Green Car Congress
JUNE 26, 2017
A study by researchers in Greece, the UK and The Netherlands links long term exposure to aircraft noise, particularly during the night, to an increased risk of developing high blood pressure and possibly heart flutter and stroke as well. The paper is published in Occupational & Environmental Medicine. A further 18 had a heart attack.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Both are represented in the study by a major gas of each type, the VOC formaldehyde and NO 2 , that are measureable from space by the Dutch-Finnish Ozone Monitoring Instrument aboard NASA’s Aura satellite, launched in 2004.
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MAY 25, 2016
Bert Brunekreef, a professor at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, and Dr. Barbara Hoffmann, a professor of the University of Düsseldorf in Germany, described the study as “ exemplary.” The MESA Air study was funded in 2004 by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Formal requirements came long afterwards—in Europe in 2004 and in the United States in 2012. Every year we do a report on mortality rates; the safest are still Sweden, the Netherlands—and I was going to say the United Kingdom, but my country has left the EU. America has done very little ,” says Curtis.
Green Car Congress
MAY 29, 2009
The new report takes its figures from EDGAR (Emission database for global atmospheric research), a joint project between the JRC and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). EDGAR is a detailed overview of 35 years (from 1970 to 2005) of greenhouse gas emissions by country and emission sector.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 26, 2009
The declining increase in China’s emissions fits the trend since 2004, when its emissions increased by 17%. For this PBL study, emission data for 2005, per country, were used from EDGAR, a joint study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). and from 19.5
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MAY 29, 2013
In the report, the authors used on-road vehicle testing data from Spritmonitor.de (Germany); Travelcard (Netherlands); LeasePlan (Germany); Honestjohn.co.uk (United Kingdom); WhatCar? The type-approval values are the basis for consumer information, CO 2 regulation, and CO 2 -based vehicle taxation. United Kingdom); and TCS (Switzerland).
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