Green Car Congress
MAY 30, 2019
New York City Clean Air Taxi rules are successful in cutting emissions and reducing air pollution, [link] to a new study by researchers at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Drexel University. They also found these emission reductions were associated with decreases in concentrations of pollutants in the city’s air.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 25, 2019
Meeting standards for fine particle pollution, or PM 2.5 , is the San Joaquin Valley’s most critical air quality challenge. The San Joaquin Valley has the worst particulate matter pollution in California—and the worst in the nation for annual federal standards. The newly adopted 2018 Valley PM 2.5
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 26, 2022
Vehicles must meet strict emission standards to drive in the ULEZ area: Euro 4 for gasoline cars and vans (widely available since 2006). The ULEZ has already helped to reduce roadside pollution levels by 44% in central London and 20% in inner London. The ULEZ is a very targeted scheme to get the most polluting vehicles off the road.
Green Car Congress
MAY 17, 2019
CARB developed the program to help support a return to 1990 levels of climate-changing gases by 2020, as required by AB 32, the 2006 landmark climate bill. Those companies were required to make up for their shortfall by purchasing credits from fuel providers who had supplied cleaner fuels. California reached that overall goal in 2016.
Green Car Congress
MAY 10, 2018
It was originally developed to support a return to 1990 levels of climate-changing gases by 2020, as required by AB 32, the 2006 landmark climate bill. They were required to make up for their shortfall by purchasing credits from clean fuel providers. million metric tons of climate-changing gases. That equals an over-compliance of 9.8
Green Car Congress
MAY 9, 2015
ARB staff Staff is evaluating four potential broad elements to the Advanced Clean Transit regulation: Require Zero Emission Bus Purchases. Mandate a fraction of bus purchases to be zero emission technology starting in 2018, and set a goal of complete transit fleet transition to zero emission technologies by 2040. Source: ARB.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 12, 2013
2015) formulated by the National Development and Reform Commission of China (NDRC), coal consumption will be limited to 3900 million metric tons (MMT) by 2015, which will present a challenge given the tremendous increase in coal use within the last 5 years (2300 MMT in 2006 and 3200 MMT in 2010). Earlier post.] —Huo et al.
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