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OCTOBER 24, 2013

These carriers have been tested and verified, through the SmartWay Assessment Tool, as carriers that continually reduce fuel consumption and lower emissions. Toyota’s logistics partners are committed to investing in enhanced new equipment and industry best practices in order to maintain their SmartWay certification.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s SmartWay Excellence Awards have recognized 43 truck carriers and one barge carrier as industry leaders in supply chain environmental and energy efficiency. EPA announced the awardees at the 2016 American Trucking Association’s Annual Management Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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APRIL 16, 2015

US GHG emissions by sector, 1990-2013. Total US greenhouse emissions were 6,673 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2013, an increase of 2% (127.9 over the prior year, according to the EPA’s newly published Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990–2013. Total US emissions have increased by 5.9%

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MARCH 7, 2018

California’s ultra-low NO x emissions standard is 0.02 The project team, led by CALSTART, includes a heavy-duty truck manufacturer as well as Achates Power and leading suppliers in the powertrain and emissions industry. grams per brake horsepower-hour (g/bhp/hr). Zermeno, R.,

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FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The Partnership is a collaboration between the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the freight industry, designed to significantly reduce greenhouse gases and air pollution. DHL Global Forwarding is the third business division of Deutsche Post DHL after Global Mail and Express that joins the EPA SmartWay Transport Partnership.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

Delphi Automotive has joined the SmartWay Transport Partnership , a collaboration between the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and transport industry designed to reduce greenhouse gases and air pollution.

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

The study evaluated the rate of hospitalizations for acute coronary syndrome (ACS); acute heart failure (AHF); malignant ventricular arrhythmias (MVA); and atrial fibrillation (AF) and the average daily concentrations of PM 10 in Brescia over the period 2004-2007. Emissions Health' Resources.

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JANUARY 7, 2012

Geographical distributions of global BC emissions from motor vehicles in 1976 (A) and 2006 (B). Researchers at Peking University have developed a new methodology to model black carbon (BC) emissions from diesel and gasoline motor vehicles. An earlier global BC emission inventory by Bond et al. Credit: ACS, Wang et al.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Ozone pollution near Earth’s surface is one of the main ingredients of summertime smog. These observations may also assist air quality managers in assessing the most effective approaches to emission reduction programs that will improve air quality. Credits: NASA’s Earth Observatory /Josh Stevens. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 22, 2010

To protect public health, we need to take cost-effective measures to slash greenhouse gases now and continue to ratchet down all sources of smog-forming emissions and harmful soot and particles. Our study reveals that climate change and regional air pollution are intertwined problems. Tags: Climate Change Emissions.

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JULY 9, 2014

Livestock were the single largest source of methane gas emissions in the United States in 2004, releasing 70% more into the atmosphere than the oil and gas industry as estimated by other inventories, according to a new study by a team from Harvard University, JPL/CalTech and UC Irvine. emission inventory used as a priori.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

The measurements provide the most detailed look at carbon emissions for a specific urbanized and industrialized region of China to date. The combustion of outmoded industrial processes can fall somewhere in the middle. —co-author J.

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MAY 4, 2009

The measure is targeted at reducing tampering with the emissions control systems, which can result in higher emissions. ARB estimates that motorcycles produce up to 15 times the emissions per mile as the average new car or light-duty truck. g/km HC+NO x , compared to the 2004 Tier I standard of 1.4 Background.

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JULY 11, 2011

Stage I VRS apply to the gasoline distribution industry; Stage II to service stations. Vapor emissions from refueling, if allowed to escape, can contribute significantly to ground-level ozone, sometimes called smog, as well as to other types of harmful air pollution. Stage II Vapor Recovery Systems Issues Paper (EPA, 2004).

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The complexity of new and future vehicles—driven by the need for increasing fuel efficiency and decreasing emissions with ever-changing drive-cycle demands and environmental conditions—is adding unprecedented flexibility in design and driving the need for better simulation and more powerful computers, observed Dr. Robert M.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

More than 150 leading marine scientists from 26 countries are calling for immediate action by policymakers to reduce CO 2 emissions sharply so as to avoid widespread and severe damage to marine ecosystems from increasing ocean acidification—the “other CO2 problem”. units since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Source: ACECRC.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

California will meet its 2030 climate targets more than three decades late, in 2061, and could be more than 100 years late in meeting its 2050 target if the average rate of emissions reductions from the past year hold steady, according to a new study tracking more than a decade of environmental and economic indicators in the state.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% ” [ 1 ].

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APRIL 29, 2009

Dr. Heywood recently co-authored a study called “On The Road in 2035—Reducing Petroleum Consumption and GHG Emissions.”. Winner of the 2004 Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning. Longer Term Green House Gas emissions reductions. Organized by Shane Chang at Honda Research Institute USA Inc., Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica.

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JUNE 14, 2012

will receive $2,210,000 for an outreach and marketing campaign to accelerate California market acceptance and use of alternative fuels and new efficient low-carbon vehicle technologies that reduce petroleum dependence and greenhouse gas emissions. The ethanol will be mixed with conventional gasoline for a lower-carbon, less-polluting fuel.

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

Vehicle manufacturers are struggling to find cost effective ways to improve fuel efficiency by just a few percent points, but this combination has the potential to dramatically exceed that number and be a major advance for the industry. Hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide emissions after the oxidation catalyst were very low.

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JANUARY 22, 2009

After all, the primary goal of their Berkeley startup company, 3Prong Power, is to curb greenhouse gas emissions. But a powerful state agency is poised to put 3Prong Power out of business and deal a severe blow to a promising new industry.

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JUNE 30, 2013

The study, carried out through a partnership with EPA, the US Department of Energy, the Li-ion battery industry, and academicians, was the first life-cycle assessment to bring together and to use data directly provided by Li-ion battery suppliers, manufacturers, and recyclers. A recent Abt Associates, Inc.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. By partnering with these two industries. By partnering with these two industries. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ).

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. Reductions in Emissions. C to 2 °C above pre-Industrial Revolution levels.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

Most residents (66%) support the 2006 California law (AB 32) that requires greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020. However, Californians across party lines favor the requirement that automakers reduce emissions from new cars (90% Democrats, 81% independents, 55% Republicans).

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