https://transportational.com/tags/energy-policy/ Recent content in energy policy on Transportational.com Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://transportational.com/shippings-decarbonization-pivots-from-targets-to-trade-offs-in-2026/ Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://transportational.com/shippings-decarbonization-pivots-from-targets-to-trade-offs-in-2026/ Global shipping entered 2026 having missed the clean-fuel sprint the industry once promised itself. The consensus among maritime executives now is that this year is defined less by breakthrough fuels and more by interim compliance — buying optionality rather than committing to a single technology pathway. The regulatory centerpiece stalled, but survived. The IMO’s Net-Zero Framework — a proposed global fuel standard, lifecycle emissions accounting, and an economic mechanism that would start pricing greenhouse gas emissions from ships — emerged from the April–May 2026 Marine Environment Protection Committee meeting (MEPC 84) bruised and delayed rather than formally adopted. https://transportational.com/us-ev-sales-diverge-from-global-boom-as-tax-credits-expire/ Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://transportational.com/us-ev-sales-diverge-from-global-boom-as-tax-credits-expire/ The global EV story and the American EV story have decoupled. The IEA’s Global EV Outlook 2026 shows worldwide electric car sales climbing toward roughly a third of all new vehicle sales this year, while the US is described bluntly as falling behind the global boom. The US-specific shock. Last July’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated penalties for automakers missing fuel efficiency standards, removing a key incentive to sell EVs, and terminated federal tax credits for new and used EV purchases after September 2025.