Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

They used the model and the data to estimate the life cycle air pollution, greenhouse gas, and traffic externality benefits and costs of serving rides based on Chicago TNC trip data from 2019 to 2022 with fully electric vehicles. The authors acknowledge funding from Carnegie Mellon University’s Wilton E.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have found that the air pollution and greenhouse gas costs of shipping crude by rail are nearly twice as large as those for oil pipelines. Air pollution and greenhouse gas damages for transportation by railroad and pipelines to the gulf coast. Clay et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Children living in polluted megacities are at increased risk for brain inflammation and neurodegenerative changes, including Alzheimer or Parkinson’s disease, according to a study led by University of Montana Professor Dr. Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas and her colleagues. —Calderón-Garcidueñas et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2016

Long-term exposure to particulate air pollution has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, but the biological process has not been understood. Participant-specific pollutant concentrations averaged over the years 2000–10 ranged from 9.2–22.6 The study is published in The Lancet. and NO x between 1999 and 2012. μg PM 2.5 /m

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2017

A new study by Ryan Kellogg, a professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and author of the study, evaluates the current approach and proposes a novel, market-based alternative: indexing the standard to rise and fall with the price of gasoline. And, it doesn’t require new legislation from Congress.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2021

A few examples of 2021 Low-No grant projects include: The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) will receive nearly $7 million to purchase battery electric buses and charging equipment, upgrade its Southside bus depot and provide workforce training. Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). Broome County (NY). City of Fayetteville (NC).

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 24, 2021

A bold new program is accelerating the transition to zero-emissions trucks.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2019

Paul, Minnesota; Chicago; and Los Angeles. While the study finds an association between air pollution and atherosclerosis, researchers aren’t clear on why. For policy in the US, the focus should be on how to effectively control ozone concentration, which may be harder because it’s a secondary pollutant. —Meng Wang.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Life cycle emissions by pollutant and life cycle stage for each vehicle type in the recent (a) and future (b) PJM grid. They then modeled the emissions from those power plants, the effects of emissions on air pollution in downwind counties, and the resulting implications for human health and the environment. Source: Weis et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) announced the first research grants from the EPIC-UCAS Joint Center for Energy Policy Research in China.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 6, 2015

Today, read about the electric-car charging network operator charged with fraud in Chicago, more in our series covering a Tesla Model S road trip, and a Chinese documentary on air pollution that''s gone viral. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2013

In a state-by-state analysis, the researchers found that California suffers the worst health impacts from air pollution, with about 21,000 early deaths annually, mostly attributed to road transportation and to commercial and residential emissions from heating and cooking. 2000 (90% CI: 0–4,000) early deaths from ozone, according to the study.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Praxair Inc., a member of the Linde group - Praxair, Inc. will partner with ORNL to develop a multi-physics 3D CFD model of an Oxygen Transport Membrane (OTM) reactor module in a project titled “High Performance Computing for Improvement of Syngas Production Efficiency with OTM Technology.”.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2014

Geiger and Alberto Salvo, formerly with Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and now an associate professor of economics at the National University of Singapore, is the first real-world trial looking at the effects of human behavior at the pump on urban air pollution. Their paper appears in the journal Nature Geoscience.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2019

—co-author Michael Greenstone, the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). The analysis also does not assess the impact of RPS policies on criteria pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2016

We’re bringing the unique expertise Argonne has in vehicle and fuel life-cycle analysis to provide environmental information like petroleum use and greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions, as well as cost analysis, so users have as much information as possible. —Andrew Burnham, Argonne principal environmental scientist.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2016

million to six research organizations to develop and to use low-cost air pollution sensor technology, while engaging communities to learn about their local air quality. While recent advances in technology have led to the development of low-cost air pollution sensors, they have not been widely tested, especially under field conditions.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

The first fruits of the Joint Development Agreement (JDA) between New Way Trucks and Chicago-based HFC manufacturer Hyzon were revealed earlier today at the Las Vegas Convention Center with the kickoff of this year’s Waste Expo. Is hydrogen ideal? Does it make sense as an alternative fuel? Is it cleaner than diesel?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2016

There has been little recent research into the emission durability of these new fleets, and in this paper, we examine some recent and historical emission data from the Seattle and Chicago area to obtain a picture of how current livery vehicle emissions compare to the rest of the fleet and examine their importance to fleet emissions.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 29, 2024

Regardless of whether an unveiling happened at Javits or not, the fact that five or six new vehicles were shown in New York sort of makes up for Chicago being so quiet that I didn't even write a recap. You simply get more attention that way. Seeing my cab receipt, though, made it real. Manhattan remains a great place for car spotting.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2011

Doug Lundquist, University of Illinois Chicago, Pollution Credit Trading in Vehicle Ad Hoc Networks. An automated system for trading pollution credits among vehicles in which the level of pollution allowed per vehicle is capped and credits are given to less-polluting vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

The tech incubator is aiming to deliver innovative mobility and transportation solutions that help alleviate growing global challenges such as traffic congestion, parking availability and pollution. The company has since expanded to Boston, Seattle, New York, San Antonio, Austin, Chicago and London.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

Bogota’s project will improve local air quality and noise pollution. The transportation sector is the largest and fastest-growing source of urban CO 2 emissions in the Latin American region, as more people become dependent on motorized transport.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

The largest US cities—New York, Los Angeles and Chicago—score best in economic factors but are hindered by poor transportation infrastructure, lack of green spaces and diminishing affordable housing, according to the inaugural Sustainable Cities Index by ARCADIS, a leading global natural and built asset design and consultancy firm.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 6, 2024

For example, Friday afternoon I went to lunch and on the drive home I was trying to slide across a few lanes of Chicago's famed Lake Shore Drive, navigating some slower traffic as I approached my exit. I am generally accepting of regulations that involve safety or pollution reduction.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In an open-access report in the journal Environmental Pollution , researchers from UCLA and the University of Chicago estimate that California’s wildfire carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e) emissions from 2020 (~127 mmt CO 2 e ) are approximately two times higher than California’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions since 2003.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

City of Chicago, Department of Environment’s Chicago Area Alternative Fuels Deployment Project. The project will deploy 554 alternative fuel and hybrid electric vehicles and install 153 alternative fueling and electric vehicle charging stations throughout the Chicago region. Total DOE award: $14,999,905.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

Union Pacific operates in 23 states west of Chicago, while BNSF Railway is present in 28. Both pollutants are particularly harmful to children, the elderly and those who have preexisting health problems. The US EPA estimates the normal fleet turnover rate for a line-haul locomotive can take 30 years or more.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Paul, Minnesota; Cincinnati, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and Dayton, Ohio. The eleven metropolitan regions that were studied include Madison, Wisconsin; Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Minneapolis-St. In addition to Stone, Dr. Tracey Holloway, Scot Spak, and Adam Mednick also authored the study.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Fossil fuel-driven particulate air pollution cuts global average life expectancy by 1.8 years per person, according to a new pollution index and accompanying report produced by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). billion people, live in areas where particulate pollution exceeds the WHO guideline.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

Fleet Orders · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources – 1,800 · City of Chicago - 850 vehicles · Shohomish County, WA - 300 · City of Seattle - 410 · Kansas City, MO - 120 · Capital Metro (Transit agency in Austin) - 165 · ABC Lawn and Pest Control (Austin) - 150 Cities Cities continue to join the Plug-In Partners coalition.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 9, 2009

Add a solar PV system big enough to offset the building’s energy needs and charge the trucks, too, and you’ve just eliminated a whole lot of pollution, kept a lot of money from going out of the country and to the oil companies, and added value to your building. Sounds good to me. launch is worth noting.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. Volkswagen Group of America created Electrify America LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary headquartered in Reston, Virginia, to fulfill its Appendix C commitments.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

Without naming any immediate threat, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) believes that in general more research needs to be done in understanding of pollutants related to manure discharge. The closest commercial location was just south of Chicago, so it was 7 hours over, 2 hours there and 7 hours back.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

So, if you provide EV charging, you get that EV driver who’s coming in pollution-free. If you think about all the vertical cities, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and then Asia and Europe, they don’t have big flat parking lots like you have in Florida or we have in California.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

and especially California,” he says, “has come at the cost of exacerbating the air, water and soil pollution of Asian societies.” Researchers at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago have found that energy use varied little among homes with smart thermostats and those with conventional ones.

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