This week, the Government of Canada announced final regulations to improve fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from new on-road heavy-duty vehicles and engines. For more information visit here: http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=714D9AAE-1&news=3FC39747-ABF2-470A-A99E-48CA2B881E97
- The Government of Canada continues to align our GHG measures with our continental partner, the United States.
- This week, Minister Kent announced final regulations to improve fuel efficiency and reduce GHG emissions from new on-road heavy-duty vehicles and engines.
- They will establish progressively more stringent standards for 2014 to 2018 model-year heavy-duty vehicles such as full-size pick-ups, semi-trucks, garbage trucks and buses.
- These measures will allow fuel savings of up to $8000 per year, per vehicle, by 2018 for Canadian drivers.
- Furthermore, these measures will reduce GHG emissions from 2018 model year heavy-duty vehicles by up to 23% and will result in GHG reductions of 19.1 megatonnes over the lifetime of the vehicles.
- Canada is halfway towards meeting its commitment to reduce GHG emissions by 17% from 2005 levels by 2020.
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Our Government is committed to reducing Canada’s GHG emissions, and has backed up that commitment by taking a number of measures. For example, we are:
- Implementing regulations to reduce GHGs from coal-fired electricity plants, which will reduce GHGs by 214 megatonnes over the period 2015–2035. We expect that every coal-fired plant in Canada will eventually be closed, with the first plants closing in the next few years.
- Consulting on regulations that will see GHGs from cars and light trucks fall by 50% by 2025.
- Implementing regulations requiring 5% renewable fuel in gasoline.
- Our Government remains focused on four priorities, as outlined by the Prime Minister, that Canadians care most about: their families, the safety of our streets and communities, their pride in being a citizen of this country, and of course, their personal financial security.