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Reducing Black Carbon Emissions and Ground-Level Ozone Would Provide Immediate Benefit Against Climate Change

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2009

Reducing emissions of black carbon soot and ground-level ozone would quickly make a considerable dent in the climate change problem and would also contribute to public health and protect crop yields, according to an essay in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. Besides a danger to breathe, ozone lowers crop yields.

Climate Change

Climate Change Ozone Climate Carbon

FTA to award up to $24.9M to low- or no-emissions transit bus projects

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2014

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced the availability of $24.9 million is available for buses and $3.3 million is available for supporting facilities and related equipment. A maintenance area, as defined in section 5303, for ozone or carbon monoxide. Of that amount, $21.6 7407(d)); or.

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Emissions Ozone Maintenance Hydrogen

MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2013

1,000 to 21,000) deaths due to changes in ozone concentrations. 900 to 11,000) ozone-related early deaths per year. 300 to 4,000) ozone-related premature mortalities per year. 2000 (90% CI: 0–4,000) early deaths from ozone, according to the study. 53,000 (90% CI: 24,000–95,000) PM 2.5 related premature deaths and ?5,000

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MIT Emissions Ozone Power

Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2015

In 2014, Volkswagen of America announced that starting with the launch of the zero-tailpipe emissions battery-electric 2015 e-Golf ( earlier post ), it would invest in projects to offset the carbon emissions created from the e-Golf on a full lifecycle basis: production, distribution and up to approximately 36,000 miles (57,936 km) of driving.

Carbon

Carbon Personal Store Emissions

EPA report to Congress finds a strong scientific and technical foundation for mitigating black carbon emissions

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted its final Report to Congress on Black Carbon , in response to an October 2009 request from Congress to advance efforts to understand the role of black carbon (BC) in climate change. —Report to Congress on Black Carbon. Source: EPA. Click to enlarge.

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Congress EPA Carbon Emissions

World Bank to focus on reducing short-lived climate pollutants; transport projects

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

A new report prepared by the World Bank at the request of the G8 identifies ways that the World Bank can do more through its projects to reduce the emission of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs): black carbon, methane, tropospheric ozone, and fluorinated gases known as HFCs. Black carbon Climate Change Emissions'

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CSIRO publishes Southern Hemisphere GHG data online

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

The atmospheric level of carbon dioxide, which is the most important long-lived greenhouse gas influenced by human activities, is at its highest level in more than a million years. The graphs we’ve made available online will enable people to examine the evidence about the major driver of recent climate change. per cent each year.

Ozone

Ozone Climate Change Carbon Mariner

Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change; The Fast Action Climate Agenda

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Cutting HFCs, black carbon, tropospheric ozone, and methane can buy us about 40 years before we approach the dangerous threshold of 2°C warming. —co-author HFCs are powerful greenhouse gases originally developed as substitutes for ozone-depleting chemicals. Black Carbon. From Molina et al. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Pollution Ozone

Calif. ARB releases GHG scoping plan update; more ZEVs, “LEV IV”, MD and HD regulations; ZEV for trucks; more LCFS

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings. Background. —Draft Scoping Plan Update.

Transportation

Transportation Emissions California Ozone

Pollution plumes in Paris air are richer in gaseous aromatic compounds than in LA; gasoline engines main source of VOCs

Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2013

Volatile organic compounds (VOC), which include hydrocarbons, are major air pollutants as well as precursors of harmful compounds such as tropospheric ozone and secondary organic aerosols. compounds containing 2-12 carbon atoms) are mainly produced by automobiles, a conclusion in line with previous findings.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Pollution Gasoline Engine

Aclima partnering with Google to map outdoor air quality with Street View vehicles

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

Google Street View cars can be equipped with Aclima’s mobile sensing platform to measure nitrogen dioxide; nitric oxide; ozone; carbon monoxide; carbon dioxide; methane; black carbon; particulate matter; and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). More interactive mapping results are available at insights.aclima.io.

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Google San Francisco Denver Vehicles

California ARB and NOAA Collaborating in $20M Research on Interaction of Air Pollution and Climate Change; One Atmosphere Approach

Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

These connections arise because in many cases the agents of concern are the same, and in many cases the sources of the agents are the same or intimately connected.For example, surface ozone is both an air pollutant and a greenhouse gas. The complex roles that ozone and aerosols play in the atmosphere provide examples of such trade-offs.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Pollution California

IPCC: GHG emissions accelerating despite mitigation efforts; major institutional and technological change required to keep the heat down

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2014

Decomposition of the decadal change in total global CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion by four driving factors; population, income (GDP) per capita, energy intensity of GDP and carbon intensity of energy. giga tonne carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO 2 eq) (2.2%) per year from 2000 to 2010 compared to 0.4 Click to enlarge.

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Emissions Climate Change 2000 Climate

Study estimates ~4M children worldwide develop asthma each year because of NO2 air pollution

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

NO 2 is just one component of air pollution, which is made up of many pollutants (including particulate matter, ozone, carbon monoxide), which are known to have numerous adverse effects on health. The researchers estimate that most children lived in areas below the current WHO guideline of 21 parts per billion for annual average NO 2.

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Climate Expert: Don't Call It Geoengineering

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

But it's also a way of indicating that there is hope and possibility in navigating the dangerous part of the climate change situation. Spectrum : When you talk about climate interventions, are you including carbon removal and sequestration in that category? Spectrum : Where are these three parts of the world? Which is good.

Climate

Climate Climate Change Mariner Pollution

EPA proposes stringent new emissions standards for light-, medium-, heavy-duty vehicles for MY 2027 and beyond

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2023

EPA is not reopening its averaging, banking, and trading provisions, which continue to be a central part of its fleet average standards compliance program and which help manufacturers to employ a wide range of compliance paths. EPA is also proposing to sunset the off-cycle credits program for both light and medium-duty vehicles.

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EPA Light Standards Emissions

Study finds global rivers and streams emitting 3x IPCC estimates of the GHG N2O

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change and stratospheric ozone destruction. Human activities, including fossil fuel combustion and intensive agriculture, have increased the availability of nitrogen in the environment.

New Hampshire

New Hampshire Global Climate Change Ozone

Study Highlights the Importance of Considering Climate Effects of Non-CO2 Emissions from Transport in Mitigation Strategies and Policies

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

The on-road transportation (ORT) and power generation (PG) sectors are major contributors to CO 2 emissions and a host of short-lived radiatively-active air pollutants, including tropospheric ozone and fine aerosol particles, that exert complex influences on global climate. Unger et al. Click to enlarge.

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Climate Emissions Transportation Climate Change

HEI ACES study of lifetime animal exposure to New Technology Diesel Engine exhaust finds no lung cancer

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2015

In their extensive analysis of the physical and chemical composition of the emissions, McDonald and colleagues found that the most abundant pollutants were carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, NO, and NO 2. HEI’s evaluation of the four studies was conducted by a specially convened ACES Review Panel.

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Exhaust Diesel Engine 2007

National Research Council report finds it unlikely the US will meet cellulosic biofuel mandates absent major innovation or a change in policies

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In 2005, Congress enacted the Renewable Fuel Standard as part of the Energy Policy Act (EPAct) and amended it in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA). Such land conversion may disrupt any future potential for storing carbon in biomass and soil. Economic effects.

Renewable

Renewable Tax Credit Conversion Standards

NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 reaches orbit

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2014

At 2:56 AM PST today, NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) was successfully launched into orbit from Space Complex 2 West at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base, riding on a two-stage Delta II 7320-10 launch vehicle. by Jack Rosebro. This measurement is unique like a fingerprint, and can be used for identification.

Carbon

Carbon Aura Solar Climate Change

Royal Society Report Concludes Geoengineering and its Consequences May be the Price for Failure to Act on Climate Change; Recommendations for Plan B

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Unless emissions of carbon dioxide can be greatly reduced—i.e., The report assesses the two main kinds of geoengineering techniques: Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and Solar Radiation Management (SRM). However, there are some serious questions over adverse effects, particularly depletion of stratospheric ozone.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Price International

WHO links 7 million premature deaths annually to air pollution; 12.5% of total global deaths

Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

Estimates of people’s exposure to outdoor air pollution in different parts of the world were formulated through a new global data mapping. The major components of PM are sulfate, nitrates, ammonia, sodium chloride, black carbon, mineral dust and water. Ozone is a major factor in asthma morbidity and mortality. g/m 3 8-hour mean.

Pollution

Pollution Global Ozone Coal

Berkeley study identifies diesel as main source of vehicular secondary organic aerosols

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

As part of the work, they also presented what they called “ the most comprehensive chemical speciation of diesel fuel to date ” with more than 90% mass closure as part of an overall assessment of gasoline and diesel fuel.) Previous work has shown nontailpipe emissions account for ?30% 1 for gasoline and 0.86 ± 0.25

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Diesel Los Angeles Exhaust Gasoline

SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

SCOPE is part of the International Council for Science. Biofuels based on low input cultivation of non-food crops offers promise in developing countries as a source of energy, in part because energy use is often very low at present. However very few studies include water use impacts. Menichetti and Otto. Ravindranath et al.

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Conversion Water Emissions 2009

UK Government consultation on plans to simplify public EV chargers

Green Charging

MARCH 5, 2021

Besides fuel cost savings, you might want to purchase an EV because of its low carbon footprint. EVs don’t emit any harmful pollutants to the environment like soot, hydrocarbons, lead, ozone, carbon monoxide, or volatile organic compounds. These types of chargers offer the availability to switch out the cable types.

Charging

Charging Purchase Installation Personal

Scientists at Climate Talks Call for New Assessment of Nitrogen and Climate

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2009

In October, team of climate scientists from eight US national labs and academic institutions successfully incorporated the nitrogen cycle into global simulations for climate change for the first time, questioning previous assumptions regarding carbon feedback and potentially helping to refine model forecasts about global warming.

Climate

Climate Climate Change United Kingdom Ozone

National Academies Report Examines Hidden Cost of Energy Production and Use in US; Estimates $120B in 2005

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

The committee that wrote the report focused on monetizing the damage of major air pollutants—sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone, and particulate matter—on human health, grain crops and timber yields, buildings, and recreation. Most vehicle and fuel combinations had similar levels of greenhouse gas emissions in 2005.

2005

2005 Cost Of Energy Coal

EV Driven

Reducing Black Carbon Emissions and Ground-Level Ozone Would Provide Immediate Benefit Against Climate Change

FTA to award up to $24.9M to low- or no-emissions transit bus projects

MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

EPA report to Congress finds a strong scientific and technical foundation for mitigating black carbon emissions

World Bank to focus on reducing short-lived climate pollutants; transport projects

CSIRO publishes Southern Hemisphere GHG data online

Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change; The Fast Action Climate Agenda

Calif. ARB releases GHG scoping plan update; more ZEVs, “LEV IV”, MD and HD regulations; ZEV for trucks; more LCFS

Pollution plumes in Paris air are richer in gaseous aromatic compounds than in LA; gasoline engines main source of VOCs

Aclima partnering with Google to map outdoor air quality with Street View vehicles

California ARB and NOAA Collaborating in $20M Research on Interaction of Air Pollution and Climate Change; One Atmosphere Approach

IPCC: GHG emissions accelerating despite mitigation efforts; major institutional and technological change required to keep the heat down

Study estimates ~4M children worldwide develop asthma each year because of NO2 air pollution

Climate Expert: Don't Call It Geoengineering

EPA proposes stringent new emissions standards for light-, medium-, heavy-duty vehicles for MY 2027 and beyond

Study finds global rivers and streams emitting 3x IPCC estimates of the GHG N2O

Study Highlights the Importance of Considering Climate Effects of Non-CO2 Emissions from Transport in Mitigation Strategies and Policies

HEI ACES study of lifetime animal exposure to New Technology Diesel Engine exhaust finds no lung cancer

National Research Council report finds it unlikely the US will meet cellulosic biofuel mandates absent major innovation or a change in policies

NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 reaches orbit

Royal Society Report Concludes Geoengineering and its Consequences May be the Price for Failure to Act on Climate Change; Recommendations for Plan B

WHO links 7 million premature deaths annually to air pollution; 12.5% of total global deaths

Berkeley study identifies diesel as main source of vehicular secondary organic aerosols

SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

UK Government consultation on plans to simplify public EV chargers

Scientists at Climate Talks Call for New Assessment of Nitrogen and Climate

National Academies Report Examines Hidden Cost of Energy Production and Use in US; Estimates $120B in 2005

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