Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2011

Transport for London (TfL) recently announced a package of measures to tackle pollution levels at the busiest roads in central London. The start of a greening program to trap pollution—a row of 50 green towers (six foot tall planters) have been installed along Lower Thames Street, one of central London’s most polluted roads.

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JUNE 25, 2013

A proposal for existing plants is due in 2014, with targeted file rule in 2015. In terms of investment in innovation for cleaner energy, the plan calls for: Investment in advanced fossil energy projects. The standards for new plants—already being developed by EPA—are to be done this fall.

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JANUARY 12, 2013

In February 2012, the China State Council approved its first national ambient air quality standard for PM 2.5 , which will come into effect by the end of 2015. 2020),” which plans to achieve accumulated sales of 500,000 new-energy vehicles (including hybrids and EVs) by 2015, and 5 million by 2020. Earlier post.]

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

Of that $37 billion, health costs added up to $24 billion in 2015; the $24 billion represents the monetized sum of harmful emissions responsible for an estimated 220,000 work-loss days, more than 109,000 asthma exacerbations, hundreds of thousands of other respiratory impacts, and 2,580 premature deaths. billion by 2050. New York: $7.9

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

In 2015, 5.9 WHO estimated in 2012 that 26% of childhood deaths and 25% of the total disease burden in children under five could be prevented through the reduction of environmental risks such as air pollution, unsafe water, sanitation and inadequate hygiene or chemicals. —“Don’t Pollute My Future”.

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JANUARY 21, 2017

These include cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars and zero emission vehicles, low-carbon fuels, renewable energy, waste diversion from landfills, water conservation, improvements to energy efficiency in homes and businesses, and a Cap-and-Trade Program. Mobile Source Strategy (Cleaner Technology and Fuels Scenario).

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

The program will expand in 2015 to include fuel distributors to address emissions from combustion of transportation fuels and combustion of natural gas and propane at sources not covered in the first phase of the program. Compliance and Enforcement. percent, virtually on par with the projected rate of 2.4 Transportation fuels.

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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 Under current control programs (left) and under the Cleaner Technologies and Fuels scenario (right). Projected statewide light duty vehicle technology mix. Click to enlarge. Passenger vehicles.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

In his January 2015 inaugural address, California Governor Jerry Brown identified five key climate change strategy “pillars,” which recognize that several major areas of the California economy will need to reduce their emissions to meet California’s ambitious climate change goals. Source: 2030 Target Scoping Plan Discussion Draft.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

Even with maximally feasible reductions phased in from 2015 to 2035, global mean temperatures in 2050 would be reduced by 0.16 °C, with a range of 0.04–0.35 International leaders took note and formed the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants in 2012.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

from the shifting of transportation’s air pollution from urban tailpipes to rural power plants—is distributed to predominately rural communities the incomes of which are on average lower than the cities in which the EVs are used. . Marshall (2015) “Environmental Justice Aspects of Exposure to PM2.5 —Ji et al. 5b04927.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

To reduce CO2 emissions, many countries signed the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate, pledging to cut their emissions by certain targets. Some cities are also promoting the use of EVs for urban delivery trucks, which have shorter ranges and less noise and air pollution than diesel trucks. According to Statista , EV adoption in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Australia’s heavy reliance on diesel could also be lessened with the added possibility of DME being able to replace diesel in the future. The fact that DME can be used as a blend in existing LPG engines makes it an effective transitional fuel. —CSIRO’s Dr. Nick Burke.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Of 39,450,000 allowances for the Advance Auction (2015 Vintage), 5,576,000 were sold with a settlement price of $10 (same reserve price). By putting a price on carbon, we can break our unhealthy dependence on fossil fuels and move at full speed toward a clean energy future. emissions). The next surrender of allowances will be Nov.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

Alternative LNG drive systems for ships reduce air pollutant emissions significantly—CO 2 by up to 25% and NO x by up to 30%, particulate matter by up to 60% and SO x by as much as 100%. Since the end of 2015, material from Turkey for the Autoeuropa plant in Portugal has been shipped from Izmir to Lisbon by sea.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Although several countries have issued targets for future EV fleets, it remains to be seen whether these goals can be met. Automobiles are major contributors to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. E.g., the 2025 CAFE/GHG limits in the US would be similar to what Japan already requires for 2015.

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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. In addition, fuels will come under California’s Cap-and-Trade Program in 2015.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

The Advanced Collaborative Emissions Study (ACES), released today by the Health Effects Institute (HEI), also confirmed that the concentrations of particulate matter and toxic air pollutants emitted from NTDE are more than 90% lower than emissions from traditional older diesel engines (TDE). Earlier post.)

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JULY 9, 2009

In a 2007 study, Winebrake and James Corbett from the University of Delaware (who is a co-author of the current study) concluded that pollution from marine shipping causes approximately 60,000 premature cardiopulmonary and lung cancer deaths around the world each year. Where fuel sulfur content is reduced globally to 0.5% Earlier post.)

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MARCH 7, 2013

Above all, it will fulfill my aim of making London’s air cleaner. If just 14 percent of journeys in central London were cycled, emissions there of the greatest vehicle pollutant, NO x , would fall by almost a third and over the years literally thousands of lives could be saved. —Mayor Johnson.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

The largest one-year emissions drop California has ever achieved was at the height of the Great Recession in 2009, when climate pollution fell 6.1%. This is the result of policies promoting cleaner vehicle fuels and advanced clean vehicle standards. This is plausibly due to bus fleets becoming cleaner or electrified.

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AUGUST 3, 2017

Nonetheless, says Krüger, “ Future mobility will definitely depend on state-of-the-art diesels as well, because environmental protection has several dimensions: one of them is the fight against climate change. ”. As a result, the BMW Group is calling for objective discussions on the future of diesel based on facts and scientific evidence.

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JANUARY 27, 2012

On the criteria pollutants side, LEV III reduces fleet average emissions of new passenger cars (PCs), light-duty trucks (LDTs) and medium-duty passenger vehicles (MDPVs) to. 2015 to 0.030 for all vehicle categories by 2030. The goal is to accelerate a transition already in process and to make sure it succeeds. The combined ROG+NO x.

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JULY 17, 2015

Appendix B: Car of the Future: A Comparison of Alternative Vehicles. Electrically-powered vehicles called plug-in electric vehicles, (PEVs), can shift us from exclusive use of gasoline and diesel to offer a pathway to a future of burning no fossil materials. Even more new uses will be discovered in the future. Conclusions.

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JULY 27, 2021

we here you ask… We’ll quite literally take you back to the future and explain… It’s the car of the future, made in the past! The great shift away from polluting fossil fuels in favour of far cleaner battery technology. Total score – 25. AMC Pacer Mirthmobile .

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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. In 2015–nearly 90% of emissions. INTRODUCTION.

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MAY 12, 2024

Further, as one of the most polluting sectors globally and the most polluting in rich countries , it is necessary that transportation clean up its act, and fast, in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change. 84% in 2015), leapfrogging several early adopter nations. If we want to pick winners, then why don’t we pick us.

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