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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Ozone levels across much of North America and Europe dropped significantly between 2000 and 2014. A large international team produced this first surface ozone assessment report based on all available surface observations across the globe using data from more than 4,800 monitoring stations. Source: University of Leicester. Owen Cooper.

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DECEMBER 25, 2011

The FY 2011-2012 plan focused primarily on five areas of interest: sustainable communities; behavior and technology adoption; health and air pollution exposures; air pollution science; and greenhouse gas targets. These regulations have led to considerable improvements in air quality throughout California.

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APRIL 24, 2024

The grant program is funded through the Inflation Reduction Act under President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda. “In The transportation sector is the US’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and a leading source of health-harming pollution.

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DECEMBER 16, 2018

The conurbation of the metropolitan area of La Paz/El Alto is one of the fastest growing urban settlements in South America with the particularity of being located in a very complex terrain at a high altitude. results indicate that traffic is the dominating source of BC and particulate air pollution in the metropolitan area of La Paz/El Alto.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2015

While that report projected vessel activity, it did not explore the environmental impacts of increased shipping in terms of air emissions or the potential climate impacts from increases in short-lived climate pollutants such as black carbon. The emissions report focuses on the low- and mid-range diversion scenarios—i.e.,

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JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. Short-lived climate pollutants.

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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. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. Earlier post.).

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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. The development of an international hydrogen market could also accelerate adoption. —Jon Moore, CEO of BNEF. MMbtu in Russia, $8.7/MMbtu

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

At the International Workboat Show in New Orleans, classification society DNV GL gave its “Approval in Principle” to the new design. LNG (liquefied natural gas) is gaining traction in maritime circles, enabling operators to reduce emissions that are harmful to the environment and to the climate.

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MAY 26, 2022

Achates Power is backed by the Oil and Gas Climate Investments and other investors. Aramco Americas. Aramco Services Company (d/b/a Aramco Americas) is the US-based subsidiary of Aramco, a world leader in integrated energy and chemicals, which has had a presence in the US for more than 60 years.

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APRIL 4, 2012

FD stoves should be considered for dissemination as improved cookstove programs worldwide begin to consider climate metrics as selection criteria.Our results also have significant implications for health and climate impact studies, as impact estimates based on ND stoves would underestimate the BC reduction potential from ICs.

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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. —Comer et al.

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APRIL 30, 2015

issued an executive order (B-30-15) to establish a California greenhouse gas reduction target of 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most aggressive GHG reduction target enacted by any government in North America to reduce GHG emissions over the next decade and a half.

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MARCH 6, 2010

This article shows that including offsets in climate change legislation would likely make an emissions program more cost-effective by: (a) providing an incentive for non-regulated sources to generate emission reductions; and (b) expanding emission compliance opportunities for regulated entities. CREDIBILITY OF OFFSETS. 3) Measurement.

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APRIL 21, 2024

Honda 0 Saloon concept Although it’s unclear what level of emissions devices these vehicles do have on them, motorcycles and small internal-combustion engines have been in some respects a bigger problem than cars and trucks, because emissions controls for smaller engines generally aren’t as extensive as in passenger cars.

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DECEMBER 23, 2014

Mexico’s Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) has proposed new heavy-duty vehicle emissions standards, aligned with current standards in place in the rest of North America and in the European Union. And the climate benefits of the reductions in black carbon emissions are also a great step forward.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Although most countries have already revealed their opening emissions reduction proposals, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer pointed out Thursday that “ we still await clarity from industrialized nations on the provision of large-scale finance to developing countries for immediate and long-term climate action. by Jack Rosebro.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The label also puts the LEAF as best in the mid-size car class in terms of fuel economy, greenhouse gas emissions, and emissions of criteria pollutants. The label provides consumers with a tool to compare alternative-fuel vehicles to those with a traditional internal combustion engine and allows them to make an informed purchase decision.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

trillion is spent annually on transport globally, mostly in ways that exacerbate rather than solve the problems associated with traffic growth, including congestion, health-harming air pollution, accidents, energy insecurity, and climate change. Transportation is central to the social and economic activity of people across the world.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

GM employees told us at the Blazer EV drive event that they’re certainly feeling the internal pressure to get more EVs out quickly, but looking at these numbers, it seems like there must not be nearly enough pressure. So we’re here to provide a little more.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This question of whether climate change becomes so bad that we have to do something to dull its impacts and reduce human suffering is a very big one,” says Keutsch, an atmospheric chemist. For many, the mere idea of purposefully intervening in the climate system is problematic and worth shutting down before it gains traction.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Global sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions peaked in the early 1970s and decreased until 2000, with an increase in recent years due to increased emissions in China, international shipping, and developing countries in general, according to a new analysis appearing in the open access journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Credit: Smith et al.

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JUNE 6, 2013

SAS involves dozens of other domestic and international research institutions, and is one of the largest North American air quality and climate studies in decades. What are the climate-relevant properties of aerosol in the SE US? Climate Change Emissions' These goals will be fully met in the merged project.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

These investments are one reason why the International Energy Agency (IEA) in September insisted that there’s still hope to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 °C Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. C in this century. clean-tech legislation.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

percent in 2022, underlining how the hybrids are outpacing EVs in the United States of America. But the rising cost of upgrading diesel to new emission norms and the government’s view on diesel being a dirty, polluting fuel along with some states banning usage of the same has compelled some diesel buyers to opt for hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

America holds only about two percent of the world’s proven oil reserves. We have to discover and produce cleaner, renewable sources of energy with less of the carbon pollution that threatens our climate. So there’s no reason we shouldn’t be using these renewable fuels throughout America. And we have to do it quickly.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Mitigation. Schapiro, Mark, “ Conning the Climate: Inside the Carbon-Trading Shell Game ,” Harper’s Magazine (February 2010). CONCLUSION.

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JUNE 28, 2023

Her dissertation focused on developing methods to determine a baseline for concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere based on historical spatial-temporal measurements. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ’s satellites over extended areas of North America and the Gulf of Mexico. She earned her Ph.D.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

Real Life EV Stories A Case for Electricity Plug In America Positions Energy Policy Frequently Asked Questions About Plug-in Buses Who Killed the Electric Car? 3 CARB Date with Destiny Move CARB Forward Plug In America Podcasts! 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know? 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know? 4 Great Gifts! Why Am I a Member?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

In an effort to reliably predict efficiency and pollutant emissions for new engines and fuels, computer simulations are used to study fundamental turbulence-chemistry interactions. Low emission, low temperature engine concepts of the future operate in regimes where combustion is poorly understood. Stochastic processes. Neroorkar et al.

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JULY 10, 2009

The researchers concluded that models of climate change may be underestimating how much water is likely to run off the land and back into the sea as atmospheric chemistry changes. With elevated CO 2 levels, leaf pores contract and sometimes close to conserve internal water reserves. Credit: NASA. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 13, 2013

The fifth and final session of negotiations on the establishment of an international mercury convention—International Negotiating Committee on Mercury (INC5)—is taking place this coming week in Geneva. Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry.

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MAY 23, 2018

Under the proposal ( earlier post ), California transit agencies would be required to purchase 100% zero-emission buses by 2040 as they gradually phase out their dependence on buses that pollute the atmosphere. People of color in California bear the most burdens from air pollution in the state.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This project represents the largest single procurement of electric school buses in North America. The transition to electric school buses will deliver health and climate benefits for the community. Montgomery County Public Schools operates more than 200 schools and serves more than 160,000 students county-wide.

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AUGUST 9, 2012

Six shipping carriers have become the inaugural participants in the Port of Los Angeles Environmental Ship Index ( ESI ), an international clean air program that rewards ocean carriers for bringing their newest and cleanest vessels to the Port. The Port has committed $450,000 to jumpstart the program.

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MAY 4, 2012

The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners formally approved an Environmental Ship Index (ESI) program to take effect 1 July, becoming the first seaport in North America and the Pacific Rim to do so. Ship emissions are the single-largest source of air pollution from port-related operations. percent or less.

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MAY 7, 2024

Increasing electric car sales were the main reason for growth in the overall car market, which contracted by 8% for conventional (internal combustion engine) cars but grew by 5% in total, indicating that EV sales are continuing to perform as the market matures. China exported over 1.2 million in 2023, increasing by 35% relative to 2022.

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