Green Car Congress
MAY 1, 2023
Coal trains and terminal operations add a significant amount of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) pollution to urban areas—more so than other freight or passenger trains— according to a study conducted in Richmond, California, by the University of California, Davis. million deaths per year globally.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
Thus, it is important to identify and quantify the most important human-produced sources of VOC emissions to effectively mitigate air pollution and improve human health, the authors said. Even so, lotions, paints and other products contribute about as much to air pollution as does the transportation sector. Frost, James M.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 21, 2014
Average annual percentage of black carbon pollution related to Chinese exports. China is responsible for only a small percentage of the annual pollution in the US, but powerful global winds known as “westerlies” can push airborne chemicals across the ocean in days, particularly during the spring, causing dangerous spikes in contaminants.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
Fulton, UC Davis, examines how major changes in urban transport investments worldwide would affect urban passenger transport emissions as well as mobility by different income groups. —Lew Fulton, co-director of NextSTEPS Program at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. The study by Michael Replogle, ITDP, and Lewis M.
Green Car Congress
JULY 29, 2021
Creating a fuel cell engine for these trains would potentially eliminate their emissions and provide a much-needed reduction in air pollution from the railways that serve California’s warehouses and ports. Switcher locomotives are a type of engine for trains that carry goods from ports to nearby warehouses.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 13, 2009
University of California, Davis researchers will receive $2.8 These environmental impacts are not fully documented, according to Tom Tomich, director of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis. Data on agricultural nitrogen pollution are limited, and some nitrogen pollution forms are difficult to monitor.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 17, 2020
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have conducted a statistical analysis of pollution exposure and yields from 1980 to 2015 on a key sector making up about 38% of the state’s total agricultural output: perennial crops such as almonds, grapes, nectarines, peaches, strawberries and walnuts.
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