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Study finds changes in air pollution due to EV adoption are not distributed equally

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In an open-access paper published in PLOS Climate , the team reports that CVRP reduced aggregate statewide emissions of CO 2 , NO x , and SO 2. Panel (a) presents statewide data and panel (b) presents a regional example, centered on the city of Los Angeles in Southern California. PLOS Climate 2(5) doi: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000183

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@LATimes Publishes Tiny Little Article On Big Climate News #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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Michael Jackson Comes Back From Dead to Blast L.A. Times Climate Change Coverage

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Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, returned from the great hereafter this morning to condemn the Los Angeles Times for being a cause of global warming and then covering it up in the newspaper he mocked as, Already more lifeless and brain dead then I am now! Even my sister Latoya knows better than that!

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Arizona State Students Develop a Solar-Powered Air Filtration System

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The students launched the initiative in 2020 after reading an article about the city’s air pollution in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Warudkar is an associate aeroelasticity engineer at Virgin Galactic , in Los Angeles. To improve air quality, burning unrefined coal for heat was banned.

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Torrance Goes All 350 for October 24, Ready to do The Amazing Waving Human Tide Line

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org International Day of Climate Action. The evening was even more meaningful for me beyond the great support and endorsement it gives our South Bay 350 Climate Action on Saturday October 24 at the Manhattan Beach Pier – since one of my environmental inspirations received a proclamation just before ours. in Los Angeles.

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Urban CO2 Domes May Enhance May Increase Ozone and PM, With Accompanying Increase in Mortality

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In modeling the health impacts for the contiguous 48 states, for California and for the Los Angeles area, he determined an increase in the death rate from air pollution for all three regions compared to what the rate would be if no local carbon dioxide were being emitted. Articles ASAP doi: 10.1021/es903018m. Mark Jacobson.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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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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