article thumbnail

MIT study: half of US deaths related to air pollution are linked to out-of-state emissions

Green Car Congress

The study focuses on the period between 2005 and 2018 and tracks combustion emissions of various polluting compounds from various sectors, looking at every state in the contiguous United States, from season to season and year to year. They first obtained emissions data from each of seven sectors for the years 2005, 2011, and 2018.

MIT 307
article thumbnail

Regulatory & Legal Alerts – Dec. 2017

Green Car Congress

Peopletrail actively tracks the regulatory and legal environment that surrounds employment and criminal background screening. Effective January 1, 2018, California will become the tenth state to pass the “ban-the-box” law which removes the conviction history question on job applications for private employers with five or more employees.

Legal 231
article thumbnail

Mcity ABC test concept to assess driverless vehicle safety

Green Car Congress

The crash of an Uber Level-4 automated vehicle prototype in March 2018 in Arizona killed a woman as she was crossing a street, when the car’s sensors failed to detect her. Researchers are developing the ABC test concept using the Mcity Test Facility, U-M’s controlled, real-world environment for testing connected and automated vehicles.

Concept 236
article thumbnail

U Alberta study shows for the first time that sunlight causes chemical reactions in road dust; singlet oxygen

Green Car Congress

— In the study, the team study, investigated the photochemical production of 1 O 2 by size-fractionated road dust collected in Edmonton, Alberta and compared the reactivity of this substrate to that of Arizona test dust, Niger sand, and Cape Verde dust. —Sarah Styler, corresponding author. Cote, Stephanie R. Holod, Thomas H.

article thumbnail

DISCOVR project seeking high productivity algae to reduce cost of biofuels

Green Car Congress

Culture Tier II strains are being validated om PNNL’s LEAPS photobioreactors using light and temperature scripts generated by PNNL’s Biomass Assessment Tool (BAT) for Arizona testbeds. The DISCOVR project workflow. Numbers in red designate the number of strains tested at each TIER. Source: BETO peer review.Click to enlarge.

Cost Of 150
article thumbnail

TOAR shows present-day global ozone distribution and trends relevant to health; public database

Green Car Congress

Even so, during 2010-2014, people in parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, the Midwest and the Middle Atlantic still experienced more than 15 days a year in which ozone levels exceeded the US health-based air quality standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) averaged over eight hours. Malley, Owen R. Cooper, Joseph P. Schultz, Allen S.

Ozone 255
article thumbnail

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

percent per year over the next four years so that in 2018 there is a ten percent reduction from the baseline. states (Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) and four Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec). The program then reduces the cap by 2.5 Overview of RGGI.

Gas 244