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APRIL 7, 2015

Results from a new study by researchers at the University of California Irvine support a growing body of scientific literature indicating that sensitive populations, including children, certain ethnic groups and people of lower socioeconomic status, are more vulnerable to the effects of high exposures to traffic-related air pollution.

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JUNE 8, 2018

Scientists from Emory University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Air Resources Board teamed to analyze satellite data to determine the 15-year trend of PM 2.5 pollution in the state. is especially burdensome in California and accounts for the greatest percentage of health impacts attributable to air pollution.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. SCF Technologies 2008 Annual Report.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

A team led by researchers at Oregon State University has discovered novel nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (NPAH) compounds produced by combustion sources or formed in the atmosphere that are hundreds of times more mutagenic than their parent PAHs, which are known carcinogens. Staci Simonich.

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MARCH 26, 2021

It acts as a resource for those interested in CARB’s research priorities for the 2021-2024 fiscal years, informing sister agencies, universities and communities of the agency’s priorities. Reducing emissions in communities heavily burdened by pollution and environmental stressors. —CARB Research Division Chief Elizabeth Scheehle.

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MAY 25, 2010

The study examined the fuel-cycle CO 2 , SO 2 , and NO x emissions of EVs in China in both current (2008) and future (2030) periods and compared them with those of conventional gasoline vehicles and gasoline hybrids. Generation mix of the six interprovincial power grids in 2008. Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Globally, commercial ships emit almost half as much particulate matter pollutants into the air as the total amount released by the world’s cars, according to a new study led by NOAA and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Ship pollutants affect local air quality and the health of people living along coastlines.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

The GMR is the first study to assess the global performance of the transport sector and the progress made toward four main objectives: universal access, efficiency, safety, and green mobility. The GMR report focuses on two primary impacts: climate change and air and noise pollution. from 2008–2012. from 2008–2012.

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JULY 22, 2009

The study was conducted by scientists from the Columbia University Center for Children's Environmental Health. Study participants exposed to air pollution levels below the average were designated as having low exposure, while those exposed to pollution levels above the median were identified as high exposure. director of NIEHS.

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AUGUST 9, 2012

A scatter plot of CO, as a tracer for pollution, versus CO 2 , as a tracer for the amount of combustion, for 2002 and 2010. The magnitude of the drop in VOC levels was surprising, even to researchers who expected some kind of decrease resulting from California’s longtime efforts to control vehicle pollution. ppbv/ppmv to 10.7

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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. McDuffie, Peter M.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

Springtime ozone distributions for 1984, 1995–2008 in the mid-troposphere (3.0–8.0 These increases in ozone could make it more difficult for the United States to meet Clean Air Act standards for ozone pollution at ground level, according to a new international study. km), and air mass source regions. Credit: Nature, Cooper et al.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

A team of engineers from the University of Lincoln, with funding from the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), has confirmed the feasibility of aircraft regenerate braking from the landing gear to provide power for taxiing to and from airport buildings, reducing the need to use jet engines.

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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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JANUARY 27, 2015

The Advanced Collaborative Emissions Study (ACES), released today by the Health Effects Institute (HEI), also confirmed that the concentrations of particulate matter and toxic air pollutants emitted from NTDE are more than 90% lower than emissions from traditional older diesel engines (TDE). Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 27, 2009

Supplementary measurements were conducted in February, 2008. Professor Lidia Morawska, Queensland University of Technology. The study highlights why governments need to consider how they are going to deal with the air pollution levels inside the tunnel and removal of ultrafine particles in the outside environment.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Members of REVI will include San Diego County; the Cities of Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Coronado, Del Mar, Escondido, San Diego, and Solana Beach; and three regional public agencies including the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, the San Diego Air Pollution Control District, and the San Diego Unified Port District.

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AUGUST 5, 2013

Prior to the Olympic Games in 2008, Beijing was notorious as one of the world''s most polluted cities: so what would the impact be of introducing plug-in electric vehicles to its taxi fleet? The issue has been examined by researchers from the University of Michigan in the ACS journal Environmental S[.].

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MAY 18, 2009

A recent paper by a pair of researchers from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space (GISS) and Columbia University also found that black carbon is responsible for 50% of the total 1.9 °C Further, controlling soot will significantly reduce particulate air pollution deaths. The enhancement of local air pollution by urban CO 2 domes.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

Now, researchers from Sandia National Laboratory’s Combustion Research Facility, the University of Manchester and the University of Bristol report in a paper in Science the first direct kinetics measurements made of reactions of any gas-phase Criegee intermediate, in this case formaldehyde oxide (CH 2 OO). Carl Percival.

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JULY 29, 2010

Jacobson at Stanford University. Jacobson used a computer model of global climate, air pollution and weather that he developed over the last 20 years and updated to include additional atmospheric processes to analyze how soot can heat clouds, snow and ice. 2008] and methane [Schutz et al., Mark Jacobson. Dessler et al.,

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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. Nitrate output columns represent mean values and the 80% credible intervals from modeling. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved funding to advance further the development of its pioneering 42 MW peak microgrid and expand electric vehicle charging at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). million award to increase its previously awarded funding of $1,394,298 for the university’s microgrid.

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MAY 24, 2012

The ultimate goal, he says, is to exploit fully existing propulsion technologies in terms of fuel economy and pollutant emissions. maximizing fuel economy, minimizing pollutant emissions, and maximizing engine acceleration). —Malikopoulos et al.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Local drayage trucking companies are expected to assist with the demonstration over the next 12 to 18 months, and the University of California at Riverside’s College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) laboratories will help guide the data collection and analysis.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

This new maize sequence provides significant refinements over the draft sequence that was announced in February 2008, including the elimination of redundancy and improvements in the ordering and orientation of chromosomal segments. and included the University of Arizona, Iowa State University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Data gathering for the Beijing study was completed in 2008. Consequently, vehicle emissions have become an increasingly conspicuous contributor to air pollution in Chinese urban areas. Discussion Paper 2008-08, Cambridge, Mass.: Similar studies by the partners are being done in Beijing and Shanghai. Oliver, Hongyan He. “

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

According to the groups, SANDAG used a deficient process to develop a plan that will over-invests in freeways at the expense of public transit, increased pollution and exacerbated global climate change. In 2008, California accounted for approximately 7% of US greenhouse gas emissions with a total of 473.66 Earlier post.) sources (20%).

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MAY 11, 2009

They partners commissioned the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds to produce the report. The new report builds on and extends this previous work, including the final report on the ISA-UK project published by DfT in September 2008.

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OCTOBER 20, 2012

A new study led by researchers at the University of Michigan compared regulated and unregulated emissions from both light-duty passenger car (1.7 A new study led by researchers at the University of Michigan compared regulated and unregulated emissions from both light-duty passenger car (1.7 Credit: ACS, Chin et al. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 13, 2010

According to the recently finalized Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2008 , net US GHG emissions in 2008 were down 2.7% After the initial transition period, revenues go into a Universal Refund that will increase until all revenues not spent to reduce the deficit are refunded directly to consumers.

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JANUARY 17, 2015

However, the report notes, renewable energy price improvements are not universal, and costs range widely according to resources and the availability of financing. Residential solar PV systems are now as much as 70% cheaper than in 2008. real in OECD countries and China, and 10% in the rest of the world unless explicitly mentioned.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. We have to discover and produce cleaner, renewable sources of energy with less of the carbon pollution that threatens our climate. We have to find ways to boost our efficiency so that we use less oil. And we have to do it quickly. —President Obama.

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MARCH 6, 2010

A 2008 EPA study analyzed the economic impacts of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008 (S. Erosion control may reduce water pollution from non-point sources, a leading source of water pollution in US waterbodies. EPA, EPA Analysis of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008 (2008).

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Very broadly, ARB staff is making a number of major recommendation to the Board in reworking the ZEV regulation, including focusing it to address GHG emission reductions as well as criteria pollutants emission reductions. Earlier post.). Are you recommending that scenario 2 is required to meet the 80% reduction goal? —Joan Ogden.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

as compared to 1990 emissions, to be achieved between 2008 and 2012. April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., July, 2008 : The Australian government published the Garnaut Report, a comprehensive study of the effects of climate change on the country’s economy ( earlier post ).

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The study, which included more than 2,000 primary school children (aged 8-9 years) living in highly polluted areas of London’s low emission zone, confirmed that chronic exposure to common traffic-related pollutants is linked with reduced lung function. In many areas of London, air pollution still remains a major issue.

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