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JULY 29, 2015

As a pilot, in August 2014, Aclima instrumented three Google Street View vehicles to perform a month-long system test in the Denver metro area during the DISCOVER-AQ study conducted by NASA and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Sample output from the Denver pilot. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 25, 2024

EPA announces new grant program to fund zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles, infrastructure, and workforce development to tackle climate change, reduce air pollution, and advance environmental justice DENVER — Yesterday, April 24, the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

has signed an EPA Test Vehicle Agreement with Waste Connections of Colorado, Inc. The test exemptions will allow APG to gather engine performance and emission data on a pre-dual fuel and post-dual fuel basis to support EPA approval requirements and commence commercialization of their non-invasive dual fuel upgrade system in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2014

Nitrogen dioxide is one of the six common pollutants regulated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to protect human health. After ten years in orbit, the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA’s Aura satellite has been in orbit sufficiently long to show that people in major US cities are breathing less nitrogen dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2016

In cities such as Denver, NO x comes primarily from vehicle tailpipes. First, it contains the major city of Denver as well as active oil and gas regions to the northeast. Last year, the EPA tightened the standard from 75 ppb to 70 ppb. Colorado has been out of compliance with federal ozone standard since 2007.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2010

The remaining cities included Denver, Boston, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Phoenix. San Diego, Portland and Sacramento were rated fifth, sixth and seventh putting four cities in California in the top-15 index. Rounding out the top ten were Newark, Seattle and Atlanta. New York (tie). Sacramento. Washington DC. Philadelphia.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2011

The study was presented as an invited paper at the 2010 annual meeting of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association in Denver, CO and published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. An ethanol industry support and lobby group called Growth Energy petitioned the EPA to increase the blending limit from 10% to 15%.The

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published the plan for the first tranche of Volkswagen’s National Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Investment spending, directed at 11 cities nationwide—New York, Washington, D.C.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

By comparison, the Nissan LEAF carries a 99 MPGe (combined) EPA rating, while the smaller i-MiEV carries a 112 MPGe (combined) rating. (1 The 19 launch markets also include Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2016

A study by researchers from the University of Denver and the University of Puget Sound indicates that high-mileage light-duty fleets contribute higher emissions and emissions share than expected based on their actual numbers in the fleet. Most emission inventory calculations use a computer model to estimate the fleet’s emissions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Atmospheric tests covering the entire country indicate emissions around 50 percent more than EPA estimates ,” said lead author Adam Brandt at Stanford University. These typically compare measurements to emissions inventories, such as the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) national GHG inventory (GHGI). A R Brandt et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2017

Based on our half-day of driving the new Tiguan in the foothills of Denver, the automaker has succeeded on the quality front. However, it is also more fuel efficient, picking up 2 mpg on the EPA combined cycle rating—an increase of 9% over the 2017 model. (As Maximum torque of 221 lb-ft is achieved at 1,600 to 4,300 rpm.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. Although Electrify America has a single vision—presented in both the EPA approved plan and the pending California ZEV plan—the two plans differ in implementations. One vision, two implementations.

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