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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Numerous studies compiled by the Environmental Defense Fund show that in addition to harming the community, diesel school buses also “self-pollute” with emissions entering the bus cabin, to the point that “ the interior cabin of a diesel bus is five times higher ” than outside the bus.

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Fleet Pollution Diesel Ozone 123

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Widespread adoption of electric transportation, including electrification in the off-road sector, could lead to substantial reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and could modestly improve air quality, according to a new analysis released by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

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JULY 14, 2017

Tata Motors Limited and MAHLE have signed a joint development agreement for designing and developing a Secondary Loop Mobile Air Conditioning System (SL-MAC), under the aegis of United Nations Environment. The new SL-MAC system, which is testing the low-GWP refrigerants, is expected to increase vehicle energy efficiency.

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Motor Motors Motoring Vehicles 170

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JUNE 27, 2011

Ground sites maintained by the Maryland Department of the Environment form the backbone of the surface network. In the air, NASA investigators will be joined by colleagues from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Innsbruck in Austria.

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Ozone Maryland Pollution Baltimore 186

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APRIL 21, 2022

Solar Energy : The most common form of green energy, it is most often used in sunny locales such as California and Florida. Hydroelectric Energy: In common use in Washington State and California, hydroelectric power captures the energy of running water. But the sun doesn’t have to be shining to use solar energy.

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Green Energy Pollution Ozone 52

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APRIL 1, 2009

Markey of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee on Tuesday released a draft of far-reaching energy and climate legislation that targets job creation, promotes renewables and energy efficiency, and places limits on emissions of greenhouse gases. Waxman of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Chairman Edward J.

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Climate Standards Carbon California 186

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JUNE 9, 2009

Energy consumption and GHG emissions per PKT (passenger kilometer travelled). Inventorying criteria air pollutants showed that vehicle non-operational components often dominate total emissions. Life-cycle criteria air pollutant emissions are between 1.1 The vehicle operation components are shown with gray patterns.

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have built a portable pollution sensors that transmit transmit their air quality readings to smart phones, allowing users to monitor air quality in real time. Boxes represent pollution reading locations during that window. Nikzad et al. Click to enlarge. —Nikzad et al.

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Pollution San Diego Ozone 2012 236

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), entitled Climate Change Science Compendium 2009 , highlights new research that identifies some events thought likely to occur in longer-term time horizons as already happening or set to happen far sooner than had previously been thought. Earlier post.). Ecosystems.

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Climate Change Climate 2007 Ozone 259

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Alternative-fuel technology company ROUSH CleanTech has developed the first available propane autogas engine certified to California Air Resources Board’s (CARB’s) optional low oxides of nitrogen emissions standard for heavy-duty engines with 0.02 grams per brake horsepower-hour (g/bhp-hr). Earlier post.).

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Engine Cleaner Ozone Emissions 225

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MAY 3, 2016

California agency leaders released the Draft California Sustainable Freight Action Plan , an ambitious document that lays a foundation for modernizing California’s multi-billion dollar freight transportation system. Deploy more than 100,000 zero-emission vehicles/equipment and maximize near-zero by 2020.

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California Pollution Concept Transportation 150

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

The United States and California state averages shown are based on total on- and off-road use. The urban areas in California shown are for on-road fuel use only. SOAs are tiny particles that are formed in air and make up typically 40% to 60% of the aerosol mass in urban environments. Gentner et al. Click to enlarge.

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Diesel Los Angeles Exhaust Gasoline 281