Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Like the United States, China has become among the world’s largest importers of oil, gas and coal. One chapter is devoted to international comparisons, allowing users a quick way to see how the nature of energy and economic activities differs from country to country. Compared to 2005-2006, it has probably doubled its presence.

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2024

As I exited Harry Reid International Airport on a bright March afternoon, my hand flew up to protect my eyes, which had grown accustomed to the dull light of a long, gray Tennessee winter. The DarkSky Approved Lodging program is another step forward in the nonprofit’s history of advocacy for the reduction of light pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

New research by a team from the US, China and Japan focusing on the Houston, Texas area suggests that widespread urban development alters weather patterns in a way that can make it easier for pollutants to accumulate during warm summer weather instead of being blown out to sea. ““The very existence of the Houston area favors stagnation.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). The researchers included a sixth pollutant, ammonia (NH 3 ).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2016

In the United States, freight hauling by truck accounts for more than 15% of our oil use, and nearly 60% in China. The program will address cost-effective measures to improve on-road freight efficiency of medium- and heavy-duty trucks by greater than 50% compared to today’s vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2012

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners have launched a new initiative that aims to reduce pollution levels, improve resource efficiency and reduce infrastructure costs in cities across the world. In such a rapidly urbanizing world, cities are increasingly becoming the focus of international sustainability efforts.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Leading international efforts for GHG emission reductions and adaptation. In the United States, emissions of HFCs are expected to nearly triple by 2030, and double from current levels of 1.5% Since 1990, methane emissions in the United States have decreased by 8%. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

from automobiles, environmental pollution, depletion of fossil fuels, etc. It takes really long to form fossil fuels They are air pollutants – Combustion of fossil fuels emits greenhouse gases causes air pollution Global warming – as a result of greenhouse gas emission, atmospheric temperature increases ( how? ).

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Blink Charging

APRIL 21, 2022

In this celebration, we acknowledge the future of green technology is not only healthier for the planet and its residents, but more high-tech than more archaic, higher polluting options. These green tech solutions suitable replacements for pollution-creating solutions. Earth Day and Green Tech. than gas-fueled vehicles. .

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

A team at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has released a paper assessing technical barriers to the use of higher blends of ethanol. Theoretically, cars operating on higher ethanol blends than the design point could emit greater concentrations of pollutants in exhaust gas. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

By PluginIndia In this article and video, we show the real truth on how Petrol and Diesel vehicles cause far more air pollution compared to electric vehicles. Some even say that it pollutes even more than a diesel or petrol burning car. Refining oil takes a huge amount of energy and generates even more pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2009

In a 2007 study, Winebrake and James Corbett from the University of Delaware (who is a co-author of the current study) concluded that pollution from marine shipping causes approximately 60,000 premature cardiopulmonary and lung cancer deaths around the world each year. Where fuel sulfur content is reduced globally to 0.5% Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

EPA estimates that fuel switching will result in reducing local air pollution and its burden on public health by producing more than a 95% reduction in sulfur dioxide (SOx) and an 85 percent reduction in fine particulate matter (PM). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

Consequently, soot’s effect on climate change has not been adequately addressed in national and international global warming legislation. Soot’s contribution, however, could be reduced by 90% years with aggressive national and international policies. ”. Decreasing soot could have a rapid effect, Jacobson said.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2012

Bromine then reacts with a gaseous form of mercury, turning it into a pollutant that falls to Earth’s surface. Despite ozone’s beneficial role blocking harmful radiation in the stratosphere, ground-level ozone is a harmful pollutant. Bromine also can remove ozone from the lowest layer of the atmosphere, the troposphere.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Wanser: We start from the point of view of public safety, which is a concept in international environmental law and environmental law in the United States. by spewing pollution into the air. The largest blue bar is the effect of pollution particles on clouds. [[The Humanity is already reducing global warming.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

Some offset projects may provide further benefits, such as: (a) the promotion of sustainable development; (b) improvements in air or water quality; (c) the creation of new domestic and international economic opportunities; and (d) the incentivization of innovation as parties seek new methods of generating offsets. nonpermanence).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2009

The US and Canada have submitted a proposal to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for the designation of an Emission Control area (ECA) around their coastlines in which stringent international emission controls would apply to ocean-going ships. Earlier post.). US Ports and non-attainment areas. Source: EPA.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The regulation harmonizes with international standards (the amendments to Annex VI to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, MARPOL) and will lead to significant air quality improvements throughout the country. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) million in 2020, increasing to $47.4

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

The main obstacles will be regulatory and, especially, environmental: Supersonic airliners could be hugely more polluting than their subsonic counterparts. government established a Supersonic Transport Advisory Committee, which began discussions with international partners about building a supersonic airliner.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2009

Meanwhile our long term drought, now its its third year with no end in sight, means less available water to fight the fires with. And this summer it also means we’re experiencing mandatory water rationing that restricts our landscape watering to two days a week and forces other cutbacks in water use across the board.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2009

If the world is to decisively deal with climate change, every source of emissions and every option for reducing these should be scientifically evaluated and brought to the international community’s attention—that should include all the colors of carbon including now blue carbon linked with the seas and oceans. Wider Benefits.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

The fifth and final session of negotiations on the establishment of an international mercury convention—International Negotiating Committee on Mercury (INC5)—is taking place this coming week in Geneva. Anthropogenic releases of mercury to water total 1000 tonnes at a minimum.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

Separately, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its own report exploring the potential for a “golden age” of gas. International gas trade continues to grow in scope and scale, but its economic, security and political significance is not yet adequately recognized as an important focus for US energy concerns.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

The SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) International Biofuels Project, has published the full proceedings of its Rapid Assessment workshop on the environmental effects of biofuel technologies, 22-25 September 2008. SCOPE is part of the International Council for Science. Menichetti and Otto.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

According to the market-analysis firm Point Carbon, if a cap-and-trade system is instituted in the United States, the demand for carbon credits could explode into a $2 to $3 trillion market. Donovan is an engineer and attorney with more than thirty-four years of international business experience. CONCLUSION. About the Author.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

At the same time, however, we can already measure solid improvements in productivity and innovation: Since February 2020, some 60 percent of firms in the United Kingdom and in Spain have adopted new digital technologies, and 40 percent of U.K. New businesses came into being at a faster rate in the United States than in previous years.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

After decades of stagnation and decline, the United States has re-emerged as a low-cost location for chemicals production thanks to the shale gas revolution, and is now home to around 40% of the global ethane-based petrochemical production capacity. Petrochemicals are rapidly becoming the largest driver of global oil demand.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2016

The Draft Action Plan puts forward a single shared vision to improve the efficiency of California’s freight system while reducing its pollution, while continuing to bolster the competitiveness of California’s goods movement system nationally and internationally.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

From an official point of view, COP 15 is to be informed by the most recent report from the UNFCCC’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), published in 2007. That is what matters, and that matters to the whole world ” [ 7 ]. Climate Change And The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2018

and criteria pollutant (smog) emissions were estimated for the Zero-V based on a complete “well-to-waves” (WTW) analysis. The situation is dramatically improved using renewable hydrogen, such as that made from biogas, or by water electrolysis using wind or low-carbon nuclear power. The annual WTW CO 2 (eq.) Gigagrams (Gg) of CO 2 (eq.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2017

Vehicle tailpipes are a more important source of ammonia’s contribution to urban air pollution than is agriculture, according to a study by researchers from the US and China. The paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Wallace and Hu Jun Leong of Rice University; M. and Tong Zhu of Peking University.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

In a guest editorial in Fortune , Grove writes that just as how power and efficiency of the internal-combustion engine were at the coreof the development of the automobile, batteries willbe a competitive advantage for the automakers of the future. Add our RSS Feed to your favorite feed reader. automakers. automakers.

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Electric Vehicles India

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Electric vehicles have attracted the attention of India’s policy makers as clean technology alternatives due to their multiple advantages like higher efficiency and lower air pollution in short to medium term and reduced CO2 emissions. million units combined sold in the passenger and commercial vehicles categories. India sold 1.18

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

He was formerly with the University of Wisconsin and Rockwell International, and holds a Ph.D. The potential is enormous because the current grid has sufficient energy capacity to supply every vehicle in the United States if every one of them was a PHEV. More often, however, we are filling a bucket or a glass of water.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

Recent research cited by the EPI suggests that around five million people die prematurely every year due to air pollution, accounting for approximately one in every ten deaths annually. The EPI uses three indicators to measure air quality: household solid fuel use; PM 2.5 average exposure, and PM 2.5 exceedance of WHO thresholds.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

That’s what happens when you start each morning reading blog’s like Joseph Romm’s Climate Progress and following the work of Dr. James Hansen and the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change. Next up was Gretchen Hardison, the Director of Climate & Air Programs for Enviornment L.A. The Green L.A.

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