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AUGUST 5, 2019

According to a study commissioned by the Washington, DC-based Propane Education & Research Council (PERC), NO x emissions measured from propane autogas school buses were substantially lower than those measured from diesel school buses. For the stop-and-go route, NO x emissions were 34 times higher for the diesel school bus.

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JUNE 16, 2021

Rio Tinto has partnered with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to study whether hydrogen can replace natural gas in alumina refineries to reduce emissions. This study will investigate a potential technology that can contribute to the decarbonization of the Australian alumina industry. Rio Tinto will conduct a $1.2-million

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MARCH 11, 2022

At the International Engine Congress in Baden-Baden (Germany), Liebherr-Components AG and US-based Tula Technology presented the results of their joint study on heavy machinery. For this study, Liebherr Machines Bulle SA provided its D966 engine that operates in a variety of applications, such as mobile or maritime cranes and wheel loaders.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

Electric cars may be nearing a tipping point for mass adoption in the United States, according to a new Ipsos study. Interest in EVs has tripled since 2018, with over a third of U.S. consumers now willing to consider an EV, according to the study.

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

million in 2018. Shared scooter trips were added to the NACTO study in 2018. million shared scooter trips in 2018, representing 46% of the 84 million shared micromobility trips taken last year. 2018, April 2019. There were 38.5

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Americans collectively spent $388 billion on gasoline in 2018, averaging to 34 million fill-ups a day. The study found that respondents categorized gasoline as a household expenditure that is more important than other major expenses such as healthcare and savings/emergency funds, only behind groceries, housing/rent, and utilities.

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JULY 14, 2023

July 2018 Landsat image of the Serra Norte complex of the Carajás Mine. —Vale’s Director of Energy, Ludmila Nascimento Vale and Wabtec will work together on a study to use ammonia as a clean alternative fuel, which does not emit CO 2. The two companies will carry out the study in a laboratory over the next two years.

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JUNE 21, 2021

A Henry Ford Health System study published in The Laryngoscope shows that head and neck injuries caused by use of e-scooters have been on the rise since rideshare systems were introduced to the public in late 2017. The study found that head and neck injuries made up nearly 28% of the total e-scooter related injuries reported.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

At the IAA 2018, MAN Truck & Bus is presenting the MAN CitE 15-tonne electric truck concept, designed specifically for city cargo traffic. Using this agile approach, the MAN CitE could thus be implemented in a period of only 18 months and finally presented ready to drive at the IAA 2018.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

increase in the miles cars travel for ride-hailing passengers in Denver’s metro area, according to a study published this week in the journal Transportation by researchers at the University of Colorado Denver. For this study, the conservative (lower end) percentage of deadheading miles from ride-hailing is 40.8%. Marshall, W.E.

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AAA's study examined various repair scenarios, like front-end collisions and windshield replacements, to deduce the costs involved in fixing these sensors. The study found that radar sensors and cameras damaged in front-end collisions incurred the highest repair costs. percent of the total repair cost.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Now, a study by researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) has found that energy sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) behaves more like miscanthus in the way it efficiently captures light and uses water to produce abundant biomass. Moore, C.E., von Haden, A.C., Burnham, M.B.,

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JUNE 29, 2020

However, weather also has an influence on NO 2 concentrations, according to a study by the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), which evaluated the influence of weather conditions on nitrogen dioxide concentrations in Saxony 2015 to 2018 on behalf of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology (LfULG).

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APRIL 14, 2021

a leader in propulsion efficiency, announced at SAE International’s WCX the results of their collaborative study on the effectiveness of Tula’s diesel Dynamic Skip Fire (dDSF) in reducing nitrogen oxides (NO x ) and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions on a Cummins X15 HD Efficiency Series diesel engine. Cummins Inc. and Tula Technology, Inc.,

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OCTOBER 20, 2018

A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that deaths related to air pollution in the US were nearly halved between 1990 and 2010. The open-access study is published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. —Jason West, study co-author. Zhang et al. Hogrefe, C.,

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JULY 28, 2021

Now, oceanographers at MIT, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and elsewhere have carried out an experiment at sea for the first time to study the turbulent sediment plume that mining vessels would potentially release back into the ocean. Earlier post.). There is a lot of speculation about [deep-sea-mining’s] environmental impact.

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JUNE 27, 2022

A study by a team of researchers from the US, Germany and Canada has found that sustainable aviation jet fuels show up to a 70% reduction in particle mass emission compared to a fossil fuel.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

However, studies on air pollution which do not take into account traffic noise tend to overestimate the long-term effect of air pollution on heart attacks, according to a study conducted by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. Our study showed that transportation noise increases the risk for a heart attack by 2.0

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AUGUST 8, 2019

Findings of a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) and published in the European Respiratory Journal suggest that a significant proportion of childhood asthma cases may be attributable to outdoor air pollution, and that these cases could be prevented. Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

A study by researchers at The Ohio State University suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic had varying effects on demand for public transit in US cities. The open-access study is published in the journal PLOS ONE. Many of the people with physical jobs who continued to use public transit were Hispanic, the study showed.

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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. —study leader Steven Barrett, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Initial findings from a world-first study of the impact of 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on both engines of a commercial jet have provided promising early results, according to the participants. In 2015, DLR performed the ECLIF1 campaign, investigating alternative fuels with its Falcon and A320 ATRA research aircraft.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In a cohort study of a subset of 2050 newborns from the Children’s Health Study in southern California, researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) found that an increase of 2 standard deviations in prenatal exposure to particulate matter in air pollution was associated with higher newborn total thyroxine (TT4) measures.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Long-term exposure to ambient air pollutants, especially O 3 (ozone), is significantly associated with increasing emphysema, according to a new study led by the University of Washington, Columbia University and the University at Buffalo. The annual averages of ozone levels in study areas were between about 10 and 25 ppb.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Prior studies have shown that air pollution impacts lung and heart health, but only a few studies have looked at how air pollution might affect sleep. Martha Billings, lead study author and associate professor of medicine at the University of Washington. —Billings et al. g/m 3 ) increase in yearly PM 2.5 exposure; and.

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DECEMBER 23, 2018

A 2015 study found a 138% risk of increase of AD per increase of 4.34 ?g/m The study by heightens concerns over the evolving and relentless Alzheimer’s pathology observed in young Metropolitan Mexico City (MMC) urbanites. This study focused on studying 507 CSF normal samples from children, teens and young adults average age 12.8±6.7

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JULY 6, 2021

Europe’s demand for biodiesel for cars and trucks has likely wiped out forests the size of the Netherlands since the introduction of the EU’s green fuels law in 2010, according to a new study by Transport & Environment (T&E). The updated REDII, adopted in 2018, plots a path away from palm oil.

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JUNE 8, 2022

Rio Tinto and the Salzgitter Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work together towards carbon-free steelmaking by studying optimization of Rio Tinto’s high-quality Canadian and Australian iron ore products for use in Salzgitter’s SALCOS (SAlzgitter Low CO 2 -Steelmaking) green steel project in Germany. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

The researchers from the University of Otago, Wellington and Victoria University studied the impact of new cycling and walking paths built in New Plymouth and Hastings in 2011. It is the first study internationally to demonstrate that investing in cycle paths and walkways leads to a reduction in emissions.

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MARCH 17, 2020

A new open-access study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that motor vehicle crashes involving drivers with blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) below the legal limit of 0.08% accounted for 15% of alcohol-involved crash deaths in the United States. In 2018, Utah became the first state to do so.

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JANUARY 25, 2020

in model year 2008 to 51% in model year 2018. Consequently, GDI engines emit larger amounts of BC compared to PFI engines, as has been confirmed by several laboratory studies. The market share of GDI-equipped vehicles increased from 2.3% The EPA projects 93% of vehicles in the U.S. will be equipped with GDI engines by 2025.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This brief study analyzes, for each individual state, the changes from 2018 to 2020 in the use of coal (one of the two most polluting energy sources) to generate electricity. This study is an update of a study that examined the changes from 2008 to 2018. Proportional amount of emissions relative to hydro.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

Under current policies, home energy storage systems would also often increase carbon emissions, according to a study by a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. The study modeled deployment across a wide range of regions, utilities and battery operation modes.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

Furthermore, the number of ships equipped with scrubbers have tripled since the study was carried out. —Ida-Maja Hassellöv, Professor and researcher at the Division of Maritime Studies at Chalmers. —lead author Erik Ytreberg, Associate Professor and researcher at the Division of Maritime Studies at Chalmers.

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OCTOBER 6, 2018

A study led by environmental health scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health examined the release of vapors from gasoline station vent pipes, and found benzene emissions were 10 times higher than estimates used in setback regulations that determine how close schools, playgrounds, and parks can be to the facilities.

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MARCH 1, 2019

The study is published in the journal Human Factors. Newton (2018) “Driver Vigilance in Automated Vehicles: Effects of Demands on Hazard Detection Performance” Human Factors doi: 10.1177/0018720818802095. The researchers examined the behavior of 60 licensed drivers operating an automated car in a simulator. —Grenlee et al.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

Their study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Ozone is the main ingredient in smog and has been studied since it began choking cities in the US in the early 1950s. levels continue to fall, ozone will continue worsening,said Ke Li, a postdoctoral fellow at SEAS and first author of the study.

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