Carbon Environment Neighborhood Pollution 
Green Car Congress
MAY 26, 2011
New online maps published by the European Commission and the European Environment Agency, in close cooperation with the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) of the Joint Research Centre, allow citizens to pinpoint the main diffuse sources of air pollution, such as transport and aviation. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 22, 2009
Air pollution may pose an important but largely overlooked health concern for people living near smaller regional airports, according to a new study published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Aircraft exhaust includes pollutants linked to a variety of health problems. ” Resources. Winer and Suzanne E.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 16, 2009
Highway barriers erected along roadways to block the sound and sight of traffic for the adjoining neighborhoods may also be reducing the amount of pollutants, such as soot from diesel exhaust, reaching area residents, according to a study by NOAA and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Dennis Finn. Dennis Finn, Kirk L.
Clean Fleet Report
OCTOBER 5, 2023
The practice serves as a guardian of the environment, combating the harmful effects of both abandoned vehicles and the production of new ones. It offers redemption by curtailing the release of harmful substances and reducing the carbon footprint. Non-compliance is a path best avoided.
Cars That Think
JULY 21, 2021
Where we could manage and then reduce the amount of carbon in our atmosphere? What about reducing pollution in urban and poor communities? Nonprofits are already using cheap sensors to pinpoint heat islands in cities, or neighborhoods where air pollution disproportionately affects communities of color.
Creative Greenius
MARCH 22, 2010
But it’s even better news for the health of our South Bay communities – not just for the obesity-fighting exercise that people on bicycles are going to be getting, but just as importantly, for the cleaner air we’re going to get to breathe thanks to people using pollution-free bicycle transportation instead of driving their cars.
EV Connect
AUGUST 29, 2022
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) notes that, globally, transportation accounts for 64% of oil consumption , 27% of energy use and 23% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. An investment in clean public transportation could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 0.71 gigatonnes in the next 10 years.
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