Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2016

and Par Hawaii Refining that resolves alleged Clean Air Act violations and protects public health by reducing air pollution at six refineries. Strict internal leak definitions: 500 ppm for valves and 2000 ppm for pumps. The settlement also addresses various violations of state clean air laws, programs and permits.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2010

Since 1990, nationwide air quality has improved significantly for the six common air pollutants: ground-level ozone; particle pollution; lead; nitrogen dioxide; carbon monoxide; and sulfur dioxide, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report “Our Nation’s Air - Status and Trends through 2008”. since 2000), by 19%.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

Additional diesel PM reductions in 18 major CA railyards with five new locomotive measures. While we are pleased to have already reduced diesel emissions at the rail yards, it’s not enough. While we are pleased to have already reduced diesel emissions at the rail yards, it’s not enough. Source: Staff presentation.

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Diesel California Emissions 2007 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

US EPA Region 9 8-hour ozone trends, 1979-2000. The Clean Air Act (CAA) allows areas such as these (designated and classified as “extreme” nonattainment under the CAA) to rely on the development and implementation of new and improved technologies given the relatively long time between SIP development and attaining clean air.

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Ozone EPA Pollution 2002 236

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

A neglected fast-action strategy presented in the paper is reducing black carbon soot, an aerosol produced largely from the incomplete combustion of diesel fuels and biofuels, and from biomass burning. With indoor air pollution killing 1.6 Black Carbon. Earlier post.). Black carbon is responsible for almost 50% of the 1.9°C Ramanathan.

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Climate Change Climate Pollution Ozone 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Improving the efficiency of road-freight transport is critical to reducing the growth in oil demand, carbon emissions and air pollution over the next decades, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report, The Future of Trucks: Implications for energy and the environment. —“The Future of Trucks”.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2016

For the mobility of the future, we are deliberately not committing ourselves to one solitary form of drive system, but to a coexistence of efficient and clean petrol engines, diesels, plug-in hybrids, battery and hydrogen drive systems. Most powerful passenger-car diesel engine: OM 656.

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Gasoline Mercedes Engine Diesel 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is designating 31 areas across the country as not meeting the agency’s daily standards for fine particle air pollution (PM 2.5), or particulate matter. Affected states and tribes will be required to take steps to reduce the pollution that forms fine particles. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

Selective catalytic reduction is a technically feasible, cost-effective way to achieve the limits on nitrogen oxide (NO x ) emissions from ships mandated by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for 2016, according to a study released by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).

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Standards Mariner Fuel 2016 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2013

Emission rates of BC in the year 2000 by region, indicating major source categories in each region. Total global emissions of black carbon using bottom-up inventory methods are 7500 Gg yr -1 in the year 2000 with an uncertainty range of 2000 to 29000. Source: Bond et al. Click to enlarge. W m -2 (+0.17 W m -2 range).

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Climate Change Climate Carbon CO2 286

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Engine: 2000 bar injection pressure. liter engine increase the maximum injection pressure by 25% to as much as 2000 bar. Up to a reference mass of 2380 kg, the complete vehicle has its emission characteristics tested on a chassis dynamometer, with the result being shown in pollutants per km. mph) the diesel engine kicks in.

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Hybrid Fuel Standards Exhaust 199

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2014

On-road NO x emission levels of Euro 6 diesel cars in Europe are on average about seven times higher than the NO x limit set by the Euro 6 emission standard, according to a new report published in Berlin by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). Diesel vehicles make up about 50% of all new cars in the EU.

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Diesel Emissions West Virginia 2014 344

Electric Auto Association

MAY 3, 2021

That’s how he navigated the 18 years he served in the Oregon House of Representatives , where he marshalled the help of environmental and clean energy organizations to pass a remarkable number of pro-electric vehicle (EV) bills that became state laws and/or regulations. It saves the farmers from buying diesel fuel and breathing diesel fumes.

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Burma Oregon Climate Climate Change 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

Bar chart of 2000 to 2013 GHG emissions by category as defined in the Scoping Plan. Overall trends in the inventory also demonstrate that the carbon intensity of California’s economy, the amount of carbon pollution per million dollars of GDP, is declining. Click to enlarge. per year over the past four years as GDP grew 6.6%

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Plug In India

MARCH 5, 2023

Petrol heads and EV cynics can’t stand the fact that multiple governments all over the world are phasing out Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles and promoting EV’s to achieve oil independence and promote clean air for their citizens. In the early 2000's there was the “Euro 1” emission standard.

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Petrol India Vehicles South Korea 52

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The OPGCI technology is attractive from an ARPA-E point of view as it potentially allows gasoline-fueled engines to operate at diesel-like efficiencies, with the reduced cost benefit of only requiring three-way catalysis and lower pressure (and hence lower cost) fuel injection systems. bar was measured at 2000 rpm, with 17.4

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

But theyve needed definitive proof that PHEVs wont increase pollution. CA, NY, MA and other states have had Zero-Emission Vehicle programs since the early 1990s because battery electric vehicles in those states, taking into account power plants, are far cleaner than gasoline cars in reducing urban air pollution and smog.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Global trends in vehicle-kilometers traveled (VKT) and early deaths from vehicle-related fine particle exposure (2000–2030). A study by a team at the the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) finds that if that lag persists and present trends in vehicle activity continue, early deaths from vehicle-related PM 2.5

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Emissions Global Fuel Vehicles 220

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Posted by: Green Chambers | Apr 14, 2009 12:25:03 AM Battery tech is still not advanced or reliable enough for an affordable pure EV, hydrogen fuel cells like in the FCX Clarity may be the clean future, but there are too many technical and infrastructure hurdles to overcome. Now Im starting to smell a "crock of Shit" from GM.

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