis is often grounded in an assumption that economic rationale is the key driver of the future energy transition. For example, widely-used …
Date: 10/5/2015
Time: 12 Noon
Location: Wean Hall 3701 Conference Room
Speaker: Nick Muller
Topic: Implications of external costs for measures of output, growth, and policy analysis
Seminar Abstract:
Modern economic activity generates pollution. Most forms of pollution are not priced by markets because the impacts of such residuals are …
“A new study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers finds that in some regions of the United States electric vehicles have the smallest carbon footprint, but in other regions, hybrids do.
Carnegie Mellon Professor of Engineering and Public Policy and Mechanical EngineeringJeremy Michalek, Associate Professor of Engineering and Public …
Ph.D. student Fan Tong and EPP faculty members Dr. Paulina Jaramillo and Dr. Inês L. Azevedo from Carnegie Mellon University recently evaluated the greenhouse gas emissions of using natural gas to power medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (such as transit buses, pick-up trucks, package delivery trucks, box trucks refuse trucks, and …
The Carnegie Mellon study considers two ways to recoup the funds EV drivers aren’t paying in gas taxes: a usage tax of two cents per mile, and an annual registration fee of 0.6 percent of the car’s MSRP. Neither is likely to happen. The government is encouraging people to buy …
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering have found that an increased adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) would result in reduced consumption of gasoline and consequently a decrease in gasoline tax revenue that currently supports infrastructure development and maintenance in the U.S. The scientists say the loss of tax …
Ines Azevedo and Daniel Posen of CEDM have recently published a blog post on The Energy Collective. In their short essay, they discuss the potential benefits of expanding the scope of the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2). To read the essay, click here.…
