Climate Change Guidelines Pollution Resource 
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
New WHO has issued new Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) that reduce levels of key air pollutants, some of which also contribute to climate change. Since WHO’s last 2005 global update, there has been a marked increase of evidence that shows how air pollution affects different aspects of health. Source: WHO.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 12, 2019
Air pollution could be causing double the number of excess deaths a year in Europe than has been estimated previously, according to a study published in the European Heart Journal. Air pollution caused twice as many deaths from CVD as from respiratory diseases. The researchers found that air pollution caused an estimated 8.8
Cars That Think
APRIL 21, 2022
Fortunately, we still have a narrow window of opportunity to alter the Earth’s climate path, and I believe we can do it. Climate change is a global societal crisis that is causing devastating consequences. More than half the world’s people live in urban areas, yet only 12 percent of cities achieve WHO guidelines for air quality.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 26, 2014
Black carbon (BC) from incomplete biomass and fossil fuel combustion is the most strongly light-absorbing component of particulate matter (PM) air pollution and a major climate-forcing emission. Air pollution mitigation efforts focusing on reducing combustion pollution are likely to have major benefits for climate and human health.
Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2016
In a separate action, EPA also issued revised guidelines for reducing emissions from existing MSW landfills, updating the previous Emissions Guidelines, which also were issued in 1996. The NMOC portion of LFG can contain various organic HAPs (hazardous air pollutants) and VOCs (volatile organic compounds).
Green Car Congress
JUNE 2, 2014
Specifically, the EPA is proposing state-specific rate-based goals for carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector, as well as emission guidelines for states to use in developing plans to attain the state-specific goals. Cutting particle pollution, nitrogen NO x , and SO x by more than 25% as a co-benefit.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 23, 2010
Several states, local governments and environmental organizations had sued EPA over the agency’s failure to update the pollution standards for fossil fuel power plants and petroleum refineries, two of the largest source categories of GHG pollution in the United States. pollutants. pollutants separately, EPA said.
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