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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Two maps compare total annual sulfur dioxide amounts for India and China during 2005 (left) and 2016 based on Ozone Monitoring Instrument measurements. The country opened its largest coal-fired power plant in 2012 and has yet to implement emission controls like China.

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JULY 8, 2014

Decision and rule making at the state and national levels in the US have been informed in part by limited, out of date, and sometimes incomplete emission inventories and self-reported industry data. 2012) “ Defining the Shale Gas Life Cycle: A Framework for Identifying and Mitigating Environmental Impacts ,” World Resources Institute.

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Gas Oil-Sands Emissions Oil 218

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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. California’s vehicle GHG standards—authorized by AB 1493 (Pavley) in 2002, first approved in 2004, and extended in 2012—are delivering fuel consumption and CO 2 reductions.

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Transportation Emissions California Ozone 273

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MARCH 19, 2012

Taylor 2012. Respectively, Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act and the Ozone Transport Commission/NO x Budget Program.). —Taylor 2012. Taylor (2012) Innovation under cap-and-trade programs, PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1113462109. and NO 2 regulation in the US in 1970. Click to enlarge. Margaret R. 1113462109.

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Climate Energy Clean Cleaning 261

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Many school districts use diesel buses for fuel efficiency, but even diesel exhaust was classified as a known carcinogen to humans in 2012.

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OCTOBER 2, 2015

ARB staff developed this strategy using a multi-pollutant scenario planning tool ( Vision 2.0 ) that quantifies changes in ozone and PM 2.5 is the next generation of ARB’s first Vision scenario planning tool used for ARB’s D raft Vision for Clean Air: A Framework for Air Quality and Climate Planning published in 2012. Vision 2.0

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Clean Cleaning Emissions Cleaner 150

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

The spatially (12 km grids) and temporally explicit LCI not only provides the level of detail necessary to perform detailed LCIA (life cycle impact assessment) of air pollutant emissions, it also gives information on spatial and temporal trends that can be useful in policy making and regulation, the authors suggest. —Tessum et al.

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Gasoline Emissions Gasoline-Electric Pollution 236

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MARCH 25, 2014

The World Health Organization now estimates that in 2012 around 7 million people died—one in eight (12.5%) of total global deaths—as a result of air pollution exposure. The new estimates are based on the latest WHO mortality data from 2012 as well as evidence of health risks from air pollution exposures. Click to enlarge.

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Pollution Global Ozone Coal 358

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

ARB will hold a one-day workshop on 2 March to discuss its preliminary thoughts and sources of information upon which to base the proposed standards and procedures. Light-duty passenger cars and trucks are responsible for a major fraction of ozone- forming emissions: NO x (15% of California emissions), CO (42%), and ROG (21%).

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Emissions Fleet California Vehicles 186

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

Starting in 2012, the program will cover electricity generation, including imports, and large industrial sources and processes with annual GHG emissions at or above 25,000 MTCO 2 e. The initial cap level in 2012 will be set at the level of emissions expected in 2012 from sources covered at the start of the program.

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2015 Transportation Fuel Emissions 210

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JANUARY 27, 2015

This phase was conducted at SwRI in 2012. HEI has funded more than 330 research projects in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, the results of which have informed decisions regarding carbon monoxide, air toxics, nitrogen oxides, diesel exhaust, ozone, particulate matter, and other pollutants.

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Exhaust Diesel Engine 2007 150

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AUGUST 18, 2015

Sources already subject to the 2012 NSPS requirements for VOC reductions that also would be covered by the proposed 2015 methane requirements would not have to install additional controls, because the controls to reduce VOCs reduce both pollutants. EPA required green completions for hydraulically fractured natural gas wells in its 2012 rules.

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EPA Oil Gas Industrial 150

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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. These new targets need to be set for the research efforts.

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MPG Miles 2009 Fuel 150

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OCTOBER 20, 2012

Unregulated pollutants also include ozone precursors and bioaccumulative and toxic compounds. Information pertaining to these emissions in diesel engine exhaust is much less complete than that for the regulated pollutants. that decrease, the magnitude of that decrease will vary from one toxic to another”. —Chin et al.

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Pollution Diesel Emissions Engine 231

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

The use of petroleum-derived fuels is an important source of reactive gas-phase organic carbon that provides key precursors to the formation of secondary OA (SOA) and tropospheric ozone. SOA from diesel sources outweighs gasoline contributions, and other sources provide significant precursors in many urban regions. —Gentner et al.

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