2018, Pollution and Wind

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

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FEBRUARY 15, 2020

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.

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MIT Pollution Emissions 2005

Study: traffic density, wind and air stratification influence concentrations of NO2

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JUNE 29, 2020

In connection with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, satellite measurements made headlines showing how much the air pollutant nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) had decreased in China and northern Italy. In 2018/2019, for example, various measures were taken in Germany, ranging from a reduction in the number of lanes (e.g. in Stuttgart).

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Wind Pollution 2018 2015

As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. This study is an update of a study that examined the changes from 2008 to 2018. Energy source. Proportional amount of emissions relative to hydro. Natural gas.

Coal

Coal West Virginia North Dakota Cleaner

As states use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

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APRIL 13, 2020

These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. In 2018, only two states used oil to generate more than 3% of the electricity: 68% in Hawaii and 12% in Alaska.)

Coal

Coal Cleaner Electric Vehicles Alaska

Two-year study in Canada finds large trucks disproportionately contribute to higher levels of black carbon pollution

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Researchers found that air pollution levels right beside a major trucking route within a city were close to levels seen beside Highway 401, despite the road carrying less than one-tenth of the vehicle traffic. Jonathan M. Wang, Cheol-Heon Jeong, Nathan Hilker, Kerolyn K. Shairsingh, Robert M. 8b01914.

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CMU study finds that coal retirement is needed for EVs to reduce air pollution

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In the study’s future 2018 grid scenarios that account for predicted coal plant retirements, PEVs would produce air emissions damages comparable to or slightly lower than HEVs. Life cycle emissions by pollutant and life cycle stage for each vehicle type in the recent (a) and future (b) PJM grid. Source: Weis et al.

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Coal Pollution Grid Gasoline-Electric

Study measures the effect of regional change in clouds caused by ships’ emissions; masking GHG warming

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MARCH 25, 2020

This puffy line is not just exhaust from the engine, but a change in the clouds that’s caused by small airborne particles of pollution. Satellite image taken 16 January 2018 off the coast of Europe. Pollution from ships creates lines of clouds that can stretch hundreds of miles. Michael Diamond/University of Washington.

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Emissions Pollution 2003 Climate

SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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MAY 21, 2020

The SPEG process extracts all carbon from the waste feedstock, removes all particulates and acid gases, and produces no toxins or pollution. It not only solves our air quality and climate challenges by producing pollution-free hydrogen. That’s why our partnership with SGH2 is so important. This is game-changing technology.

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Waste Hydrogen Green California

HALO research aircraft measuring the emissions of megacities in EmeRGe project

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MARCH 22, 2018

However, emissions do not just remain in conurbations; particles and gaseous pollutants can be transported thousands of kilometers by the wind. The aim is to better understand and predict the extent and impact of urban air pollution on Earth’s atmosphere. Previously, the researchers studied European conurbations from the air.

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Emissions Taiwan Asia Ozone

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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JUNE 25, 2013

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.). Reducing barriers to investment in energy efficiency.

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Obama Cleaner Climate Fuel Economy

Aerial methane survey finds a fraction of point sources responsible for more than a third of California’s methane emissions

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

From August 2016 to October 2018, NASA, through a contract with the two state agencies, flew remote sensing equipment over selected portions of the state. Some methane emissions were highly intermittent, others were affected by wind, and some were too small for accurate emission rate estimation.

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BNEF, Snam, IGU report finds global gas industry set to resume growth post-pandemic; low-carbon technologies for long-term growth

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AUGUST 7, 2020

However, the resulting low gas prices, as well as clean air and climate policies, will promote further switching to gas from other more polluting energy sources, such as oil and coal. LNG imports reached 482 billion cubic meters in 2019, up 13% from 2018, and while this figure is expected to fall by around 4.2% Source: BloombergNEF.

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Gas Global Industrial Industry

California ARB Adopts Regulation Implementing 33% Renewable Electricity Standard by 2020

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The regulation ramps up the amount of electricity from wind, solar, geothermal and other renewable sources of energy while preserving the existing authorities of the energy agencies and the grid operator. The new regulation will be one of AB 32’s largest emission-reduction strategies.

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Renewable 2020 Standards California

Alstom to build 14 Coradia iLint fuel-cell trains for LNVG

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

The trains, which will convey travellers between Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremervörde and Buxtehude from December 2021, will replace the diesel multiple units of the transport authority Elbe-Weser-Verkehrsbetriebe (evb) and will reduce the pollutant emission in daily service to zero. The companies also signed a 30-year maintenance agreement.

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Building Fuel Hydrogen Climate Protection

CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

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APRIL 16, 2015

Results from the study also suggest that with sufficient coal plant retirement and sufficient wind power, controlled charging could result in positive net benefits instead of negative. High Wind Future: In this scenario, they modified the future case to add wind plants sufficient to produce 20% of generation.

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Charging Coal Grid District of Columbia

Researchers predict average Gulf of Mexico hypoxic “dead zone” slightly above-average in Chesapeake Bay

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JUNE 25, 2014

Hypoxic (very low oxygen) and anoxic (no oxygen) zones are caused by excessive nutrient pollution, primarily from human activities such as agriculture and wastewater, which results in insufficient oxygen to support most marine life and habitats in nearbottom waters.

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Empa team develops electrohydraulically actuated cam-less valve train; up to 20% fuel savings at low load

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Natural gas, biogas and syngas generated from wind and solar power offer increased anti-knock properties, and the valve train can react flexibly to this as well. The mixture is combusted almost without pollution. engine cooling water—can be used. The required components were manufactured by Empa’s own workshop.

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Fuel Gas-Electric Exhaust Gas

California ARB releases proposed new plan to cut 2030 GHG by 40% v. 1990; more stringent LCFS, more ZEVs

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JANUARY 21, 2017

Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Reduction Strategy. By 2018, develop Integrated Natural and Working Lands Action Plan to secure California’s land base as a net carbon sink. The plan also includes the estimated range of greenhouse gas, criteria pollutant and toxic pollutant emissions reductions of each measure.

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California Cleaner Emissions Pollution

Global Carbon Project: Global carbon emissions growth slows, but hits record high

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

over 2018 emissions. —down 50% from its peak in 2005—displaced by cheaper natural gas, wind and solar power, as well as savings from energy efficiency. Billed by some as a “bridge fuel” away from more pollutive energy sources, natural gas produces significantly fewer carbon dioxide emissions than oil or coal.

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Carbon Global Emissions Climate Change

U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

Cars That Think

APRIL 19, 2022

Because mercury pollutants easily find their way into the oceans and the atmosphere, it’s virtually impossible for one country to prevent mercury poisoning within its borders. Mercury—it’s an intercontinental pollutant,” Bender says. “So Three quarters of that mercury, the researchers suggested, would eventually wind up in the oceans.

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Mercury Fusion United States IDEA

Energy storage: the key to a decarbonised future

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

We are transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, and the use of energy storage is becoming more widespread. Storage can reduce the demand for electricity from inefficient, polluting plants often located in low-income and marginalized communities. So what exactly is energy storage?

Energy Storage

Energy Storage Molten Salt Energy Future

Volkswagen inaugurates 9.5 MW solar park at Chattanooga plant in US; key element of VW Group’s strategic sustainability targets

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

The Volkswagen Group has set itself the goal of becoming the world’s leading automaker in environmental terms by 2018. There is to be a 25% improvement in the environmental compatibility of production in the Volkswagen Group by 2018—i.e., We have adopted the most comprehensive approach possible.

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Solar Phoenix 2012 Power

Next 10 report finds California must increase GHG reductions to 4.9%/year through 2030 to meet target

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

This year’s Index finds that 2018 greenhouse gas emissions—the latest year for which data are available—rose overall for the first time since 2012, driven in part by increases in the power and commercial sectors. MMTCO 2 e (+0.2%) in 2018 compared to 2017. from 2017 to 2018 due to a strong growth in real GDP.

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California 2018 2019 2017

Study: California will hit climate targets >100 years too late at current pace of reductions; transportation, wildfires & landfills

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

California has made tremendous gains cutting pollution without detrimental economic impacts. This year’s Index finds that 2017 marked the first time that a greater portion of California’s power mix came from renewable sources such as wind and solar than it did from fossil fuels. vehicles per 100 persons in 2018. five years ago.

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California Climate Transportation 2017

How to Hasten India’s Transition Away From Coal

Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2022

For instance, just 8 percent of Indian homes had air-conditioning in 2018, but that share is. cents from newer plants that have additional pollution-control equipment, the cost of solar energy has dropped to 2.7 cents per kilowatt-hour, and wind power to 3.4 percent from solar and wind power. cents per kilowatt-hour.

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Coal Energy Storage Wind India

Mercedes-Benz powering ahead with €3B strategic engine initiative; increasing electrification, 48V; diesel and gasoline; cylinder deactivation

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OCTOBER 30, 2016

With even wider application of the technology, this not only saves the company considerable sums of investment, but also reduces environmental pollution, with annual savings of around 10 million liters of water, about 10 tonnes of aluminum-containing slurry and around 900 MWh of electrical energy.

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Gasoline Mercedes Engine Diesel

ZITY car sharing launches in Madrid with 500 Renault ZOE EVs arriving this month

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Madrid has the highest rate of daily car-sharing in Europe due to the city’s size, population, traffic problems and air pollution issues. In June 2018, Madrid’s “Hyper-center” will be permanently out of bounds to ICE vehicles. ZOE is equipped with a charging cable that can accept power levels between 3kW and 22kW.

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Cars Connect Connected Pollution

ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Li-ion

What Does It Take To Win The EV Race As A Country?

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

The use of EVs aids fleets in lowering operational expenses related to maintenance and fuelling while reducing air pollution from vehicle emissions. In India, all the metropolitan cities have adopted EV buses into their public transportation fleets as Indian cities suffer the most from both air and noise pollution.

Norway

Norway Renewable Lithium Ion Gasoline-Electric

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

Green Car Congress

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. INTRODUCTION. Graham recently declared, “ Economy-wide cap-and-trade is dead. ”

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

EV Driven

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

Study: traffic density, wind and air stratification influence concentrations of NO2

As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

As states use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

Two-year study in Canada finds large trucks disproportionately contribute to higher levels of black carbon pollution

CMU study finds that coal retirement is needed for EVs to reduce air pollution

Study measures the effect of regional change in clouds caused by ships’ emissions; masking GHG warming

SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

HALO research aircraft measuring the emissions of megacities in EmeRGe project

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

Aerial methane survey finds a fraction of point sources responsible for more than a third of California’s methane emissions

BNEF, Snam, IGU report finds global gas industry set to resume growth post-pandemic; low-carbon technologies for long-term growth

California ARB Adopts Regulation Implementing 33% Renewable Electricity Standard by 2020

Alstom to build 14 Coradia iLint fuel-cell trains for LNVG

CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

Researchers predict average Gulf of Mexico hypoxic “dead zone” slightly above-average in Chesapeake Bay

Empa team develops electrohydraulically actuated cam-less valve train; up to 20% fuel savings at low load

California ARB releases proposed new plan to cut 2030 GHG by 40% v. 1990; more stringent LCFS, more ZEVs

Global Carbon Project: Global carbon emissions growth slows, but hits record high

U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

Energy storage: the key to a decarbonised future

Volkswagen inaugurates 9.5 MW solar park at Chattanooga plant in US; key element of VW Group’s strategic sustainability targets

Next 10 report finds California must increase GHG reductions to 4.9%/year through 2030 to meet target

Study: California will hit climate targets >100 years too late at current pace of reductions; transportation, wildfires & landfills

How to Hasten India’s Transition Away From Coal

Mercedes-Benz powering ahead with €3B strategic engine initiative; increasing electrification, 48V; diesel and gasoline; cylinder deactivation

ZITY car sharing launches in Madrid with 500 Renault ZOE EVs arriving this month

ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

What Does It Take To Win The EV Race As A Country?

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

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