2000, Pollution and United States

Study associates long-term exposure to air pollution with increasing emphysema

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2019

Long-term exposure to ambient air pollutants, especially O 3 (ozone), is significantly associated with increasing emphysema, according to a new study led by the University of Washington, Columbia University and the University at Buffalo. Ground-level ozone is mostly produced when ultraviolet light reacts with pollutants from fossil fuels.

Pollution

Pollution Ozone Washington Universal

10-year study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease; accelerated plaque build-up in arteries

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2016

Long-term exposure to particulate air pollution has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, but the biological process has not been understood. Participant-specific pollutant concentrations averaged over the years 2000–10 ranged from 9.2–22.6 Agatston units per year (95% CI 1.4–6.8) Agatston units per year (0.9–8.7)—about

Pollution

Pollution Los Angeles Building Universal

Harvard study links short-term exposure to PM2.5 with risks of common but rarely studied causes of hospital admissions; substantial economic costs

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

The study shows that the health dangers and economic impacts of air pollution are significantly larger than previously understood. Fine particulate air pollution is composed of tiny solids and liquids floating in the air that come from sources such as motor vehicles, coal-fired power plants, and wildfires. Chan School of Public Health.

Pollution

Pollution Grant 2000 Coal

MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2013

emissions from combustion sources such as industrial smokestacks, vehicle tailpipes, marine and rail operations, and commercial and residential heating throughout the United States cause about 200,000 (90% CI: 90,000–362,000) premature deaths each year, with another 10,000 (90% CI: ?1,000 Industrial emissions contribute to ?41,000

MIT

MIT Emissions Ozone Power

Canada publishes proposed regulations for criteria pollutants from locomotives

Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2016

This marks Canada’s first regulation of air pollutant emissions from locomotives. The emission standards set out in these proposed regulations will also align with those of the United States. The United States started regulating CAC emissions from locomotives in 2000. Background.

Canada

Canada Pollution 2004 Emissions

Study Finds Damage, Pollution from Western Wildfires Could Surge With Moderate Global Warming

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2009

By 2055, wildfires in the western United States could scorch about 50% more land than they do now, causing a sharp decline in the region’s air quality, according to a new study by atmospheric researchers at Harvard. Relative to the other scenarios, it leads to a moderate warming of the earth’s average surface temperature, about 1.6

Pollution

Pollution Global Climate Change United States

Study finds paved surfaces in Houston worsen air quality

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

New research by a team from the US, China and Japan focusing on the Houston, Texas area suggests that widespread urban development alters weather patterns in a way that can make it easier for pollutants to accumulate during warm summer weather instead of being blown out to sea. ““The very existence of the Houston area favors stagnation.”

Houston

Houston Wind Pollution 2000

Berkeley Lab releases 8th edition of databook on China’s energy and environment; finding the “missing” energy consumption

Green Car Congress

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. Like the United States, China has become among the world’s largest importers of oil, gas and coal. Industry consumes two-thirds of China’s energy, compared to less than 30% in the United States.

Environment

Environment Energy Coal United States

US 2nd-largest petroleum refinery to pay more than $5.3M for Clean Air Act violations

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2011

and the owner of the second-largest petroleum refinery in the United States, has agreed to pay a civil penalty of more than $5.3 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. Croix, US Virgin Islands refinery.

Virgin Islands

Virgin Islands Clean Cleaning Pollution

Global auto production may hit 80+ million units this year; hybrids below 2% of total output

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Automobiles are major contributors to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Even though the United States has just 25% of the total population of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations, in 2008 it alone accounted for just above 40% of the 10.3 million EVs and a fleet of 3.5

Global

Global Auto Production Hybrid

Six refineries in $425M settlement with EPA and DOJ over emissions violations

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. million civil penalty that Tesoro will pay, the United States will receive $8,050,000, and co-plaintiffs including the states of Alaska and Hawaii, and the Northwest Clean Air Agency will share $2.4

Emissions

Emissions EPA Pollution Hawaii

UNECE adopts three new regulations to improve the safety and environmental performance of motor vehicles

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

In the nine countries for which data is available (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Netherlands, Republic of Korea and United States) more than 10,000 people died in pole or other side impacts in 2009. Pole side impact tests exist today in Canada and the United States of America. 49 and 96.

Motor

Motor Motors Motoring 2002

Study estimates 6% of lung cancer deaths in US and UK attributable to diesel exhaust

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

However, their attributable fraction AF estimates for occupational and environmental DEE exposure is generally consistent with some previous estimates for traffic-related air pollution and lung cancer mortality and incidence. Our estimates suggest that stringent occupational and environmental standards for DEE should be set.

Exhaust

Exhaust Diesel Brazil 2000

Study finds rising temperatures increase risk of unhealthy ozone levels absent sharp cuts in precursors

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. Ozone formation.

Ozone

Ozone Climate Change Pollution Climate

IEA: improving efficiency of road-freight transport critical to reduce oil-demand growth; three areas of focus

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”.

Oil

Oil Transportation Alternative Fuels Fuel Economy

EPA report to Congress finds a strong scientific and technical foundation for mitigating black carbon emissions

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

BC is a significant component of particulate matter (PM) pollution, which has been linked to adverse health and environmental impacts through decades of scientific research. The United States contributes about 8% of the global emissions of BC. Earlier post.). emissions in 2005. Many countries have significantly higher PM 2.5

Congress

Congress EPA Carbon Emissions

DLR and Wuppertal publish comprehensive global analysis of e-mobility technologies, outlook and lifecycle assessments

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2015

They counted more than 500 electric passenger vehicles of all those types worldwide in the period from 2000 to 2013. Number of series-production electric vehicles by OEM, 2000-2013. The largest share of PHEVs were found between a vehicle curb weight of 1500 kg (3,300 lbs) and 2000 kg (4400 lbs). Click to enlarge.

Global

Global 2000 Germany 2013

Study projects thermoelectric power in Europe and US vulnerable to climate change due to lower summer river flows and higher river water temperatures

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). 16% in the United States depending on cooling system type and climate scenario for 2031—2060. Source: van Vliet et al. Click to enlarge.

Climate Change

Climate Change Water Climate Europe

Black carbon is a much larger cause of climate change than previously assessed; about twice previous estimates, and 2/3 the effect of CO2

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).

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Carbon CO2

The New Supersonic Boom

Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

The main obstacles will be regulatory and, especially, environmental: Supersonic airliners could be hugely more polluting than their subsonic counterparts. Although the United States chose not to participate in the development of the Concorde, in 1963 President John F. Kennedy announced plans to develop a U.S.

Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City Ozone Oklahoma Fuel

IEA: Petrochemicals set to be the largest driver of world oil demand

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

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. The dynamism of the petrochemical industry is also driving new trends around the world.

Oil

Oil Waste Economy Global

Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

February, 2008 : Researchers from England, Germany, and the United States proposed replacing the term “tipping point”, which suggests a specific time frame, with “tipping elements” to describe known ecosystems in danger of collapse, yet for which a likely timeframe could not easily be estimated ( earlier post ).

Climate

Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions

ICCT report finds global implementation of advanced emissions and fuel-quality regs could cut early deaths from vehicle emissions by 75% in 2030

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Global trends in vehicle-kilometers traveled (VKT) and early deaths from vehicle-related fine particle exposure (2000–2030). Furthermore, this would also deliver a net annual reduction of at least 200 MtCO 2 e from short-lived climate pollutants in 2030 (using GWP-100 values). Chambliss et al. Click to enlarge.

Emissions

Emissions Global Fuel Vehicles

Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

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.

Plug-in

Plug-in Plugin Plug Hybrid

Final session on international mercury convention this week expected to culminate in agreement; UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 finds industrial source Hg emissions may be rising

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) estimates that 1,960 tonnes of mercury arising from human activities are currently emitted annually into the atmosphere, generated mainly by artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM)—the largest single anthropogenic source globally—and coal- or lignite-fired power plants.

Mercury

Mercury Emissions 2013 Global

We Are ALL Tongan

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 17, 2009

And I see the very same fate for the men, women and children of our world here in California and across the United States coming much sooner than you think. Elementary School in Koulo, Tonga Courtesy of National Geographic (c) toensing-photography. There’s a lot more than just sea level rise coming our way.

Tonga

Tonga Climate Change San Francisco Climate

The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

The US electrical power industry alone “is influenced by a variety of decision-makers, including over 200 investor-owned utilities, 10 federal power authorities, over 2000 publicly-owned utilities, about 900 rural electric cooperatives, seven RTOs [ Regional Transmission Organizations ], 48 state regulatory bodies [e.g.,

Grid

Grid Iowa Wind Miles

Electric bus revolution

Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 29, 2021

They are also a great contributor to air pollution which results in poor air quality. There are roughly 480,000 school buses being used for school transportation in the United States more than twice the size of all other modes of mass transit combined. Electric bus revolution . Electric school buses are a worthy investment.

Electric

Electric Electrical BYD India

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. CURRENT REGIONAL CAP-AND-TRADE PROGRAMS.

Gas

Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

EV Driven

Study associates long-term exposure to air pollution with increasing emphysema

10-year study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease; accelerated plaque build-up in arteries

Harvard study links short-term exposure to PM2.5 with risks of common but rarely studied causes of hospital admissions; substantial economic costs

MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

Canada publishes proposed regulations for criteria pollutants from locomotives

Study Finds Damage, Pollution from Western Wildfires Could Surge With Moderate Global Warming

Study finds paved surfaces in Houston worsen air quality

Berkeley Lab releases 8th edition of databook on China’s energy and environment; finding the “missing” energy consumption

US 2nd-largest petroleum refinery to pay more than $5.3M for Clean Air Act violations

Global auto production may hit 80+ million units this year; hybrids below 2% of total output

Six refineries in $425M settlement with EPA and DOJ over emissions violations

UNECE adopts three new regulations to improve the safety and environmental performance of motor vehicles

Study estimates 6% of lung cancer deaths in US and UK attributable to diesel exhaust

Study finds rising temperatures increase risk of unhealthy ozone levels absent sharp cuts in precursors

IEA: improving efficiency of road-freight transport critical to reduce oil-demand growth; three areas of focus

EPA report to Congress finds a strong scientific and technical foundation for mitigating black carbon emissions

DLR and Wuppertal publish comprehensive global analysis of e-mobility technologies, outlook and lifecycle assessments

Study projects thermoelectric power in Europe and US vulnerable to climate change due to lower summer river flows and higher river water temperatures

Black carbon is a much larger cause of climate change than previously assessed; about twice previous estimates, and 2/3 the effect of CO2

The New Supersonic Boom

IEA: Petrochemicals set to be the largest driver of world oil demand

Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

ICCT report finds global implementation of advanced emissions and fuel-quality regs could cut early deaths from vehicle emissions by 75% in 2030

Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Final session on international mercury convention this week expected to culminate in agreement; UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 finds industrial source Hg emissions may be rising

We Are ALL Tongan

The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

Electric bus revolution

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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