2008, Future and Ozone

Studies find global COVID-19 lockdowns have significantly reduced PM2.5 and NO2 pollution, but ozone up

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MAY 12, 2020

Levels of two major air pollutants have been reduced significantly since lockdowns began in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a secondary pollutant—ground-level ozone—has increased in China, according to new research. Ozone is harmful to humans at ground-level, causing pulmonary and heart disease. —Guy Brasseur.

Ozone

Ozone Pollution Global Iran

MECA emissions inventory & air quality modeling shows potential benefits of national cleaner trucks initiative at CARB limits

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JUNE 26, 2020

The base year was selected as 2028 and the modeled year of 2035 was chosen to allow seven years of phase-in of low NO x trucks meeting the future modeled CTI scenario emission limits while still providing adequate confidence from an air quality perspective. Later years should show additional improvements as greater fleet turnover occurs.

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Cleaner Ozone Emissions Atlanta

Study finds changes in the Arctic sea ice cover may be driving changes in atmospheric chemistry

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MARCH 2, 2012

Bromine also can remove ozone from the lowest layer of the atmosphere, the troposphere. Despite ozone’s beneficial role blocking harmful radiation in the stratosphere, ground-level ozone is a harmful pollutant. Bromine then reacts with a gaseous form of mercury, turning it into a pollutant that falls to Earth’s surface.

Mercury

Mercury Ozone United Kingdom 2008

CARB approves $423M plan to mitigate harm from Volkswagen defeat devices; significant investments in heavy-duty vehicles and equipment sectors

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MAY 26, 2018

Beginning in model year 2008 VW sold about 600,000 2.0- Excess NO x emissions are a major public health concern in California, because they are a key ingredient in formation of ozone (smog), CARB notes. More than 10 million Californians live in areas in extreme non-compliance areas for ozone. Background.

Ozone

Ozone Vehicles California Installation

California ARB moves forward with climate and air quality actions

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MARCH 24, 2017

Actions to promote ZEVs in these applications are important to foster further technology development so they become suitable for broader use in the future. Approximately 70% of the reductions needed to meet the ozone standard in the South Coast in 2031 would come from existing or proposed regulatory actions. emissions by more than 20%.

Climate

Climate California Ozone Pollution

PowerTrain to pay $2M penalty for selling nearly 80K engines that failed to meet Clean Air Act standards

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MARCH 1, 2011

Between 2002 and 2008, PowerTrain imported 79,830 nonroad engines or pieces of equipment into the US that were not covered by a Clean Air Act-required certificate of conformity. Under the settlement, PowerTrain will implement a plan to ensure that the engines and equipment they import in the future comply with Clean Air Act requirements.

Clean

Clean Cleaning District of Columbia Standards

PowerTrain to pay $2M penalty for selling nearly 80K engines that failed to meet Clean Air Act standards

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Between 2002 and 2008, PowerTrain imported 79,830 nonroad engines or pieces of equipment into the US that were not covered by a Clean Air Act-required certificate of conformity. Under the settlement, PowerTrain will implement a plan to ensure that the engines and equipment they import in the future comply with Clean Air Act requirements.

Clean

Clean Cleaning District of Columbia Standards

Study Finds Controlling Soot May Be Fastest Method to Reduce Arctic Ice Loss and Global Warming; Second-Leading Cause of Global Warming After CO2

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JULY 29, 2010

degrees Fahrenheit) over the last century and is expected to warm significantly more in the future if nothing is done. 2008] and methane [Schutz et al., 1990; Anisimov, 2007] and chemical production of ozone in already-polluted locations [Jacobson, 2008b]. For perspective, net warming in the Arctic has been at least 2.5

Global

Global Ozone CO2 Pollution

NASA GISS Study Finds That Methane Has an Elevated Warming Effect Due to Interactions With Aerosols

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

Because the latter was a $126 billion/year market in 2008, even small differences in GWPs can have large economic consequences. And hydroxyls drive long chains of reactions involving other common gases, including ozone. Shindell et al. Similar reactions influence the creation of nitrate aerosols.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Ozone Pollution

Calif. ARB releases GHG scoping plan update; more ZEVs, “LEV IV”, MD and HD regulations; ZEV for trucks; more LCFS

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Many of the strategies employed to reduce GHG emissions will also work to meet the national ambient air quality standard for ozone in 2032. However, to achieve the needed transportation GHG reductions and the corresponding 2032 ozone standards, the market uptake of advanced technologies will need to be accelerated. Vehicle technology.

Transportation

Transportation Emissions California Ozone

New study finds asthma morbidity in children is enhanced in areas with high traffic-related air pollution near the home

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APRIL 7, 2015

for future control measures. Research data included 11,390 emergency room visits and hospital admissions made by 7,954 children ages 0 to 18 between 2000 and 2008. and ozone in warm months, and with PM 2.5 , carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and oxides of nitrogen in the cool season.

Pollution

Pollution California Davis Ozone

California ARB soliciting research suggestions for FY 2012-2013 plan; sustainable communities, behavior, pollutant exposure, air pollution science, GHG targets

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DECEMBER 25, 2011

Sustainable Communities : The Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008 (SB 375) directs California’s metropolitan planning organizations to develop sustainable communities strategies that meet regional greenhouse gas reduction targets through integrated land use, housing and transportation planning.

Pollution

Pollution 2012 California 2013

National Academies release third review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The National Academies have released a third review of the 21 st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP); the review follows the Phase 1 and Phase 2 reviews by the National Research Council in 2008 and 2012 ( earlier post ) and assesses the progress the partnership has made. With the changes occurring in the industry, this should be revisited.

MPG

MPG Miles 2009 Fuel

HEI ACES study of lifetime animal exposure to New Technology Diesel Engine exhaust finds no lung cancer

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JANUARY 27, 2015

The ACES results are expected to play an important role in future risk reviews of diesel engines by international and US agencies. This phase was conducted at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in 2007 and 2008 and was the basis for selecting one HHDD engine/control system for health testing in Phase 3.

Exhaust

Exhaust Diesel Engine 2007

IPCC: GHG emissions accelerating despite mitigation efforts; major institutional and technological change required to keep the heat down

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APRIL 13, 2014

The global economic crisis 2007/2008 only temporarily reduced emissions. Emissions growth from increasing global passenger and freight activity could partly offset future mitigation measures that include fuel carbon and energy intensity improvements, infrastructure development, behavioral change and comprehensive policy implementation.

Emissions

Emissions Climate Change 2000 Climate

California ARB LEV III Concept Targeting Fleet-Average SULEV-Level Emissions Performance from New Vehicles by MY 2022

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Regarding future Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission regulations (Pavley 2), staff is evaluating studies of the feasibility and cost of advanced technologies to reduce GHG emissions that could achieve widespread sales and acceptance in the 2017-2025 timeframe.

Emissions

Emissions Fleet California Vehicles

NOAA Study Identifies Nitrous Oxide as Top Ozone-Depleting Emission in 21st Century

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AUGUST 28, 2009

Comparison of annual N 2 O ODP-weighted emissions from the 1990s with emissions of other ODS in 1987 and in 2008. Currently, anthropogenic N 2 O emissions represent the largest contribution to ozone depletion. Today, nitrous oxide emissions from human activities are more than twice as high as the next leading ozone-depleting gas.

Ozone

Ozone Emissions Climate 2009

Study finds marine workboat engines staying in service two times longer than estimated by EPA; emissions reduction implications

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MARCH 18, 2019

A longer service life reduces the fleet’s turnover rate to cleaner, lower-emitting engines, therefore increasing future-year emission estimates. Since real-world workboat engines are operating with longer lifespans, the actual nitrogen oxide emission reductions are 52 percent weaker than predicted in EPA’s 2008 Rule calculations.

Mariner

Mariner EPA Emissions Engine

ARB releases proposed cap-and-trade regulation for comment; transportation fuels impacted in 2015

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

The allocation system is designed to reward those who have taken early action and have invested in energy efficiency and GHG emissions reductions and will encourage continued investment in efficiency and clean energy in the future. Offset Protocols. Compliance and Enforcement. Resources.

2015

2015 Transportation Fuel Emissions

Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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JUNE 8, 2015

In February 2008, GRF became one of the first forests—and the largest—to receive verification as a source of greenhouse gas reductions under the protocols of the Climate Action Reserve , adopted by the California Air Resources Board in 2007. ozone depletion potential (ODP). photochemical ozone creation potential.

Carbon

Carbon Personal Store Emissions

SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

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APRIL 3, 2009

The SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) International Biofuels Project, has published the full proceedings of its Rapid Assessment workshop on the environmental effects of biofuel technologies, 22-25 September 2008. Future harvest of corn stover for cellulosic ethanol production would increase erosion (i.e.

Conversion

Conversion Water Emissions 2009

Comparative study finds that B20 increases emission rates of a number of pollutants in both light- and medium-duty diesel engines at idle

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OCTOBER 20, 2012

Unregulated pollutants also include ozone precursors and bioaccumulative and toxic compounds. The second engine was a Ford 2008 6.4 Future studies might be designed to evaluate the origin of these emissions. For the study, they used a GM 2002 1.7 L engine manufactured by Isuzu, which is used in passenger cars in Europe and Asia.

Pollution

Pollution Diesel Emissions Engine

EV Driven

Studies find global COVID-19 lockdowns have significantly reduced PM2.5 and NO2 pollution, but ozone up

MECA emissions inventory & air quality modeling shows potential benefits of national cleaner trucks initiative at CARB limits

Study finds changes in the Arctic sea ice cover may be driving changes in atmospheric chemistry

CARB approves $423M plan to mitigate harm from Volkswagen defeat devices; significant investments in heavy-duty vehicles and equipment sectors

California ARB moves forward with climate and air quality actions

PowerTrain to pay $2M penalty for selling nearly 80K engines that failed to meet Clean Air Act standards

PowerTrain to pay $2M penalty for selling nearly 80K engines that failed to meet Clean Air Act standards

Study Finds Controlling Soot May Be Fastest Method to Reduce Arctic Ice Loss and Global Warming; Second-Leading Cause of Global Warming After CO2

NASA GISS Study Finds That Methane Has an Elevated Warming Effect Due to Interactions With Aerosols

Calif. ARB releases GHG scoping plan update; more ZEVs, “LEV IV”, MD and HD regulations; ZEV for trucks; more LCFS

New study finds asthma morbidity in children is enhanced in areas with high traffic-related air pollution near the home

California ARB soliciting research suggestions for FY 2012-2013 plan; sustainable communities, behavior, pollutant exposure, air pollution science, GHG targets

National Academies release third review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership

HEI ACES study of lifetime animal exposure to New Technology Diesel Engine exhaust finds no lung cancer

IPCC: GHG emissions accelerating despite mitigation efforts; major institutional and technological change required to keep the heat down

California ARB LEV III Concept Targeting Fleet-Average SULEV-Level Emissions Performance from New Vehicles by MY 2022

NOAA Study Identifies Nitrous Oxide as Top Ozone-Depleting Emission in 21st Century

Study finds marine workboat engines staying in service two times longer than estimated by EPA; emissions reduction implications

ARB releases proposed cap-and-trade regulation for comment; transportation fuels impacted in 2015

Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

Comparative study finds that B20 increases emission rates of a number of pollutants in both light- and medium-duty diesel engines at idle

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