Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2021

Air pollution monitoring by the Houston Health Department in 2019 and 2020 recorded levels of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, along the Houston Ship Channel that pose potential health risks to surrounding neighborhoods. parts per billion. parts per billion. — “Formaldehyde Air Pollution in Houston”.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2022

The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires the use of low-volatility gasoline during the summer months in order to limit the formation of ozone pollution. This action only extends the 1-psi waiver to E15 in parts of the country where it already exists for E10.

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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. —Akbar et al. degrees Celsius. —Akbar et al.

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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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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2013

The study also shows that the proportion of gaseous aromatic compounds—apart from benzene—in hydrocarbon emissions is two to three times greater in pollution plumes in Paris than in Los Angeles, even though the total quantity of hydrocarbons emitted in Los Angeles remains considerably greater than in Paris. Borbon, A., Gilman, W.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2023

The proposal retains the proven regulatory design of previous EPA standards for light-duty vehicles, but leverages advances in clean car technology to further reduce both climate pollution and smog- and soot-forming emissions. Together, the proposals would reduce oil imports by approximately 20 billion barrels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are collaborating in the $20-million CalNex research project to examine the nexus between air pollution and climate change. The complex roles that ozone and aerosols play in the atmosphere provide examples of such trade-offs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

HFCs are powerful greenhouse gases originally developed as substitutes for ozone-depleting chemicals. They are poised to become a larger part of the climate problem over the next few decades. Molina received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his path-breaking work in 1974 that sounded the alarm on ozone-depleting CFCs.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed standards to reduce harmful air pollution from oil and gas drilling operations. The VOC reductions in the proposal are expected to help reduce ozone nonattainment problems in many areas where oil and gas production occurs. Details on the hearings will be announced soon.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2022

The continual exploitation of ore reserves leads to the necessity of mining ores from deeper parts of deposits, often with increasing mineralogical complexity. We are investigating new ways of separating and depositing the arsenic as part of this project so that the environmental impact is minimized as much as possible.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

has agreed to spend more than $161 million on pollution controls, enhanced maintenance and monitoring, and improved internal management practices to resolve Clean Air Act violations at its Texas City, Texas refinery. BP Products North America Inc. The company will also pay a $12 million civil penalty.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The station, which is proposed to be fed from an existing hydrogen pipeline, will fuel port trucks and be publicly available for personal vehicles. Additional benefits of this location include the presence of an existing hydrogen pipeline that is owned by Air Products, making the fuel 100% locally sourced.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2019

As levels of ozone and fine particulate pollution (PM 2.5 ) rise, more patients end up in the ER with breathing problems, according to the largest US study of air pollution and respiratory emergency room visits of patients of all ages. In “Age-specific Associations of Ozone and PM 2.5 among children, 5.1%

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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. We've also focused on the parts of the portfolio where there are fewer people and fewer investments that are moving things forward. by spewing pollution into the air.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2010

The changes made to the statewide Voucher Incentive Program, also known as the VIP, will make funding available to a larger variety of trucks that will help owners comply early with the statewide truck and bus regulation passed in 2008. VIP is part of the state’s overall plan to cut toxic diesel emissions 85 percent by 2020.

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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. Aclima, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

The World Health Organization now estimates that in 2012 around 7 million people died—one in eight (12.5%) of total global deaths—as a result of air pollution exposure. million deaths linked to indoor air pollution and 2.6 million deaths related to outdoor air pollution—5.9 million deaths in total.

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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. Transportation. —Draft Scoping Plan Update.

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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. Unger et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

positive or negative—and magnitude of net climate forcing from BC emissions), currently available scientific and technical information provides a strong foundation for making mitigation decisions to achieve lasting benefits for public health, the environment, and climate. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2015

The Advanced Collaborative Emissions Study (ACES), released today by the Health Effects Institute (HEI), also confirmed that the concentrations of particulate matter and toxic air pollutants emitted from NTDE are more than 90% lower than emissions from traditional older diesel engines (TDE). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2014

Decision and rule making at the state and national levels in the US have been informed in part by limited, out of date, and sometimes incomplete emission inventories and self-reported industry data. They then reviewed the available literature on air quality impacts for each of the stages. jobs vs environmental stewardship).

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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). All volumes, except for volumes of biomass-based diesel, are in gallons of ethanol-equivalent. Barriers and opportunities.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

In recent years, there has been growing concern over the use of data and the potential for “data pollution," where an abundance of data storage and its subsequent use or misuse might work against the public interest. And it's already clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has sped up the arrival of the future along several dimensions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

SCOPE is part of the International Council for Science. Low-input cultivation of perennial plants, e.g. from short-rotation forestry and grasslands, may be an effective source of cellulosic biomass and provide environmental benefits (reduced pollution and lower greenhouse gas emissions). The methodology used by Searchinger et al.

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Green Car Congress

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. Click to enlarge.

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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.) —Gentner et al. For the same mass of unburned fuel emissions reacted, diesel exhaust forms 6.7 ± 2.9

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2016

As part the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection’s (MoEP’s) action plan to reduce pollution in Haifa Bay in Israel, Israel Police are actively enforcing exclusion rules that bar heavy vehicles in downtown Haifa Bay at certain times of the day. Air pollution, Haifa. —MoEP Director General Yisrael Dancziger.

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Green Charging

MARCH 5, 2021

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. These are the fastest charging options currently available for EVs. Why purchase an EV. Final take.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Neutral Big Papi @ Apr 20th 2009 10:05AM All - The end of the plug that you see is the end that plugs into the car not the part that would plug into the wall. I mean, when the electricity it uses is produces, pollution still happens, just not "right from your car"? @ Apr 20th 2009 12:34AM They just wont use different plug.

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