2000, Ozone and Transportation

California 2017 GHG inventory shows 1.2% total drop from 2016; transportation sector emissions up 1%

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AUGUST 14, 2019

Changes in emissions by Scoping Plan sector between 2000 and 2017. The transportation sector remains the largest source of GHG emissions in the state, and saw a 1% increase in emissions in 2017. The transportation sector represents tailpipe emissions from on-road vehicles and direct emissions from other off-road mobile sources.

2017

2017 2016 Transportation Emissions

Study: 2/3 of aviation climate impact due to emissions other than CO2

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Net warming from NO x emissions is a sum over warming (short-term ozone increase) and cooling (decreases in methane and stratospheric water vapor, and a long-term decrease in ozone) terms. These contributions involve a large number of chemical, microphysical, transport and, radiative processes in the global atmosphere.

Climate

Climate Emissions CO2 Climate Change

Study finds rising temperatures increase risk of unhealthy ozone levels absent sharp cuts in precursors

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MAY 5, 2014

Ozone pollution across the continental United States will become far more difficult to keep in check as temperatures rise, according to new work led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Ozone formation. Even short periods of unhealthy ozone levels can cause local death rates to rise. Scenario A2 and RCP 8.5.

Ozone

Ozone Climate Change Pollution Climate

Reducing Black Carbon Emissions and Ground-Level Ozone Would Provide Immediate Benefit Against Climate Change

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AUGUST 21, 2009

Reducing emissions of black carbon soot and ground-level ozone would quickly make a considerable dent in the climate change problem and would also contribute to public health and protect crop yields, according to an essay in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. Besides a danger to breathe, ozone lowers crop yields.

Climate Change

Climate Change Ozone Climate Carbon

UN report projects that increasing use of HFCs likely to have a significant climate impact by 2050; equivalent to current total annual emissions from transport

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The decrease in CO 2 equivalent emissions of ODSs (ozone-depleting substances: CFCs, halons, HCFCs, and others) may be offset by the projected increase in their non-ozone depleting substitutes (HFCs) (lines designated as HFC scenarios). W m -2 relative to 2000. Climate and the Ozone Layer. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge.

Climate

Climate Ozone Emissions Transportation

Latest GHG Inventory shows California remains below 2020 emissions target; much steeper rate of GHG reductions required

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

The data shows a slight increase in overall emissions from the previous year, and a slight decline in emissions from transportation, which is the state’s main source of both GHGs and air pollutants. Transportation emissions declined 1.5 Source: California Air Resources Board (ARB). tons per person to 10.7

2020

2020 California Emissions 2018

MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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AUGUST 29, 2013

Annual average concentrations of fine particulates from US sources of combustion emissions from (a) electric power generation; (b) industry; (c) commercial and residential sources; (d) road transportation; (e) marine transportation; (f) rail transportation; (g) sum of all combustion sources; (h) all sources. Source: MIT.

MIT

MIT Emissions Ozone Power

PSI team develops web tool for consumers to compare environmental impact of passenger cars in detail

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MAY 17, 2020

Deterioration of the ozone layer [kg CFC-11-eq.]. The user also selects the country where the vehicles are to be used—because this differentiates the electricity mix for electric cars—as well as the year, between 2000 and 2050, when the cars will be registered. Depletion of fossil energy resources [kg oil-eq.].

Mariner

Mariner Climate Change DC Cars

Study Finds On-Road Transportation Sector the Greatest Net Contributor to Atmospheric Warming Now and in Mid-Term; Power Sector Takes the Lead by 2050

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Radiative forcing due to perpetual constant year 2000 emissions grouped by sector for 2020 (left) and 2100 (right) showing the contribution from each species. Targeting on-road transportation is a win-win-win. The net sum of total radiative forcing is indicated by the title of each bar. From Unger et al., Click to enlarge. Unger et al.

Transportation

Transportation Climate Change Power Powered

EEA report finds most Europeans in cities still exposed to levels of air pollution exceeding WHO guidelines

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

20 % of stations registered concentrations above the EU ozone (O 3 ) target value for the protection of human health. The percentage of the EU-28 urban population exposed to O 3 levels exceeding the WHO AQG value was 96% in 2017—showing scarcely any fluctuation since 2000.

Pollution

Pollution Estonia Ozone 2017

Houston-Galveston area to deploy 30 battery-electric delivery trucks

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AUGUST 31, 2013

The Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) has partnered with the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) and Smith Electric Vehicles Corporation (Smith Electric) to reduce vehicle emissions from delivery trucks in the Houston-Galveston region. Each Smith Newton will be delivered with an electric vehicle charging station (EVSE).

Houston

Houston Batteries Battery Ozone

IPCC: GHG emissions accelerating despite mitigation efforts; major institutional and technological change required to keep the heat down

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APRIL 13, 2014

giga tonne carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO 2 eq) (2.2%) per year from 2000 to 2010 compared to 0.4 GtCO 2 eq (1.3%) per year from 1970 to 2000. Total anthropogenic GHG emissions were the highest in human history from 2000 to 2010 and reached 49 (±4.5) Transport sector. GtCO 2 eq/yr in 2010.

Emissions

Emissions Climate Change 2000 Climate

Study Finds Traveling by Car Increases Global Temperatures More than Traveling by Plane In the Long Term

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AUGUST 4, 2010

Temperature change per transport work by mode for various years after the emissions: per passenger kilometer for passenger travel (left) and per ton-kilometer for freight transport (right). Global average values for the year 2000. Bars represent 1 SD. Credit: ACS, Borken-Kleefeld et al. Click to enlarge.

Global

Global Climate Change Climate 2000

HEI: 95%+ of world’s population live in areas of unhealthy air

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APRIL 18, 2018

Ozone, another important component of outdoor air pollution, whose levels are on the rise around the world, contributed to 234,000 deaths from chronic lung disease. Population-weighted seasonal average ozone concentrations in 2016. was industrial coal; transportation followed as a close second. Transportation was a distant 7 th.

Pollution

Pollution Coal 2016 India

US NOx Cap and Trade Program Lowers Smog Levels in Eastern United States

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

The existing US NO x cap-and-trade program lowered 2008 summertime NO x emissions from power plants and large industrial sources 62% compared to year 2000 levels and 75% lower than in 1990, according to a report released by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). State level ozone emissions in the NBP, from 1990 to 2010 (projected).

United States

United States District of Columbia Ozone 2008

Critical review finds actual measurement data on segments of natural gas lifecycle sparse or lacking

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JULY 8, 2014

Between 2000 and 2011, the number of producing gas wells in the US increased by 50%, reaching 514,637. processing, transport, end-use) as conventional natural gas, and the atmospheric impacts are indistinguishable between the two forms. Once out of the ground, however, unconventional natural gas is subject to the same fate (e.g.,

Gas

Gas Oil-Sands Emissions Oil

The New Supersonic Boom

Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

The Soviet Union's Tupolev TU-144, which could fly just as fast and had been used to transport mail and freight the previous year, began carrying passengers in 1977. government established a Supersonic Transport Advisory Committee, which began discussions with international partners about building a supersonic airliner.

Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City Ozone Oklahoma Fuel

California Air Resources Board posts revised draft of strategy to reduce “Super Pollutants”

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

California has already cut anthropogenic black carbon emissions by more than 90% since the 1960s, and existing measures are projected to cut mobile source emissions by 75% and total anthropogenic emissions by nearly 60% between 2000 and 2020. The SLCP Strategy is due to come before the Board for consideration in March 2017.

Pollution

Pollution California Emissions Climate

New study finds asthma morbidity in children is enhanced in areas with high traffic-related air pollution near the home

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APRIL 7, 2015

Research data included 11,390 emergency room visits and hospital admissions made by 7,954 children ages 0 to 18 between 2000 and 2008. and ozone in warm months, and with PM 2.5 , carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and oxides of nitrogen in the cool season. Hospital encounters for asthma were linked to PM 2.5

Pollution

Pollution California Davis Ozone

UNEP Report Calls for More Sophisticated Approach to Developing Biofuels; Limitations of Current LCA Studies

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Here, RME show advantages for primary energy and GHG, but disadvantages in terms of acidification, eutrophication and ozone depletion. World Transport Biofuel Production. World ethanol production for transport fuel tripled between 2000 and 2007 from 17 billion to more than 52 billion liters (13.7 Click to enlarge.

Ozone

Ozone Water Emissions Oil

Emissions of Air Pollutants down in EU-27

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AUGUST 22, 2009

The downward emission trend of three main pollutants which cause ground-level ozone continued in 2007: carbon monoxide (CO) fell by 57%, non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs) were down by 47% and nitrogen oxides (NO x ) have dropped 36%. EU-27 emissions of all four pollutants were lower in 2007 than in 2006.

Pollution

Pollution Emissions Czech Republic United Kingdom

ICCT report finds global implementation of advanced emissions and fuel-quality regs could cut early deaths from vehicle emissions by 75% in 2030

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Global trends in vehicle-kilometers traveled (VKT) and early deaths from vehicle-related fine particle exposure (2000–2030). A study by a team at the the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) finds that if that lag persists and present trends in vehicle activity continue, early deaths from vehicle-related PM 2.5

Emissions

Emissions Global Fuel Vehicles

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Im gonna post a couple excerpts here: Most ozone pollution is caused by motor vehicles, which account for 72% of nitrogen oxides and 52% of reactive hydrocarbons (principal components of smog). (7, 1, 2000) Sited: [link] You can google it and find it anywhere that vehicles have always placed more harmful chemicals into the air.

Recharge

Recharge Plug Electric Vehicles 2009

EV Driven

California 2017 GHG inventory shows 1.2% total drop from 2016; transportation sector emissions up 1%

Study: 2/3 of aviation climate impact due to emissions other than CO2

Study finds rising temperatures increase risk of unhealthy ozone levels absent sharp cuts in precursors

Reducing Black Carbon Emissions and Ground-Level Ozone Would Provide Immediate Benefit Against Climate Change

UN report projects that increasing use of HFCs likely to have a significant climate impact by 2050; equivalent to current total annual emissions from transport

Latest GHG Inventory shows California remains below 2020 emissions target; much steeper rate of GHG reductions required

MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

PSI team develops web tool for consumers to compare environmental impact of passenger cars in detail

Study Finds On-Road Transportation Sector the Greatest Net Contributor to Atmospheric Warming Now and in Mid-Term; Power Sector Takes the Lead by 2050

EEA report finds most Europeans in cities still exposed to levels of air pollution exceeding WHO guidelines

Houston-Galveston area to deploy 30 battery-electric delivery trucks

IPCC: GHG emissions accelerating despite mitigation efforts; major institutional and technological change required to keep the heat down

Study Finds Traveling by Car Increases Global Temperatures More than Traveling by Plane In the Long Term

HEI: 95%+ of world’s population live in areas of unhealthy air

US NOx Cap and Trade Program Lowers Smog Levels in Eastern United States

Critical review finds actual measurement data on segments of natural gas lifecycle sparse or lacking

The New Supersonic Boom

California Air Resources Board posts revised draft of strategy to reduce “Super Pollutants”

New study finds asthma morbidity in children is enhanced in areas with high traffic-related air pollution near the home

UNEP Report Calls for More Sophisticated Approach to Developing Biofuels; Limitations of Current LCA Studies

Emissions of Air Pollutants down in EU-27

ICCT report finds global implementation of advanced emissions and fuel-quality regs could cut early deaths from vehicle emissions by 75% in 2030

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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