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A new report by Dr. Michael Sivak at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) shows a recent increase in the proportion of US households without a vehicle. in 2007 (the year with the lowest recent proportion). The 13 cities with the largest proportions all showed an increase from 2007 to 2012.

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JULY 8, 2012

for year 2007. A new black carbon (BC) emissions inventory from China found BC emissions levels in 2007 of 1,957 Gg BC—higher than reported in earlier studies. The paper by researchers from Peking University and Environment Canada appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 25, 2016

A major, decade-long study of thousands of Americans has now found that people living in areas with more outdoor pollution—even at lower levels common in the United States—accumulate deposits in the arteries that supply the heart faster than do people living in less polluted areas. The study is published in The Lancet.

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APRIL 28, 2022

Purdue University and Duke Energy plan to explore the feasibility of using advanced nuclear energy to meet the campus community’s long-term energy needs. A typical SC wall, from Bhardwaj and Varma (2007) Modern Steel Construction. Chiang is the executive vice president of Purdue University for strategic initiatives and the John A.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2019

The years included in the first analysis were 1983 and 2008 (the same as in our original study), and three additional years spaced three years apart (2011, 2014, and 2017). To answer that question, the second of the two present analyses examined cohort trends from 2007 to 2017 for persons aged 20 to 29 years in 2007. minus 81.7

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MARCH 19, 2019

For example, retail e-commerce sales during the fourth quarter of 2007 totaled $36.2 ATUS is an annual time-diary study by the U.S. Of interest in this study were the following three variables from ATUS related to “purchasing goods and services.”. The years analyzed were 2007 and 2017 (the latest available survey year).

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NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Replacement of up to 90% (270 Mt) of the total global consumption of plastics in 2007 with bio-based plastics is ultimately technically possible, according to new study by authors at Utrecht University, commissioned by the associations European Bioplastics and the European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence (EPNOE).

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JANUARY 24, 2018

That report, the 2016 Billion-Ton Report , volume 1, updated and expanded upon analysis in the 2011 US Billion-Ton Update ( earlier post ), which was preceded by the 2005 US Billion Ton Study ( earlier post ). South Dakota State University was the lead institution for the more than $20-million project which began in 2007.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

The issue of interest in this study is whether, despite this difference, the two countries show similar patterns of recent changes on this measure. I documented recent changes in distance traveled per person for cars and light trucks in the United States in a study published last month.). by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research.

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MAY 30, 2013

A new study by Michael Sivak, research professor at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), found that in 2011, the peak probability of buying a new vehicle per driver in the US was among those between 55 and 64 years of age—a shift from four years earlier, when that peaked with the 35-to-44-year-old age group.

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JUNE 17, 2015

A study funded by the California Air Resources Board and conducted by UC Berkeley scientist Dr. Robert Harley. Between 2009 and 2013, California's Drayage Truck Regulation led to near-universal use of DPFs (diesel particulate filters) on Port trucks. The study findings occurred over a relatively short time. 09-340.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

The first study to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of lifetime exposure to new technology diesel exhaust (NTDE)—i.e., exhaust from heavy-duty diesel engines meeting EPA 2007 and later emissions requirements—has found no evidence of carcinogenic lung tumors. Earlier post.) —ACES report.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

A recent study by an international team calculated that shipping causes a net cooling of climate across all parametrizations of the indirect aerosol effect (IAE) and scenarios throughout the period 1900? A recent study commissioned by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) estimated total emissions of 1046 Tg CO 2 yr ?1

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FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Studies by reputable research groups show that projected emissions of greenhouse gases may lead to a further warming of 1.1 The most recent was published in 2007. The 2007 report has been authored by about 44 writing teams with a total of 450 lead authors. Wim Turkenburg, Utrecht University. Nick van de Giesen, TU Delft.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

A study by researchers from the University of British Columbia and Queen’s University (Canada), has concluded that using lignocellulose materials for the production of ethanol is unlikely to be competitive with starch until 2020 at the earliest. However, cost reductions must occur across all components of the production process.

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APRIL 27, 2012

Based on visual interpretation of high-resolution (30 m) satellite images, a new study in the journal Global Change Biology: Bioenergy determined that industrial plantations covered over 3.1 These findings are echoed in a new open-access study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Kim Carlson et al., Chris Malins.

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JANUARY 6, 2010

Chevron Technology Ventures and the Institute for Energy Economics of Japan provided support for the study. “We We need to set realistic targets for ethanol in the United States instead of just throwing taxpayer money out the window”.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Based on an Armstrong & Associates market study, Amprius estimates the total battery market for UAS to be more than $10 billion and increasing to more than $30 billion by 2024.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Many previous climate sensitivity studies have looked at the past only from 1850 through today, and not fully integrated paleoclimate data, especially on a global scale. —Andreas Schmittner, Oregon State University researcher and lead author. degrees; most climate model studies use the doubling of CO 2 as a basic index.

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

Of interest in this study were the changes in distance driven per inflation-adjusted GDP (gross domestic product) since the end of the Second World War. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. by Michael Sivak.

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AUGUST 25, 2013

A study by NASA scientists and their colleagues at Dalhousie University (Canada) and NOAA based on satellite data has found a significant correlation of surface nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) with population in the three countries and one continent examined: United States (r = 0.71), Europe (r = 0.67), China (r = 0.69), and India (r = 0.59).

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The report, which covers the period between 1999 and 2007, applies the Sustainable Value approach developed by Prof. Frank Figge of Queen’s University Belfast and Dr. Tobias Hahn of Euromed Management School Marseille. Volkswagen only managed to create significantly positive Sustainable Value in 2001, 2002 and 2007.

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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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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Pollution is making Arabian Sea cyclones more intense, according to a study in the journal Nature. The Nature paper suggests that weakening winds have enabled the formation of stronger cyclones in recent years—including storms in 2007 and 2010 that were the first recorded storms to enter the Gulf of Oman. Evan, James P.

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MARCH 25, 2011

Helly, director of the Laboratory for Environmental and Earth Sciences with the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Kaufmann, associate professor of marine science and environmental studies at the University of San Diego and one of the authors of the paper.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

A 2008 study by Simon Donner of the University of British Columbia and Chris Kucharik of the University of Wisconsin concluded that ramping up the production of corn ethanol to meet the targets set by the new US Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) would worsen pollution in the Gulf of Mexico, increasing the growing hypoxic region.

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AUGUST 30, 2012

The study is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. The study is part of a larger program conducted by ARB in conjunction with UC Riverside, UC Davis and others to develop diesel formulations with higher levels of renewable biofuels. Credit: ACS, Hajbabaei et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 1, 2012

Roughly 80% of the current recovered harvest in the US would need to be re-allocated for the production of bioenergy crops to meet current renewable fuel targets with existing technology, according to a new study using satellite data led by researchers from the University of Montana.

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JANUARY 15, 2012

The study by Thiruvengadam et al. The team used a MY 2007 Volvo MD11 engine compliant with USEPA 2007 emissions standards. The fuel used in the study was Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) with sulfur concentration not exceeding 10 ppm. Credit: ACS, Thiruvengadam et al. Click to enlarge. —Thiruvengadam et al.

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JULY 28, 2009

The environmental benefit of a large-scale deployment of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) in the Canadian province of Alberta could vary significantly, ranging from a 40% to a 90% reduction in greenhouse gases, according to a study by electrical engineers at the University of Calgary’s Schulich School of Engineering.

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JULY 28, 2013

The study marks the first time that the functional roles of individual microbial populations within a consortium have been linked with specific enzyme activities—in this case cellulase and hemicellulase—said Steven Singer, director of JBEI’s microbial communities program.

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MAY 5, 2016

A new study by a team from Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering has found that even large increases in lithium prices are unlikely to increase significantly the cost of batteries or battery packs for end users such as vehicle manufactures or consumers—although some manufacturers may see reduced profit margins.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

The University of Delaware has signed the first license for its vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology with AutoPort, Inc., If the initial test is successful, and V2G vehicles are subsequently manufactured, the University would receive a royalty for each vehicle sold with V2G equipment. Components of a V2G system. Source: PJM. of Delaware).

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APRIL 3, 2009

Summers in the Arctic may be nearly ice-free in as few as 30 years or even earlier, not at the end of the century as previously expected, according to a new study by a pair of researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Washington. Credit: University of Washington / NOAA.

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AUGUST 30, 2013

Petersburg Polytechnic University in Russia in its association with that country’s space industry. The goal of Ford’s relationship with the university is to analyze space-based robotic communications systems, with potential for developing vehicle mesh networks to aid in connected vehicle communications applications. Resources.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

A study by a team from the University of Cambridge (UK) and MIT attributes ~8,000 premature mortalities per year to aircraft cruise emissions. The study was funded by the UK Research Councils with help from the US Department of Transportation. perturbation (µg/m 3 ) attributable to aviation. Credit: ACS, Barrett et al.

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APRIL 2, 2009

A pair of researchers from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space (GISS) and Columbia University have found that black carbon is responsible for 50%, or almost 1 °C of the total 1.9 °C C increased Arctic warming from 1890 to 2007. C—occurred from 1976 to 2007. According to another study published by Lenton, et al.

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