Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2016

In a paper published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care , researchers report that children exposed to higher levels of air pollution—even if relatively low—including fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) and soot (black carbon), had worse lung function than those living in less polluted areas. mL; -43.9,

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JANUARY 17, 2021

The main purpose of the project co-financed by the EU is to reduce pollutant emissions in the centre of the city. Since 2002, the manufacturer has supplied nearly 300 vehicles to Romanian carriers, including more than 100 Trollino vehicles and 41 Urbino 12 electric battery buses.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

The complaint filed in Manhattan federal court alleges that from approximately 2005 until at least late 2015, Toyota systematically violated Clean Air Act automobile defect reporting requirements designed to protect public health and the environment from harmful air pollutants. Representations to EPA.

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JUNE 18, 2016

This marks Canada’s first regulation of air pollutant emissions from locomotives. 2002–2004. The Government of Canada has published proposed Locomotive Emissions Regulations in the Canada Gazette, Part I. 1973–1992. 1993–2004. 2005–2011. 2012–2014. 2015 or later. Switch locomotive emission standards. Year of manufacture. 1973–2001.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2012

A scatter plot of CO, as a tracer for pollution, versus CO 2 , as a tracer for the amount of combustion, for 2002 and 2010. Even though the CO 2 enhancements over background were comparable in the two years, about 25 ppm in 2002 and 35 ppm in 2010, the ?CO/?CO2 CO2 ratio for this flight track segment decreased from 24.5

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Los Angeles Gasoline Ozone 2002 285

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2010

A team from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Colorado School of Mines has measured gas phase and particle-associated non-regulated pollutant emissions from a heavy-duty engine operating both with and without a catalyzed DPF and operating on biodiesel fuel. Experiments were conducted on a 2002 model year 5.9

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Pollution Engine Ireland 2002 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

The regulation stipulates that manufacturers shall demonstrate that their vehicles meet these requirements, based on the calculation method prescribed in ISO standard 22628:2002, before they can be put on the market. Japan also introduced similar legislation in 2002(Act No. 87 of July 12, 2002). 87 of July 12, 2002).

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Motor Motors Motoring 2002 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2013

Researchers from Rice University and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report in a paper in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry that particularly in Northeastern cities, ozone levels dropped even beyond what was anticipated by cutting emissions of NO x from 2002 to 2006. from 2002 to 2006. Earlier post.). —Daniel Cohan.

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Ozone EPA 2002 2006 218

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JULY 19, 2016

A study by a team of researchers from China and the US has shown that shipping emissions in East Asia accounted for 16% of global shipping CO 2 in 2013, compared to only 4–7% in 2002–2005. Attention on ships and ports has increased as seaborne trade has grown significantly in recent decades.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

These new SIPs demonstrate that, by 2024, pollution will be reduced to the level needed to attain the 1997 8-hour ozone standard of 0.08 ppm by 2024, NO x will have to be reduced by 75% and VOCs by 25% from 2002 levels. ppm by 2024, NO x will have to be reduced by 90% and VOCs by 52% from 2002 levels. For the SJV to attain 0.08

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Ozone EPA Pollution 2002 236

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Maritime traffic on the world’s oceans has increased four-fold over the past 20 years, likely causing more water, air and noise pollution on the open seas, according to a new study quantifying global ship traffic. The number of ships traversing the oceans grew by 60% between 1992 and 2002.

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Sri Lanka Global Somalia Pollution 225

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2012

In 2002, the 2003 Civic Hybrid was the first certified Advanced Technology Partial Zero-Emission Vehicle. (AT When fully in force in 2025, the new set of standards will reduce smog-causing pollutants from low-emission vehicles 75% from current levels, and greenhouse gases by 34%. AT PZEV) hybrid vehicle. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Comparable data on noise exposure in Europe is a prerequisite to set up EU policies to reduce noise pollution, a growing health and economic concern all over Europe. Member States will have to start using the new methods for the next round of EU-wide strategic noise mapping in 2017.

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Europe 2002 Pollution 2005 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2010

The program is geared to help small California-based fleets replace their older, polluting trucks with newer, cleaner models. Previously, the maximum amount of a voucher was $35,000; Trucks with 2002 and older engines may qualify for a newer truck.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

The new design increases total driving distance and optimizes the use of electric power to achieve 35% pollution reduction and a 20% increase in fuel efficiency, compared to comparable gasoline motorcycle engines. ABAT and Angell expect to go into full-scale production in April.

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Motorcycles Lithium Ion Hybrid Indianapolis 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2009

Jacobson first showed in 2000 that black carbon was the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide in terms of radiative forcing and, in 2002, that its control was the most effective method of slowing warming. Further, controlling soot will significantly reduce particulate air pollution deaths. Earlier post.).

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Carbon EPA Pollution Ozone 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

While properly engineered conversion systems can reduce or at least not increase emissions, poorly designed systems can lead to much more pollution. MY 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and < useful life mileage. MY 2010, 2011, 2012 and < useful life mileage. Exhaust, Evap, and OBD testing. Certification application.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

A new systematic review by The Lancet found that “people living in e-waste exposed regions had significantly elevated levels of heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants,” and it advocated for “novel cost-effective methods for safe recycling operations … to ensure the health and safety of vulnerable populations.”

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Waste Al Gore Gore Mercury 139

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2012

They found that the level of emissions of regulated and unregulated pollutants in diesel exhaust depends on fuel, load, engine calibration, and exhaust aftertreatment technology. L/2002 calibration and 6.4 Unregulated pollutants also include ozone precursors and bioaccumulative and toxic compounds. L/2004 calibration engines.

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Pollution Diesel Emissions Engine 231

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

CO 2 and NO x certification test data for heavy-duty diesel engines certified from 2002 through 2019. Source of data: US EPA (2019). Chart: MECA. A wide variety of technology options can be deployed on heavy-duty engines and vehicles to reduce engine-out NO x while improving fuel economy to reduce the total cost of ownership of trucks.

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Emissions Diesel Engine 2010 291

Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 21, 2007

The 7 Series has get a combined sub-20mpg and has an air pollution index of 6 out of 10. For comparison purposes, the 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV plug-in electric car has a mpg(equivalent) of over 100; and a best possible air pollution index of 10.)

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BMW 2002 Hydrogen Gasoline-Electric 100

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2010

While properly engineered conversion systems can reduce or at least not increase emissions, poorly designed systems can lead to much more pollution. MY 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and < useful life mileage. MY 2009, 2010, 2011 and < useful life mileage. Exhaust, Evap, and OBD testing 2. Intermediate age.

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Conversion EPA Fuel Clean Alternative 230

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2012

The result, he says, is that the Indian Ocean has had less time than the Atlantic and Pacific to dissipate lead pollution. They found that lead levels began to increase in the mid-1970s, peaking in 2002 and 2003 before beginning to decline—a timeline consistent with the region’s pattern of industrialization and leaded gasoline use. “It

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MAY 2, 2018

Chan School of Public Health suggests that long-term exposure to traffic-related pollution significantly increases the risk of pediatric asthma, especially in early childhood. Fine PM originates from fuel combustion, including traffic, power plants, and other pollution sources. —corresponding author Mary B.

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Pollution Boston MPH 150

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

A study lead by a team from the University of Southern California has found that higher exposure to early life near-road air pollution (NRAP) increased the rate of change of childhood body mass index (BMI) and resulted in a higher attained BMI at age 10 years that were independent of later childhood exposures. —Kim et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

transportation sectors, reducing fuel use and pollution and improving on the. program (Gen IV) in FY 2002. Announcement (FOA) for up to $40 million to support cost-shared design and. planning work for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant ( NGNP ). NGNP is envisioned. safety of existing commercial light water reactor technology.

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Design Industrial Industry Idaho 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings. Transportation.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 4, 2007

One altfuel epiphany Pogue blogged in May, 2006 came watching The Amazing Race 9 (CBS) in Brazil, where sugar cane-based ethanol has eliminated petroleum imports and reduced pollution. I invite Mr. Pogue to take a ride "back to the future" in my 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV. Why can't we do something like that, he wondered.

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Hydrogen BMW Alternative Fuels Brazil 100

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2012

After the UK had begun taxing vehicles according to CO 2 emissions, the share of registered new diesel cars increased from 26% in 2002 to 38% in 2005. The study also focused on climate impacts alone, without comparing with the adverse health impact caused by the air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2010

They collected data using a multi-part online survey, and elicited driving patterns and recharge potential using a plug-in potential diary of driving and parking for a vehicle purchased new (model year 2002 or later) that is driven several times per week by the respondent’s household. the electric range capability—of the PHEV.

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Plug-in Plug PHEV Electric Vehicles 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

With increasing pressure from air pollution, oil consumption and congestion, China is compelled to reinvent propulsion technologies. … The first target (1999-2002) was compressed natural gas (CNG), liquid petroleum gas (LPG) and other combustion alternative fuel vehicles (CAFVs), in a program called the Clean Auto Auction.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

In 2002 when she was just a freshman California Assemblywoman, this former school teacher worked with Bluewater Network (which later merged with Friends of the Earth ) to author the Assembly Bill that made California the first state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in automobiles. See, you really should have been there.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

GoinGreen was founded in 2002 with the mission to minimize the effects of climate change by encouraging carbon-neutral motoring. The company pioneered electric vehicles (EV) in the UK with the G-Wiz, an EV designed in California and manufactured in India by the Indo-Reva Electric Car company.

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Plug in America

DECEMBER 17, 2020

My ex and I got solar at home on his birthday in 2002, then our first EV, the RAV4, a couple months later, on the winter solstice. No pollution, well-to-wheels. The World Health Organization estimates that some seven million people die every year from polluted air. And with the solar panels, I was driving on sunshine. .

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Gore Solar Al Gore Gas-Electric 90

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2010

The standards were formerly known as “LEV III” (for the third stage of the Low Emission Vehicle standards) and “Pavley II” (for the second, post-2016 stage of California’s pioneering greenhouse gas standard, established under AB 1493, the 2002 law authored by California state senator Fran Pavley). Earlier post.).

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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

JANUARY 13, 2013

Apart from contaminated sites, the mercury pollution detected today is often found in locations very far away from its original source. UNEP produced its first Global Mercury Assessment in 2002 and a subsequent study in 2007. Use of coal for power generation and industry is increasing, especially in Asia.

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