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JANUARY 7, 2022
billion people) are exposed to annual average levels of fine particulate matter exceeding the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline from 2005, leading to 1.8 The WHO 2005 guideline for PM 2.5 This has since been updated to the WHO 2021 guideline for PM 2.5 concentration between 2000-2019. exposure was 10 micrograms (?g)
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JULY 4, 2021
A new study focused on the auto industry finds that tightening emissions standards not only fails to curtail on-road emissions, but actually increases the likelihood of non-compliance by automakers. Economically, automakers have little financial incentive to abide by the tight emissions standards. —Hu et al.
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OCTOBER 18, 2019
The European Environment Agency’s (EEA’s) “ Air quality in Europe — 2019 report ” shows that almost all Europeans living in cities are still exposed to air pollution levels that exceed the health-based air quality guidelines (AQGs) set by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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NOVEMBER 28, 2019
They then analyzed 13 years’ worth of hospital admissions records, from 2000 to 2012, from more than 95 million inpatient hospital claims for Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older. levels were below the WHO air quality guideline. —Joel Schwartz, professor of environmental epidemiology at Harvard Chan School and senior author.
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APRIL 14, 2014
Historical Trends in Black Carbon Emissions from Surface Transportation (teragrams of black carbon per year). The transportation sector accounted for approximately 19% of global black carbon emissions in the year 2000, according to the report. —“Reducing Black Carbon Emissions from Diesel Vehicles”. Earlier post.)
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AUGUST 14, 2012
Union Pacific Railroad is investing $20 million to test new technology designed to reduce diesel emissions from freight locomotives in California. A series of 25 experimental locomotives will be based in two Union Pacific rail yards in California as part of a test of emissions-reducing technologies. Earlier post.)
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APRIL 18, 2018
Seven billion people, more than 95% of the world’s population, lived in areas exceeding the WHO Guideline for healthy air in 2016, according to a new global study. concentrations to the WHO Air Quality Guideline. Fifty-eight percent lived in areas with PM 2.5 concentrations above above the WHO Interim Target 1 (IT-1, 35 ?g/m
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