Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Coal combustion alone was responsible for half of those deaths, with natural gas and oil combustion accounting for the other half. The burning of solid biofuels, such as wood for indoor heating and cooking, is another major source of PM 2.5 , accounting for an additional 740,000 deaths, especially across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 12, 2021
The energy crisis in Europe and Asia this winter is a preview of what we can expect in the years ahead. Additional layers of complexity and the uncertainty that brings is fostering an environment of pre-emptive underinvestment for oil and gas supply, where capital expenditure lags demand.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 2, 2010
About a third of the airborne lead particles collected at two sites in the San Francisco Bay Area came from Asia, a finding that underscores the far-flung impacts of air pollution and heralds a new way to learn more about its journey across vast distances. —John Christensen. Brown, Richard A. Vancuren, Steven S. Cliff, and Donald J.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 12, 2016
million deaths, 64% were in Asia, especially China and India. Between 1990 and 2013, global exposure to particulate matter air pollution increased by 20%, driven by increases in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and China. In China, burning coal is the biggest contributor to poor air quality. Of these 2.9 —Qiao Ma.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 10, 2010
Following necessary approvals, Celanese intends to construct one, and possibly two, industrial ethanol complexes in China to serve the fast-growing Asia region. The China units would utilize coal as the primary raw material. —Dave Weidman, chairman and CEO. —Dave Weidman.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 26, 2010
Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).
Green Car Congress
JULY 8, 2012
The paper by researchers from Peking University and Environment Canada appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Asia contributes more than half of global anthropogenic BC emissions and China is the largest emitter, according to the researchers. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Credit: ACS, Wang et al.
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