Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

Air pollution may pose an important but largely overlooked health concern for people living near smaller regional airports, according to a new study published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Aircraft exhaust includes pollutants linked to a variety of health problems. ” Resources.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Latino children who live in areas with higher levels of air pollution have a heightened risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) and published in the journal Diabetes. Our study shows air pollution also contributes to Type 2 diabetes risk.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2019

By replacing older, polluting engines with new technologies, the projects over their lifetimes are expected to prevent emission of 503 tons of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 130 tons of carbon monoxide, 238 tons of carbon dioxide, 59 tons of hydrocarbons, 30 tons of fine particulate matter, and a half-ton of coarse particulate matter.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2015

Following a competitive proposal process, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has offered $1.6 The grant will fulfill a key mandate of SB 1275, the Charge Ahead California Initiative, enacted last year to make clean transportation more widely available, particularly in low and moderate-income neighborhoods. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The Statement of Intent comes as the California Air Resources Board (ARB) holds its first meeting to consider a proposed Advanced Clean Trucks regulation that would establish sales and reporting requirements for zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. We need to design a regulatory program that gets to the heart of this problem.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Highway barriers erected along roadways to block the sound and sight of traffic for the adjoining neighborhoods may also be reducing the amount of pollutants, such as soot from diesel exhaust, reaching area residents, according to a study by NOAA and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Dennis Finn. Dennis Finn, Kirk L.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

state residents did not see the benefits of improved air quality from presumed reductions in harmful co-pollutants, such as particulate matter— according to a new study led by UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University researchers. Cushing et al. The impact on these communities could be severe and long-lasting, the authors said.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2018

The original intent of building the beltway was to enable heavy-duty vehicles to bypass the densely populated neighborhoods, and thereby ease traffic congestion in the inner-city roads. In 2010, São Paulo constructed a beltway along sparsely populated areas that are 25 kilometers away from the city center.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2016

announced that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has awarded $9.5 The grant award is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while providing clean-air benefits to California neighborhoods, with an emphasis on disadvantaged communities. GreenPower Motor Company Inc.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The World Resources Institute , a sustainability advocacy group, says at the end of the second quarter in 2023, there were just under 6,000 committed electric school buses in the United States. This number includes buses that have been awarded, ordered, delivered, or are already in operation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted a discussion document. AQIP is a mobile source incentive program that focuses on reducing criteria pollutant and diesel particulate emissions with concurrent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. million for Air Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) projects.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Art of Dismantling and Depollution: Next, we delve into dismantling and de-pollution, where hazardous materials are carefully purged. Material’s Transformational Dance: The recycling process dances through material separation and recovery, transforming aged cars into valuable resources.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

A study by a team from the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has found that the collective cancer risk from exposure to seven toxic air contaminant (TACs) has declined 76% during the period from 1990 to 2012, and linked that result from air quality regulations targeting these TACs. Estimating DPM. 5b02766.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2014

Decisions and performance oriented emission regulations have been adopted that set limits and targets resulting in the dramatic decrease in PM and other emissions; Other economic sectors are lagging behind in their initiatives, strategies and actions to address their share of PM and pollutants emissions. tuning should be warranted.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

LEED can be applied to newly designed, built, or renovated commercial buildings, homes, neighborhoods, and even entire cities. Protect and restore water resources. 5% impact natural resources. 5% impact natural resources. indoor environmental quality. Enhance individual human health. Enhance community quality of life.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 29, 2022

According to the World Bank, urban transportation is responsible for 12% to 70% of air pollution , and an estimated 7 million people die from urban air pollution each year. Many cities and countries are putting their resources into electric public transportation. These numbers aren’t merely abstract realities, either.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 13, 2022

While there is some argument in the idea that companies like Tesla are fighting the proposal since it is involved in the residential solar business, the fact remains that rooftop solar in California is growing fastest in working and middle-class neighborhoods.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

The benefits of living in a walkable neighborhood could be diminished by increased exposure to traffic-related air pollution, suggests a study led by St. million adults from 15 Ontario municipalities, challenges the notion that living in walkable neighborhoods always improves overall health and well-being. Howell et al.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

The following lists are not exhaustive or fully comprehensive, but we have tried to include a representative list of resources for each category. Plug In America makes no representations as to the workmanship, creditworthiness, or any other attributes of the companies listed or of their products or services. htm Advocates of the Th!

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

demonstrated a measurement approach to for urban air pollution mapping at 4–5 orders of magnitude greater spatial precision than possible with current central-site ambient monitoring. Air pollution varies very finely in space, and we can’t capture that variation with other existing measurement techniques. —Apte et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

The California Air Resources Board has adopted a first-in-the-world rule—the Advanced Clean Trucks ( earlier post )—requiring truck manufacturers to transition from diesel trucks and vans (Class 2b to Class 8) to electric zero-emission trucks beginning in 2024. By 2045, every new truck sold in California will be zero-emission.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

The California Air Resources Board directed its staff to take steps to provide further locomotive and rail yard emission reductions beyond those achieved by existing US Environmental Protection Agency and state regulations and agreements. Additional diesel PM reductions in 18 major CA railyards with five new locomotive measures.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Using a framework originally developed by researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Georgia Tech team estimated VMT (vehicle miles travelled) in response to three census variables: median household income, vehicle ownership, and employment rate, plus the neighborhood type classification. Brian Stone Jr.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2011

Calling the Air Resources Board’s targets for future deployment reasonable, it stresses the need for policymakers to pay particular attention to the “second wave” of consumers. It highlights the declining cost of EV technologies but also persistent market uncertainties.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2009

Our neighborhood is called the “Hollywood Riviera&# because of its beautiful hillside homes with idyllic ocean views framed by palm trees. It also means a Hobson’s choice over the most critical needs for this increasingly precious liquid resource.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Cities account for 2% of the world’s area and yet they account for 75% of the resources and 75% of the waste ,” said Cervero. A mix of technology, a mix of urban planning, really setting the stage so people can make intelligent, resourceful decisions on when to use certain modes of transportation ,” said Cervero. Bandivadekar, A.,

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Plug in America

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Another plus: no tailpipe pollution. While traditional gas motorcycles use less gasoline and thus have lower emissions than passenger cars, motorcycle exhaust is higher in smog-forming pollutants and poisonous carbon monoxide, meaning that electric motorcycles (and EVs in general) are a great option to significantly improve air quality.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

While a state law passed in 2014 requires that 10% of CVRP funds be allocated to disadvantaged communities, Rubin and St-Louis found that residents of neighborhoods with a majority Hispanic or African American population are less likely to have applied for, and therefore be benefiting from, clean vehicle rebates, even when income is held constant.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2011

As part of a Board-directed effort to provide greater transparency to interested stakeholders, the staff of the California Air Resources Board has posted production data from large- and intermediate-volume automakers beginning in model year 2009 and their Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) credit balances in 2010 on its website. Click to enlarge.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

And the work they’re doing brings California’s leading edge fight against global warming right into my neighborhood and into my home. Colleen, for instance, serves the communities of Greater Los Angeles with an emphasis in reducing toxic air pollution from the transportation sector.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2015

The researchers estimated the link between road traffic noise on these deaths and admissions, taking into account other factors such as individuals’ age and sex, as well as neighborhood characteristics such as ethnicity, smoking rate, air pollution, and socioeconomic deprivation. Halonen, Anna L. Toledano, Sean D. Beevers, H.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. It is much more than that. One PHEV company, Efficient Drivetrains Inc.,

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