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The newest California Vehicle Emission Standard, adopted in Spring of 2023.
What is the Advanced Clean Fleets Standard
The type of charger often seen at Tesla stations.
What is a DC Fast Charger or Level 3 charger
The current name of the transportation authorization act
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) or Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)
The number of years Zak has worked at NRDC
What is 5 years (and 8 months)
The year NRDC was founded
1970
The Article / Section in the Clean Air Act that gives California the authority to set it's own vehicle emissions standards
What is Section 177
The tax credit NRDC successfully advocated to expand eligibility for through Treasury guidelines.
What is the 30C tax credit
The two "most flexible" federal formula funding buckets.
Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) and Surface Transportation Block Grant (STBG) Program
The institution Zak got his Masters in Technology and Policy from
What is MIT
The year NRDC helped pass the Clean Water Act
1972
The number of states that have adopted the California Advanced Clean Cars II standard
What is 13 states and the District of Columbia
The common recreational location that has a comparative peak load to a 5MW highway charging plaza
What is an outdoor stadium
The application of strategies and policies to increase the efficiency of transportation systems,
Transportation Demand Management
The organization Zak worked for before coming to NRDC (and before being an independent consultant).
What is the TransitCenter
The case that NRDC grew out of in 1970, revolving around Con Eds plan to build the worlds largest hydro electric facility.
Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v Federal Power Commission, or the Storm King Case
The name of the agency responsible for the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards, and the crisis that they were enacted in response to.
What are NHTSA and the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973-1974.
The system that transforms voltage levels from high transmission voltages to lower distribution voltages and takes several years to build
What is a substation
The court that struck down the voluntary federal GHG performance measure
What is the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
What is the FHWA
The global agreement NRDC helped advocate for 46 countries to sign that helped heal the ozone layer
Montreal Protocol
The type of heavy-duty vehicle engine that uses a spark plug rather than high compression to ignite fuel injected into the cylinder.
What is an otto cycle engine.
The four types of EV connectors (both DC and Level 2).
What are J1772 (Type 1), NACS, CCS, CHAdeMO
The state ranked highest by the League of American Bicyclists as the most "Bicycle Friendly State"
What is Massachusetts
The account name linked in Zaks twitter bio. The account is about ice cream
@churningman
The best office at NRDC
Chicago