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Obama climate plan calls for new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018; cleaner fuels and investment in advanced fossil energy

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Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Earlier post.). Other efforts will include: Natural Gas. Energy Efficiency.

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Study associates in-utero exposure to PM2.5 pollution with higher blood pressure in childhood

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microns or less (PM 2.5 ) is a form of air pollution produced by motor vehicles and the burning of oil, coal and biomass, and has been shown to enter the circulatory system and negatively affect human health. Appel and Xiaobin Wang (2018) “Maternal Exposure to Ambient Particulate Matter ? Fine particulate matter of 2.5

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Study links breathing in black carbon from polluted air to alterations in lung blood vessels

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The researchers say the main contributors to black carbon levels in the cities of developed countries are diesel-fueled vehicles, oil furnaces and coal power plants, and worldwide the major sources of black carbon are from wood burning stoves, forest fires and forest clearing. —Dr Aaron. Aaron, Eric A. Hoffman, Steven M.

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

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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. percent per year over four years for a total reduction of ten percent by 2018.

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