Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
However, the revocation—if it is legally possible, of which there is some question—reprises a conflict between California and the Bush Administration, which denied California a waiver in 2007 requested to regulate automotive greenhouse gas emissions ( earlier post ). At the time, California vowed it would sue to resolve the issue.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 28, 2020
The California Air Resources Board approved a new regulation designed to reduce pollution further from ocean-going vessels while docked at California’s busiest ports. The rule builds on progress achieved by the At-Berth Regulation adopted in 2007. An example would be purchasing zero-emission heavy-duty trucks for port use.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
The study looked at water quality regulations and found that local officials more heavily enforced regulations on polluting firms that were monitored and tracked by the central government, while not enforcing regulations on firms not tracked. A 10% reduction in pollution led to a 3% drop in productivity for China’s polluting industries.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 25, 2013
The approximate linear relationship for each region is notable, suggesting that the dependence of urban NO 2 pollution upon population follows a power law scaling with population. Even though larger cities are typically more energy efficient with lower per-capita emissions, more people still translates to more pollution.) ppb (India).
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Although China and India remain the world’s largest consumers of coal, a new University of Maryland-led study found that China’s sulfur dioxide emissions fell by 75% since 2007, while India’s emissions increased by 50%. Sulfur dioxide is an air pollutant that causes acid rain, haze and many health-related problems.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 2, 2013
The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency is soliciting proposals from qualified bidders to test engine upgrade and conversion technologies on older heavy-duty diesel trucks. Diesel engines emit fine particle pollution, a toxic pollutant of concern to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. grams per brake horsepower-hour.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 8, 2018
pollution in the state. is especially burdensome in California and accounts for the greatest percentage of health impacts attributable to air pollution. The satellite technology fills spatial and temporal gaps in air quality data. The open-access study, which focused on the four major components of PM 2.5 to predict PM 2.5
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