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Harvard/Nanjing study: China’s war on PM2.5 pollution is causing more severe ozone pollution

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JANUARY 3, 2019

Cities restricted the number of cars on the road, coal-fired power plants reduced emissions or were shuttered and replaced with natural gas. pollution is falling, harmful ground-level ozone pollution is on the rise, especially in large cities. Over the course of five years, PM 2.5 But the rapid reduction of PM 2.5 1812168116.

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Northwestern/Princeton study explores air quality impacts of aggressive conversion to EVs

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APRIL 15, 2019

coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass). Among the findings: Summer surface ozone (O 3 ) decreases in most locations due to widespread reductions of traffic NO x emissions. Summer fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) increases on average and largest in areas with increased coal-fired power generation demands. Schnell et al.

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

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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.

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NASA satellite images highlight US air quality improvement with reduction of NO2

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JUNE 27, 2014

After ten years in orbit, the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA’s Aura satellite has been in orbit sufficiently long to show that people in major US cities are breathing less nitrogen dioxide. The gas is produced primarily during the combustion of gasoline in vehicle engines and coal in power plants.

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Ozone Maryland Aura Pollution

Why Schools Should Electrify Their Bus Fleets

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Thanks to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s (IIJA), there is $5 billion available in funding for clean school buses. Reducing vehicle emissions Electric school buses, and their electric car and truck cousins, produce no tailpipe emissions, which is a big step in lowering air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Fleet Pollution Diesel Ozone

International study identifies 14 key measures to reduce methane and black carbon emissions; reduction in projected global mean warming of ~0.5 °C by 2050

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Methane is both a potent greenhouse gas and an important precursor to ground-level ozone. Ozone, a key component of smog and also a greenhouse gas, damages crops and human health. Tropospheric ozone and black carbon (BC) contribute to degraded air quality and global warming.

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Carbon Ozone Emissions International

Low-lying and other vulnerable countries calling for fast action on non-CO2 global warming pollutants

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Among the non-CO 2 pollutants are hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), methane, tropospheric ozone, and black carbon soot. Technology is already available to reduce these climate-forcing agents, and doing so would produce strong collateral benefits. Reducing tropospheric ozone can improve public health as well as agricultural productivity.

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Researchers describe the “where” and “when” of life cycle emissions from gasoline and ethanol in the US

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

60% of ground-level ozone (O 3 ) precursors, 6% of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), and 22% of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted. emissions owing to reduced coal mining activity caused by excess electricity generation in biorefineries which is sold to the electrical grid and assumed to offset electricity produced elsewhere.

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

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APRIL 13, 2014

Increased use of coal relative to other energy sources has reversed the long?standing Commercially available liquid and gaseous biofuels already provide co?benefits Between 2000 and 2010, both drivers outpaced emission reductions from improvements in energy intensity. carbon sources constitute longer term options.

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House Chairmen Waxman, Markey Release Draft of Energy and Climate Legislation; Among the Many Provisions Are Cap-and-Trade, Harmonization of CAFE and California Vehicle Regulations, and Low Carbon Fuel Standard

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APRIL 1, 2009

The bill also modifies the Clean Air Act to require the development of greenhouse gas emissions standards for all other mobile sources—e.g., The draft promotes development of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies to establish a continuing place for coal in the US energy mix. Clean Fuels and Vehicles.

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

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates, “hidden” costs of energy production and use—such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health—that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

This SAE spec would make it so you could go to a gas station and they would have the proper voltage and plug for your car. That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean. but its never even been close to the amount of garbage that gas power vehicles produce.

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Recharge Plug Electric Vehicles 2009

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Harvard/Nanjing study: China’s war on PM2.5 pollution is causing more severe ozone pollution

Northwestern/Princeton study explores air quality impacts of aggressive conversion to EVs

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

NASA satellite images highlight US air quality improvement with reduction of NO2

Why Schools Should Electrify Their Bus Fleets

International study identifies 14 key measures to reduce methane and black carbon emissions; reduction in projected global mean warming of ~0.5 °C by 2050

Low-lying and other vulnerable countries calling for fast action on non-CO2 global warming pollutants

Researchers describe the “where” and “when” of life cycle emissions from gasoline and ethanol in the US

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

House Chairmen Waxman, Markey Release Draft of Energy and Climate Legislation; Among the Many Provisions Are Cap-and-Trade, Harmonization of CAFE and California Vehicle Regulations, and Low Carbon Fuel Standard

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

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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