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Europe’s growing use of animal fats to power its cars and planes is becoming increasingly unsustainable, according to a new study by Cerulogy funded by European NGO Transport & Environment (T&E). Use of animal fat biodiesel has doubled in the past decade and is 40 times higher than it was in 2006.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Health Canada is the Canadian Federal department responsible for helping Canadians maintain and improve their health; Environment Canada is the Federal agency tasked with, among other things, protecting the environment. The majority of the mortality and morbidity benefits estimated for 2006 were associated with reductions in PM 2.5

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Having maintained its own production facilities in Asia since 2006, STUKEN, a market leader in precision deep-drawn parts, anticipates substantial growth in its South East Asia operations. This creates a favorable environment for our employees who will actively contribute to the on-site development.”

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JUNE 8, 2018

species, was recently published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. km-resolution MISR aerosol properties over Southern California,” Atmospheric Environment , Volume 181, Pages 70-81 doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.03.019. The open-access study, which focused on the four major components of PM 2.5 to predict PM 2.5 2018.03.019.

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

The equity funding of Aemetis Biogas was provided by Protair-X Americas, an environmental investment unit of Protair-X Technologies in Canada, which has extensive experience in protecting livestock farming environments. Aemetis’ senior lender, Third Eye Capital, is a major investor in Protair-X Technologies.

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JULY 10, 2017

According to the complaint, from in or about 2006 until in or about November 2015, Pamio led a team of engineers responsible for designing emissions control systems to meet emissions standards, including for nitrogen oxides (NO x ), for diesel vehicles in the US. Beginning in or about 2006, Audi was designing the new 3.0

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

Canada is far from meeting its obligations under Kyoto, and has been telegraphing since 2006 that it might withdraw. This decision formalizes what we have said since 2006 that we will not implement the Kyoto Protocol. Earlier post.). we have said, Kyoto—for Canada—is in the past.

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

Private industry and DOE’s national laboratories have already helped to reduce automotive fuel cell costs by more than 50% since 2006 and by more than 30% since 2008. These projects include: Center for Transportation and the Environment ($3 million DOE investment): Based in Atlanta, Ga.,

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

Modern piston assemblies are subject to high demands in terms of both loading and lifetime; in addition, there is the environment-friendly demand for low engine emissions. KS Kolbenschmidt has developed its LITEKS concept for particularly low-friction piston systems installed in highly loaded gasoline engines.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

SGMW has been China’s leading mini-commercial vehicle producer since 2006. It has well-established infrastructure, a favorable investment environment and a developed automotive components industry. The production base in Chongqing will give SGMW a strategic position in southern, northern and Midwestern China.

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

million automobiles of the Q family since the market launch of the first SUV in 2006. The Q5 is the global market leader in its direct competitive environment. The proportion of the company’s total production volume accounted for by SUVs will be about 28% this year, and is planned to rise to more than 35% by 2020.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Sensor fusion also is a building block in the development of semi-autonomous and fully autonomous vehicles, which are designed to maintain lane position and adapt to traffic environments. 2006) Enhanced Sensor Fusion for Car Safety Applications, SAE Technical Paper 2006-01-0598 doi: 10.4271/2006-01-0598. GM and V2X.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

2019 will see the launch in San José, Silicon Valley, of its first pilot program, with Bosch, on self-driving vehicles (Levels 4/5) in urban environments. Long a leader in active safety systems, it programmed its systems largely in-house right from the very beginning. Autonomous driving at the BMW Group.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The proposed new EU regulations, which may come into force in 2023 and will update the 2006 EU Battery Directive, seek to make all of these considerations comply with strict standards geared towards minimizing the costs to the environment.

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MAY 11, 2011

The relationship between Petrobras and Jogmec began in December 2005, when they signed a memorandum of understanding for collaboration on activities of mutual interest related to oil and gas exploration and production, health, safety and environment, and sector-related research and development projects.

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JUNE 5, 2012

The Premier of Québec, Jean Charest; the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Pierre Arcand; and the Minister of Transport Pierre Moreau unveiled the Canadian province’s 2013-2020 Action Plan on Climate Change (PACC 2020). This action plan follows the one launched in 2006 which will expire this year.

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JULY 5, 2019

2019 will see the launch in San José, Silicon Valley, of its first pilot programme, with Bosch, on self-driving vehicles (Levels 4/5) in urban environments. Long a leader in active safety systems, it programmed its systems largely in-house right from the very beginning. Automated driving at the BMW Group.

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APRIL 5, 2009

Indexed European transport sector greenhouse gas emissions, 1990-2006. The total volume measured in tonne-kilometers for EU Member States increased by 35% (650 million tonne-km) between 1996 and 2006. The number of kilometers travelled by passengers in EEA member countries grew by 1% (equivalent to 65 million kilometers) in 2006.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

2006) and Pope et al. In a paper in press in the journal Environment International , Ben Machol and Sarah Rizk quantify the economic value of health impacts associated with PM 2.5 Ben Machol, Sarah Rizk (2012) Economic value of US fossil fuel electricity health impacts, Environment International doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2012.03.003.

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JANUARY 7, 2012

Geographical distributions of global BC emissions from motor vehicles in 1976 (A) and 2006 (B). Country-based mean values are shown for 1976 and 1° × 1° resolution was used for 2006. Black carbon is a key short-lived climate change forcer ( earlier post ) and motor vehicles are important sources of BC in the environment.

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JULY 25, 2012

TEMA) received its eighth consecutive ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award for its continued leadership in protecting the environment through energy efficiency and management. Earlier this year, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. Paint booth HVAC system (Toyota Motor Mfg.,

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MAY 31, 2014

Investigators found that the battery involved in the Boston 787 fire event showed evidence not just of an internal thermal runaway but that “unintended electrical interactions occurred among the cells, the battery case, and the electrical interfaces between the battery and the airplane.”.

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JANUARY 1, 2010

Québec’s Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Line Beauchamp, announced on 29 December 2009 that the regulations on emissions of greenhouse gas emissions from light-duty vehicles—equivalent to those in force in California—will come into force in the province in mid-January 2010. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 11, 2013

Researchers from Rice University and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report in a paper in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry that particularly in Northeastern cities, ozone levels dropped even beyond what was anticipated by cutting emissions of NO x from 2002 to 2006. from 2002 to 2006. —Daniel Cohan. Cohan, Sergey L.

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MARCH 30, 2016

in 2006 to 11.4% Environ Health Perspect ; doi: 10.1289/ehp.1510810. According to Trasande, the national percentage of PTBs in the US has declined from a peak of 12.8% in 2013, but the number remains well above those of other developed countries. Moreover, he says, the decline is insufficient to meet the goal of 8.1% 1510810.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

Between 2006 and 2015, California’s GDP per capita grew by almost $5,000 per person, nearly double the growth experienced by the US as a whole. Job growth between 2006 and 2015 in California outpaced rates experienced prior to 2006, and outpaced total US employment gains by 27%. below their 2006 levels.

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AUGUST 27, 2009

The study, which appeared in the July issue of the journal Atmospheric Environment , measured ultrafine particle concentration levels outside a vehicle travelling through the 4-km, twinbore (eastbound and westbound) M5 East tunnel in Sydney. Atmospheric Environment Volume 43, Issues 22-23, Pages 3510-3519 doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.04.029.

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DECEMBER 22, 2009

The 863 Program was launched in March 1986 by the PRC’ss central government as a national strategic development program to optimize and upgrade China’s hi-tech development in the key fields of IT, biology, energy, agriculture, pharmaceutical, new material, manufacturing and automation, as well as resource and environment. Earlier post ).

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

She conducted research on radiation environments and their effects on electronic systems. In 2001 she was selected to be project manager for a NASA test bed that aimed to understand how spacecraft are affected by their environment. She wrote its space-environment specifications. She served on that panel until she retired.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Data describing emissions to air compiled from two official sources result in simulated concentrations in air, soil, water, and foliage that tend to fall close to or below the minimum measured concentrations of phenanthrene [PHE], pyrene [PYR], and benzo(a)pyrene [BaP] in the environment. Accounting for evaporative emissions (e.g.,

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

1986-2006 deforestation, in red, alongside earlier. The 2006 Stern Economic Review of Climate Change estimated , for example, that protecting forests in just eight countries could avert up to 70% of emissions from land use at an initial cost of about USD 5 billion per annum. deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 7, 2018

million in Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and California Proposition 1B Bond funds to replace fifty 40-foot New Flyer buses purchased between 2004 and 2006. Big Blue Bus (BBB), a bus operator serving Santa Monica and the Los Angeles area, will invest $18.3

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DECEMBER 1, 2018

The RFS regulations define a small refinery as one with an average crude oil input no greater than 75,000 barrels per day (bpd) crude in 2006. This intentional omission effectively cuts ethanol demand and works against the goals of the RFS program to the detriment of motorists, our environment, and Iowa’s corn farmers.

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JUNE 5, 2009

In March 2006, subsequent to the ratification of the Kyoto protocol, Japan revised its Biomass Nippon Strategy to emphasize promoting the use of biofuels for transportation. The 2006 plan set a goal to replace fossil fuels with 500,000 kl (132 million gallons US) (oil basis) of biofuels for the transportation sector by 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

The proposed revisions were based on scientific evidence about ozone and its effects on people and the environment, and resulted from a reconsideration of the primary and secondary ozone standards set at 0.075 ppm in 2008. Earlier post.) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The awards come from FY2012 funds via FTA’s National Fuel Cell Bus Program, which has provided nearly $90 million since 2006 to speed the development of fuel cell technology. Over the period of that program, fuel cell lifetimes (in transit operations) have more than doubled while costs have declined by 50%.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Data analysis was carried out at the MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health at Imperial College London and Kings College London, and the Rutgers School of Public Health in New Jersey. That should allow everyone to be able to enjoy the health benefits of physical activity in any urban environment. —Professor Chung. The unborn.

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