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APRIL 2, 2013

As part of its environmental strategy, the Port of Seattle will require all heavy-duty trucks serving the Port to meet the equivalent of 2007 engine emission standards by the end of 2017. Approximately 2,000 trucks currently service the Port of Seattle; many of them do not meet this standard. grams per brake horsepower-hour.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

The funds will be used to retrofit and replace old, polluting diesel vehicles and equipment, including school buses, heavy-duty trucks, tractors and port equipment. SCAQMD received $719,500 to replace an older 2007 Tier 2 locomotive at the Port of Long Beach with a new Tier 4 diesel locomotive.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

The eventual CTI rulemaking will establish new, more stringent emission standards for NO x and other pollutants for highway heavy-duty engines. This action follows on the petitions from more than 20 organizations, including state and local air agencies, to revise and promulgate more stringent NO x standards.

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AUGUST 21, 2015

The Summary will be the synopsis and final publication from the program to characterize the emissions and assess the health effects of new-technology diesel exhaust (NTDE) from heavy-duty diesel engines that meet the 2007 and 2010 regulations enacted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 22, 2014

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the Second Integrated Urban Air Toxics Report to Congress—the final of two reports required under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to inform Congress of progress in reducing public health risks from urban air toxics (also referred to as hazardous air pollutants or HAPs).

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APRIL 2, 2010

The footprint-based standard CO 2 curves for cars (left) and trucks (right). Each manufacturer will have its own fleet-wide standard which reflects the vehicles it chooses it produce. EPA is also setting standards to cap tailpipe nitrous oxide (N 2 O) and methane (CH 4 ) emissions at 0.010 and 0.030 grams per mile, respectively.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

The first peer-reviewed study to directly quantify how emissions from oil and natural gas (O&NG) activities influence summertime tropospheric ozone (O 3 ) pollution in the Colorado Front Range confirms that chemical vapors from oil and gas activities are a significant contributor to the region’s chronic ozone problem.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

exhaust from heavy-duty diesel engines meeting EPA 2007 and later emissions requirements—has found no evidence of carcinogenic lung tumors. The study exposed laboratory rats 80 hours a week, for up to 30 months, to emissions from a heavy-duty diesel engine meeting 2007 US EPA standards using new filters and other control technology.

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MARCH 27, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for CO 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new power plants. based standard of 1,000 pounds of CO 2 per megawatt?hour year average of CO 2 emissions to meet the proposed standard, rather than meeting the annual standard each year.

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APRIL 29, 2011

The American Lung Association released its annual report on air quality, State of the Air 2011 , which includes lists of the nation’s most polluted metropolitan areas. million people—live in areas with levels of ozone and/or particle pollution that are often dangerous to breathe. Bakersfield, Calif.

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OCTOBER 9, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is designating 31 areas across the country as not meeting the agency’s daily standards for fine particle air pollution (PM 2.5), or particulate matter. Using the 2006 to 2008 data, 91 US counties that were identified as nonattainment in December 2008 are now meeting the standards.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Rush Truck Centers and SACE will determine select used trucks to be retrofitted, and buyers will also have the option of choosing to retrofit a pre-2007 vehicle from other trucks in inventory at the dealer’s locations. About 8 million are exposed to air quality that violates the federal standards for particulate matter.

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APRIL 1, 2009

Among the direct transportation-related provisions in the extensive package are a low-carbon fuel standard for all transportation fuels; financial support for large scale demonstrations of electric vehicles; and financial support for automakers retooling plants to make electric vehicles. trucks, construction machines, ships and planes.

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MARCH 6, 2018

China remains the main engine of demand growth, but more stringent policies to curb air pollution will slow growth. In the United States, fuel-economy standards for passenger cars will curb gasoline demand with growth coming from the petrochemical sector, which is thriving thanks to low-cost ethane.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Under the original “Sustainable Zoom-Zoom” vision announced in 2007, Mazda has endeavored to offer both driving pleasure and environmental and safety performance. Earlier post.). Yamasaki, Y., Umahashi, S., Uesugi, Y.,

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JANUARY 23, 2012

million barrels per day in 2007 to 5.5 Emissions per capita fall by an average of 1% per year from 2005 to 2035, as growth in demand for transportation fuels is moderated by higher energy prices and Federal fuel economy standards. quadrillion Btu in 2007, grows from 98.2 million barrels per day in 2010. quadrillion Btu in 2035.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Andrea Catania and Alessandro Ferrari at the Poliotecnico di Torino have developed a new fuel injection system (FIS) concept that does away with the rail from the high-pressure circuit of standard common rail (CR) injection systems, replacing it with a new hydraulic layout for high-pressure fuel injection. doi: 10.4271/2007-01-1258.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

The statute passed by Congress in 2007 states that fuels can’t be approved for the market that could cause any failures. Yet, E-15 has been shown to adversely affect engines in non-road products and later model year vehicles, cause emission failures and increase air pollution due to misfueling, the group says. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 25, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a Request for Proposals ( EPA-OAR-OTAQ-12-05 ) with up to $20 million in FY 2012 grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing pollution from the existing fleet of diesel engines. 2007 model year or newer heavy-duty engine. drayage vehicles.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

EPA’s final findings respond to the 2007 US Supreme Court decision that GHGs fit within the Clean Air Act definition of air pollutants. EPA’s proposed GHG standards for light-duty vehicles would reduce GHG emissions by nearly 950 million metric tons and conserve 1.8 Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

Thai Eco-car policy, outlined by the Thailand Board of Investment in 2007, became effective 1 October and is designed to help Thailand cross the 2-million unit per year production mark through the support of “Eco cars” as another “Product Champion” category. 94 and Reg. 95 respectively.

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APRIL 19, 2012

For Greater London, where PM concentrations are the highest and exceed EU standards, they estimated that non-UK EU emissions account for 30% of the 3,200 air quality-related deaths per year. Approximately half of those who died on UK roads in 2007 were under 40, implying a loss of life of ?35 billion)—0.4–3.5% Yim and Steven R.

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MARCH 24, 2009

In April 2007, the Supreme Court concluded in Massachusetts v. Should EPA find that new motor vehicle GHG emissions meet the endangerment test, section 202(a)(1) of the CAA requires the Agency to set motor vehicle standards applicable to emissions of GHGs.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grant program was authorized as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to fund retrofits and replacements of the oldest, most polluting diesel engines, complementing the stringent emissions standards on new diesel engines that EPA promulgated in 2007.

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JANUARY 4, 2018

Before that, Chris was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, and helped win the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. Anderson has been developing self-driving technology for the better part of the last decade, starting with the creation of MIT’s Intelligent Co-Pilot in 2007. He has a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon.

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JANUARY 15, 2012

Current 2010 USEPA emissions standards for NO x and PM are set at 0.20 The team used a MY 2007 Volvo MD11 engine compliant with USEPA 2007 emissions standards. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. g/bhp-hr and 0.01 g/bhp-hr, respectively. The study by Thiruvengadam et al.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

About a third of the airborne lead particles collected at two sites in the San Francisco Bay Area came from Asia, a finding that underscores the far-flung impacts of air pollution and heralds a new way to learn more about its journey across vast distances. One site was on Mt. Tamalpais, in Marin County. Samples were taken to beamline 10.3.1

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

Both pollutants are particularly harmful to children, the elderly and those who have preexisting health problems. Because of significant mitigation measures put in place over the last two years, risk levels around major rail yards have already been reduced by about 37 percent. NO x helps create ground-level ozone, or smog.

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will pinpoint 31 areas across the country that are not meeting its daily standards for fine particle air pollution (PM 2.5) The areas have been designated as “non-attainment” because their 2006-2008 air quality monitoring data shows they did not meet the agency’s health-based standards.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Fertilizer applied to cornfields in the central US—including states such as Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin—is the primary source of nitrogen pollution in the Mississippi River system, which drains into the Gulf of Mexico. Earlier post.). In some cases, decomposition of algae consumes much of the oxygen in the water. Earlier post.).

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MAY 4, 2009

The original 1975 standards applied to hydrocarbons (HC), one of the two most important contributors to smog, and carbon monoxide (CO), a toxic air pollutant. The original HC standards ranged from 5.0 These new standards applied to 1988 model year and later bikes and could be met on a corporate average basis.

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JULY 10, 2011

During the flexible price period, an overall cap will be placed on Australia’s annual greenhouse gas emissions from all sources of pollution covered by the carbon price. Economists and experts agree that the best way is to make polluters pay by putting a price on carbon. the trading scheme. Australia Clean Energy Future website.

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MARCH 30, 2011

While properly engineered conversion systems can reduce or at least not increase emissions, poorly designed systems can lead to much more pollution. MY 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and < useful life mileage. MY 2010, 2011, 2012 and < useful life mileage. Exhaust, Evap, and OBD testing. Certification application.

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APRIL 12, 2011

Significant progress has been made in reducing emissions of criteria pollutant emissions from locomotive engines below the Low-Emitting Locomotive level (4.0 However, the Tier 4 standards will not go into effect for new locomotives until 2015. g NO x /bhp-hr and 0.1 g/bhp-hr PM), or below. g NO x /bhp-hr and 0.1

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Standard enhancements such as an upper door seal, elliptical-shaped mirrors, sloped hood, bumper with integrated air deflector and integrated antennas all minimize drag. With 412,000 units sold since the launch of the first Cascadia in 2007 the Cascadia is the best-selling Class 8 truck in the NAFTA region. Earlier post.)

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MAY 9, 2010

The strategy builds on the existing 2007 strategy to reduce CO 2 emissions from passenger cars and light-duty commercial vehicles, and complements ongoing and planned activities to decarbonize transport and to reduce their environmental impacts. Standardization. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

The proposed standards would require substantial environmental improvements from new vehicles and would put Canadian GHG emission standards at par with US national standards and, by 2016, with the California standards. Bob Oliver, Executive Director of Canadian environmental NGO Pollution Probe. Earlier post.)

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