Tag: climate change

Business

Northeast/Mid-Atlantic states to push cleaner transportation

The regional collaboration brought along Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., to the most recent agreement to set a cap on transport emissions region-wide and work toward reducing them otherwise.

December 28, 2018

Voices

Acquisition, maintenance cost worries stand out in post-2018 efficiency standards conversation

Readers sound off on President Obama’s announcement of plans for post-2018 model truck fuel-efficiency/emissions standards.

February 20, 2014

Overdrive Extra

Trucking with environmentalists

What the President’s new Climate Action Plan has to say about heavy-duty trucks yields odd alignment of environmental / trucking perspective in discussion.

June 28, 2013

Channel 19

North American driver photo contest, carbon tax revolt down under

Carrier services marketing and load-location engine hosts summer driver photo contest, and down under, a trucking association is all-systems-go on opposition to a carbon tax on diesel.

June 20, 2013

Voices

Readers split on climate change

55 percent of Overdrive respondents to a poll on climate change reported believing that the very notion was a hoax.

June 13, 2013

Voices

POLL: What are your views on climate change?

Given abortive but multiple legislative efforts to tax carbon emissions in recent years, the subject of climate change remains ever relevant to the future of the trucking biz — what’s your view?

May 24, 2013

Business

Report says carbon tax could slam trucking

Workers in “energy-intensive industries” such as truck transportation, “would tend to experience comparatively large losses in income under a carbon tax” as demand falls. Potential offsets could mute the effect.

May 23, 2013

Channel 19

Get your Ice Road Truckers DVDs while the roads remain

Yes, it was only a matter of time, I’d say, before a newspaper in the Great White North did a long feature on the potential impact melting sea ice in the Arctic and changing climate patterns due south of it could have on an important part of the Canadian economy — and our own television […]

June 28, 2011

Business

EPA: Emissions part of health risk

The EPA’s decision comes amid contention scientists may have manipulated global warming data.

December 8, 2009