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California gas vehicle ban faces pushback from 17 states

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AUGUST 25, 2022

California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) is expected to ban the sale of new ICE vehicles after 2035 tomorrow, but 17 State Attorney Generals have sued in federal court to block the move. According to the St. GM and Toyota have notably sued CARB for imposing emissions regulations; however, both have since rescinded their suit.

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Study links PM2.5 pollution to increased risk of diabetes; even low levels pose risk

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JULY 1, 2018

A study by a team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs (VA) St. Louis Health Care System links PM 2.5 pollution—even at levels deemed safe—to an increased risk of diabetes globally. Bowe, Benjamin et al.

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Modeling study suggests 1.8M excess deaths attributable to urban air pollution in 2019

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Both open-access studies are published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal and highlight the ongoing need for strategies to improve air pollution and reduce exposure to harmful emissions, particularly among children and the elderly. Louis, the University of Washington, Dalhousie University, and the University of California.

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WUSTL study finds use of air conditioning reduces in-car pollution

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AUGUST 11, 2017

A team at the University of Washington in St Louis has now measured simultaneous real-time particulate matter (particle numbers, lung-deposited surface area, PM 2.5 , particle number size distributions) and CO concentrations outside and in-cabin of an on-road car during regular commutes to and from work. Earlier post.).

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Study: no one knows which city has the highest concentration of PM2.5

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Chemical Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and lead author. The difference between the importance of this measure and the level of ground-based monitoring is shocking. —Randall Martin, professor in the Department of Energy, Environmental ? 2019.100040.

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Next 10 report says widespread EV adoption in California could deliver significant economic benefits to the state by 2030 and 2050

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JANUARY 28, 2020

million, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)). The results suggest the state could pursue this much more aggressively, reaping net benefits in terms of GHG emissions and a variety of economic and health co-benefits. California’s 2018 GSP was almost $3 trillion ($2,997,732.8 boost over the 2018 GSP.

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DOE Investing Up to $78M Investment in Two Consortia Targeting Algae-Based and Biomass-Based Bio-Hydrocarbon Fuels and Infrastructure; $1.6M for Ethanol Blends Fueling Infrastructure

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JANUARY 14, 2010

Led by the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, MO), NAABB will develop a systems approach for sustainable commercialization of algal biofuel (such as renewable gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel) and bioproducts. Co-products include animal feed, industrial feedstocks, and additional energy generation.

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Inorganic mercury converted to more toxic and bio-accumulative monomethylmercury in ocean waters, possibly by microbes

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APRIL 28, 2011

Clarkson noted that: Interferences from human-related Hg emissions within the biogeochemical cycle of Hg in natural waters have presented a complex environmental problem. Louis, Holger Hintelmann, Jane L. Methylation, in this case, is the addition of a methyl group to heavy metals catalyzed by certain enzymes. Fitzgerald and Thomas W.

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US DOE announces 3 consortia for $125M US-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center; solar, second-generation biofuels and buildings

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APRIL 14, 2012

Consortia researchers will leverage their expertise and resources in solar technology, advanced biofuels, and building efficiency. Louis; Corning Incorporated; General Electric Company; Konarka Technologies, Inc.; MEMC Corporation; and Solarmer Energy Inc. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.; Moser Baer India Ltd.; Thermax Ltd.;

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Berkeley study finds clean vehicle rebates have predominantly benefited wealthy, white Californians

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Researchers Dana Rubin and Evelyne St-Louis, two recent graduates of the University of California, Berkeley’s master’s program in city and regional planning, analyzed 98,901 rebates issued to Californians buying or leasing low-emission vehicles from the inception of the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project in 2010 through March 2015.

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How To Make Sure EV Infrastructure Is Energy Efficient

EV Connect

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What are the costs of all the raw materials required to produce the batteries used in these vehicles, both in terms of mining and production resources and in pollution from those processes? There’s also the question of emissions and the long-term environmental effects of driving. Here, too, electric vehicles excel.

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Study links air pollution to increased emergency department visits for heart and lung disease

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NOVEMBER 11, 2018

cities including Atlanta, GA; Birmingham, AL; Dallas, TX; Pittsburgh, PA; St. While most past studies were conducted on a single-city level, this study looked at pollution across five cities: Atlanta, Birmingham, Dallas, Pittsburgh, and St. We estimated associations between twelve ambient air pollutants of both primary (e.g.

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California gas vehicle ban faces pushback from 17 states

Study links PM2.5 pollution to increased risk of diabetes; even low levels pose risk

Modeling study suggests 1.8M excess deaths attributable to urban air pollution in 2019

WUSTL study finds use of air conditioning reduces in-car pollution

Study: no one knows which city has the highest concentration of PM2.5

Next 10 report says widespread EV adoption in California could deliver significant economic benefits to the state by 2030 and 2050

DOE Investing Up to $78M Investment in Two Consortia Targeting Algae-Based and Biomass-Based Bio-Hydrocarbon Fuels and Infrastructure; $1.6M for Ethanol Blends Fueling Infrastructure

Inorganic mercury converted to more toxic and bio-accumulative monomethylmercury in ocean waters, possibly by microbes

US DOE announces 3 consortia for $125M US-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center; solar, second-generation biofuels and buildings

Berkeley study finds clean vehicle rebates have predominantly benefited wealthy, white Californians

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Study links air pollution to increased emergency department visits for heart and lung disease

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