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Green Car Congress
JUNE 12, 2021
From the researchers’ point of view, this underlines the need to further reduce emissions of soot that is harmful to health and the climate, as the carbon-containing particles still contribute to health hazards and climate warming even over distances of several hundred kilometers. forest fires).
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
The works uses factors such as soil carbon and reservoir design to forecast methylmercury increases for 22 hydroelectric reservoirs under consideration or construction in Canada. Developing Canadian hydroelectric resources is a key component of North American plans for meeting future energy demands with a low carbon footprint.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Pie charts show the proportion of different types of energy sources generating power and flowing between load areas if there were a carbon tax of $70 per ton. To meet these carbon goals, coal has to go away from the region. One possible scenario for the electricity system in the Western US in 2026-29. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
The proposed revisions were based on scientific evidence about ozone and its effects on people and the environment, and resulted from a reconsideration of the primary and secondary ozone standards set at 0.075 ppm in 2008. Earlier post.) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 26, 2011
Air pollution from the 10,000 largest polluting facilities in Europe cost citizens between €102–169 billion (US$135–224 billion) in 2009, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) which analyzed the costs of harm to health and the environment caused by air pollution. Log scale) Source: EEA.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 13, 2015
The new program will expand Stanford’s research on energy and the environment by focusing additional resources on the growing importance of natural gas. Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 23, 2013
Continue implementation of Clean Air Act requirements on criteria pollutants (such as SO 2 and NO x ) and hazardous air pollutants (such as mercury) to include creating new performance standards for CO2 emissions from existing stationary sources, which would follow the performance standards for new plants released in March 2012.
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