Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2014

After a critical review of the literature on the air impacts of increased natural gas acquisition, processing, and use, a team of US researchers has determined that that actual measurement data on various individual segments of the natural gas life cycle are sparse or critically lacking. well production end-of-life.

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JUNE 18, 2016

This marks Canada’s first regulation of air pollutant emissions from locomotives. Canada and the US are also working together on approaches to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from locomotives under the Canada-US Regulatory Cooperation Council. The United States started regulating CAC emissions from locomotives in 2000.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Issues covered in the briefing include emissions, air pollution, noise and renewable energy and the impact of transport on ecosystems and biodiversity. Evolution of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the EU-28 from 1990 to 2016. Evolution of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the EU-28 from 1990 to 2016. Air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2019

New methods of testing and simulating air quality should be considered in order to help policy makers have a more accurate understanding of how emissions affect air pollution levels, new research suggests. The researchers compared current techniques used to describe atmospheric chemical reactions against more historical techniques.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

The program guides the interested layperson through a selection of parameters: which type of engine should be used, gasoline-burning or diesel, for example, or one powered by natural gas, a fuel cell, or a battery. When, Where and How can battery-electric vehicles help reduce greenhouse gas emissions? (in in review).

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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. Installation of flare gas recovery systems. Implementation of a detailed plan for reducing waste gas to flares. Tesoro will also pay a $10.45 million civil penalty.

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Emissions EPA Pollution Hawaii 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Ozone levels across much of North America and Europe dropped significantly between 2000 and 2014. In some parts of Asia, Africa and South America, the researchers identified data gaps which prevented them from characterizing ozone pollution exposure patterns. Source: University of Leicester. Click to enlarge. TOAR is not just a report.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2009

This potential leap in destructiveness and pollution—mainly from an increase in wildfire frequency—is forecast by computer models calculating impacts of moderate global warming on western US wildfire patterns and atmospheric chemistry. degrees Celsius (3 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2050. Jennifer Logan. Resources. Spracklen, L. Mickley, J.

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APRIL 26, 2013

Volkswagen’s view of powertrain technologies to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. These would range from highly efficient internal combustion engines and natural gas systems all the way to hybrids and electric vehicles. Since 2000, the group has reduced the fuel consumption of its TDI and TSI engines by more than 30%.

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MAY 27, 2014

For the first time since UCS began the Automaker Rankings report in 2000, all eight major automakers reduced their average greenhouse gas (GHG) and smog-forming emissions compared to their fleet averages from 1998, the model year examined in the first report. Source: UCS. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

In addition, this Honda model has lower greenhouse gas emissions than the fleet average standard required by all cars in 2025, the equivalent of a 50% reduction from current required levels. The following year, in 1999, the 2000 Accord was the first certified Super Ultra-low Emission Vehicle (SULEV) gasoline vehicle. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2011

million and spend more than $700 million in new pollution controls that will help protect public health and resolve Clean Air Act violations at its St. The Clean Air Act requires major sources of air pollution to obtain such permits before making changes that would result in a significant emissions increase of any pollutant.

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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 17, 2009

World production of fossil fuels—oil, coal, and natural gas—increased 2.9% In 2000, coal provided 28% of the world’s fossil fuel energy production, compared with 45% for oil. The growth in China’s coal consumption since 2000 dwarfs that of all other countries combined. Total gas production grew 3.8% in 2008 to reach 27.4

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2014

Ozone pollution across the continental United States will become far more difficult to keep in check as temperatures rise, according to new work led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Ozone pollution also damages crops and other plants. Scenario A2 and RCP 8.5. The RCP 8.5 Ozone formation.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Like many other people, we were writing articles around 2000 about the decline in China’s energy consumption in the late 1990s. Another major shift is that China has become a voracious energy importer, especially of coal and liquefied natural gas. Now the decline has completely disappeared—they found it. It was underreported.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Effects of changes in the average lifespan of ordinary passenger cars newly registered between 1990-2000 on total induced CO 2 emissions in 2000. Conversely, encouraging shortened vehicle lifetime via vehicle replacement schemes can result in higher total-induced greenhouse gas emissions, the authors found. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2015

About 57% of the transit vehicles are operating on natural gas while six% are hybrids. The 2000 Fleet Rule for Transit Agencies (Transit Fleet Rule) required reductions in both criteria pollutant emissions and exposure to air contaminants from urban buses and transit fleet vehicles. Source: ARB. Click to enlarge. Background.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2011

Under the scheme, around 500 of the largest emitters in Australia—facilities that have direct greenhouse gas emissions of 25,000 tonnes of CO 2 -equivalent per year or more (excluding emissions from transport fuels and some synthetic greenhouse gases)—will need to buy and surrender to the Government a permit for every tonne they produce.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Automobiles are major contributors to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Further highlights from the report include: The passenger vehicle fleet in China grew at an annual average rate of 25% during 2000-11, from fewer than 10 million cars to 73 million cars. million EVs and a fleet of 3.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

New research by a team at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York suggests that gas-aerosol interactions can amplify the global warming impact of some greenhouse gases. Hydroxyl is so reactive scientists consider it an atmospheric detergent or scrubber because it cleanses the atmosphere of many types of pollution.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Different from traditional fuel vehicles, pollution-free has become their biggest advantage. 2) Ni-MH battery: advantages, large battery energy reserve, lighter weight, longer service life, and no pollution to the environment. The reason why electric vehicles are developing rapidly is that they rely on batteries as their power source.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2009

In testimony for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public hearing ( earlier post ) on the proposed endangerment finding for greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act ( earlier post ), Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson urged the EPA to include black carbon in the finding. Mark Jacobson. F, with about 40% due to ozone.

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Carbon EPA Pollution Ozone 150

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

The basic idea of the new Diesel combustion illustrated in this paper is to control the heat release rate by a gradual supply of an almost homogeneous charge, without relying on exhaust gas recirculation to moderate the reaction. Pollutant emission behavior vs. engine speed.confirms the validity of the HCPC combustion concept.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2009

Indexed European transport sector greenhouse gas emissions, 1990-2006. Transport continues to contribute disproportionally to Europe’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, poor air quality and noise, and still uses the least efficient modes to move people and goods according to a new report from the European Environmental Agency (EEA).

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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. New injectors for the 3.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2012

Projected changes in summer mean usable capacity of power plants in the US and Europe for the SRES A2 emissions scenario for the 2040s (2031–2060) relative to the control period (1971–2000). This causes downstream thermal pollution affecting, for example, life cycles of aquatic organisms. Source: van Vliet et al. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

To answer the above question, we analyzed 1622 biofuels-related articles published between 2000 and 2009 across a range of social, environmental, and technical topics. Energy production and use is one of the most intensive human enterprises, with numerous economic and societal benefits, as well as societal and environmental drawbacks.

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Industrial Industry Global Climate Change 239

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

BNSF has been operating four liquefied natural gas yard locomotives in downtown Los Angeles since the mid-1990s. In 2000, the ARB established California’s Diesel Risk Reduction Plan, which aims to reduce diesel emissions to 85% below 2000 levels by 2020. NO x helps create ground-level ozone, or smog.

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Diesel California Emissions 2007 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

The California Air Resources Board released the latest edition of the state’s Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory , which shows that emissions fell by 1.5 Bar chart of 2000 to 2013 GHG emissions by category as defined in the Scoping Plan. Over the 2000 to 2013 period, per capita GHG emissions in California dropped from a peak of 14.0

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JULY 21, 2009

The standard FedEx trucks used in the retrofit program were 2000 or 2001 models with 300,000 to 500,000 miles driven. An added benefit of the conversion program is that it not only reduces pollution but also extends the life of the vehicles, helping to eliminate waste production and creating a reduce-and-reuse program.

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AUGUST 22, 2009

The European Community’s air pollutant emission inventory report released by the European Environment Agency finds that in 2007, sulphur oxides (SO x ) emissions were down by 72 % from 1990 levels. EU-27 emissions of all four pollutants were lower in 2007 than in 2006.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Under its pollution prevention treaty (MARPOL), the International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted mandatory measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping: the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) and the Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan (SEEMP). Regulatory background. Background Data.

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Emissions Australia Carbon South America 418

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

They are also poised to consume an additional 56 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas by 2030, and 83 bcm by 2050. Demand for plastics—the key driver for petrochemicals from an energy perspective—has outpaced all other bulk materials (such as steel, aluminium, or cement), nearly doubling since 2000.

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Oil Waste Economy Global 281

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Transportation (DOT) formally unveiled their joint proposal to set stronger fuel economy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for Model Year 2017-2025 passenger cars and light trucks. mpg US (5.87 L/100km) in model year 2021, and 49.6 L/100km) in model year 2025.

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Electric Auto Association

MAY 3, 2021

We were especially excited about the 4-wheelers because they’re used on farms all over the state and the gas vehicles are very noisy and air polluting.” “I Traveling to Atlanta to complete the training in early 2019, he met up with 2000 like-minded people from all over the world.

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Burma Oregon Climate Climate Change 52

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2019

California has made tremendous gains cutting pollution without detrimental economic impacts. The state’s per capita GDP has grown more than 41 percent while per capita greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by just over 25 percent since 1990. Noel Perry, founder of Next 10.

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