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SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

New research by scientists at King’s College London suggests that air pollution from London’s roads is improving overall but more work may be needed to tackle some sources of traffic pollution, which continue to breach limits in many parts of the city. Heavy vehicles were an important factor in urban air pollution.

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MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. Click to enlarge. —Comer et al.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

This study builds on the 2007 Environmental Assessment of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles by EPRI and NRDC ( earlier post ), which showed that plug-in hybrid electric vehicles could contribute to reductions in national greenhouse gas emissions, while also leading to improved air quality. —Mike Howard, EPRI president and CEO.

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JANUARY 12, 2013

In February 2012, the China State Council approved its first national ambient air quality standard for PM 2.5 , which will come into effect by the end of 2015. 2020),” which plans to achieve accumulated sales of 500,000 new-energy vehicles (including hybrids and EVs) by 2015, and 5 million by 2020. Earlier post.] —Huo et al.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

Cutting the amount of short-lived, climate-warming emissions such as soot and methane won’t limit global warming as much as previous studies have suggested, according to a new study from the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Md., —Smith and Mizrahi.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

Millions of used cars, vans and minibuses exported from Europe, the United States and Japan to the developing world are of poor quality, contributing significantly to air pollution and hindering efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

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AUGUST 22, 2011

Transport for London (TfL) recently announced a package of measures to tackle pollution levels at the busiest roads in central London. The start of a greening program to trap pollution—a row of 50 green towers (six foot tall planters) have been installed along Lower Thames Street, one of central London’s most polluted roads.

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MAY 7, 2013

In April, the committee had approved a draft law setting out a new CO 2 target for cars of 95 g CO 2 /km (153 g/mile) by 2020, down from 130 g CO 2 /km (209 g/mile) in 2015—a reduction of 27% from the 2015 target. Earlier post.). Super credits assign a favorable weighting to vans that emit less than 50 g/km of CO 2.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

A new study by a team from the University of Tennessee, Tsinghua University and the University of Minnesota has found that the wide-scale deployment of electric vehicles in China can increase the Environmental Justice (EJ) challenge in that country. Marshall (2015) “Environmental Justice Aspects of Exposure to PM2.5 —Ji et al.

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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., 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. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 25, 2013

The environment committee of the European Parliament approved a draft law setting out a new CO 2 target for cars of 95g CO 2 /km (153 g/mile) by 2020, down from 130 gCO 2 /km (209 g/mile) in 2015. The draft also sets indicative targets for post-2020 CO 2 emissions in the range of 68-78 g/km (109-126 g/mile) from 2025.

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APRIL 22, 2016

Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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JUNE 19, 2013

Within ECAs, the sulfur content of fuel oil (expressed in terms of % m/m – that is, by weight) must be no more than 1.00% m/m; falling to 0.10% m/m on and after 1 January 2015. But there are many variables and risks that have to be assessed and managed first, and we hope this study will contribute to this.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

million tons of coal equivalent (tce), which resulted in serious air pollution. Chinese government has implemented several transport policies to deal with this challenge and to encourage residents to change their travel behaviors to mitigate severe air pollution. In China in 2013, The transport sector consumed 348.19 billion - 501.09

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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JULY 9, 2009

or 27,000 ppm S)—according to a new study by researchers from the US and Germany, led by Dr. James Winebrake at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The study is published in the current issue of the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Requiring ships to use marine fuel with 0.1% and (c) Global 0.5. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 7, 2013

Above all, it will fulfill my aim of making London’s air cleaner. If just 14 percent of journeys in central London were cycled, emissions there of the greatest vehicle pollutant, NO x , would fall by almost a third and over the years literally thousands of lives could be saved. —Mayor Johnson.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The distribution of California’s clean vehicle rebates across different socioeconomic groups has been uneven, with higher income groups more likely to receive rebates, according to a new study by a team from the University of California, Berkeley. public transportation or car- sharing).

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JUNE 9, 2015

A team from Northwestern University, with colleagues from UOP LLC, a Honeywell Company; Universita’ degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”; Argonne National Laboratory; and Ames Laboratory has developed a new hydrogenation catalyst that is highly selective for benzene, an aromatic—and known carcinogen—that is part of conventional gasoline.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

EU regulation is striving to cut the CO2 emitted by cars to an average figure of 130 g/km by 2015. Portuguese drivers are the greenest in Europe when it comes to buying cars with an average CO2 rate of 138g/km (eg. Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Car makers can build green cars, but they need us to buy them.

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JANUARY 27, 2012

On the criteria pollutants side, LEV III reduces fleet average emissions of new passenger cars (PCs), light-duty trucks (LDTs) and medium-duty passenger vehicles (MDPVs) to. 2015 to 0.030 for all vehicle categories by 2030. The goal is to accelerate a transition already in process and to make sure it succeeds. The combined ROG+NO x.

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JULY 14, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored the six 2015 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners at a ceremony in Washington, DC. For 2015, EPA announced a new award category for a green chemistry technology that has a “Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change.”

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JULY 17, 2015

Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. The significance of this opportunity is immense.

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APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. In 2015–nearly 90% of emissions. RGGI: A Case Study. INTRODUCTION.

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