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The importance of considering non-exhaust traffic emissions; the role of EVs

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Regulatory regimes seeking to reduce emissions from transport have largely focused on tailpipe emissions—i.e., 2013 found that the ratio of non-exhaust to exhaust particles is strongly increasing in the last two decades, due to exhaust emission reductions. Further, a 2013 review by Denier van der Gon et al. earlier post ).

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Imaging study: air pollution impairs function of blood vessels in lungs

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The volunteers were exposed to ambient air or dilute diesel exhaust with a PM 2.5 and ozone on pulmonary circulation on the same day and over five and ten days. —lead author Dr Jean-Francois Argacha, a cardiologist at the University Hospital (UZ) Brussels, Belgium.

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