Carbon, New Jersey and Pollution

Study found highly elevated PM2.5 in pre-COVID-19 subway air in NE US; NYC the worst

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

concentrations and particle composition from area samples collected in the subways of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; New York City, New York/New Jersey (NYC/NJ); and Washington, District of Columbia. A team led by NYU Grossman School of Medicine researchers measured real-time and gravimetric PM 2.5

New York

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3 East Coast states and DC first to participate in TCI-P cap-and-invest program for transportation

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

As part of the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI), Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Virginia have participated actively in developing the TCI-P and have the opportunity to join the program in the future.

Rhode Island

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California EV adoption driving steady decline in emissions: study

Teslarati

APRIL 7, 2024

A new study from the University of California (UC) Berkeley shows a steady, albeit modest, decline in carbon emissions with increased electric vehicle (EV) adoption over the last few years. The data shows a gradual decline in carbon dioxide emissions, representing a 1.8-percent California made up a third of all U.S.

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Nine states and DC to design regional approach to cap greenhouse gas emissions from transportation

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2018

All the participating jurisdictions are members of the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI), a regional collaboration of Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia that seeks to improve transportation, develop the clean energy economy, and reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

District of Columbia

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Two new studies of road air pollution in London find detrimental effects on over-60s and unborn babies

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Exposure to air pollution on city streets is enough to counter the beneficial health effects of exercise in adults over 60, according to new research led by Imperial College London and Duke University. Our research suggests that we might advise older adults to walk in green spaces, away from built-up areas and pollution from traffic.

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London Pollution Environment Exhaust

Exelon to electrify 30% of utility vehicle fleet by 2025; 50% by 2030

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JUNE 8, 2020

Exelon’s utilities, which serve approximately 10 million customers in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania through its Atlantic City Electric, BGE, ComEd, Delmarva Power, PECO and Pepco subsidiaries, will electrify 30% of their vehicle fleet by 2025, increasing to 50% by 2030.

Fleet

Fleet District of Columbia Vehicles New Jersey

Lung Association report highlights health and climate costs of petroleum-based transportation and the benefits of shifting to ZEVs

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Under this scenario, the estimated total health and climate change costs associated with passenger vehicle fleet pollution drops from to $37 billion annually to $15.7 Annual pollution-related impacts drop by more than 85% due to fewer lost work days caused by pollution-related illnesses, fewer asthma attacks and fewer premature deaths.

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Climate Cost Of Rhode Island Transportation

Volvo Subsidiary Terracastus to Establish JV for Production of Liquefied Biogas

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

This upgrading venture will enable NSR’s plant in Helsingborg to reduce its annual carbon emissions by 40,000 tons, compared with using diesel fuel. Biogas is a climate-neutral fuel whereby fuel produced in a plant can contribute to reducing carbon emissions by 40,000 tons per year compared to using diesel fuel. Source: Terracastus.

Volvo

Volvo New Jersey Production Diesel

Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

On a planet aspiring to become carbon neutral, the once-stalwart coal power plant is an emerging anachronism. A specific challenge would-be-conversions must face is that the NRC’s standards—both for atmospheric pollution and for the amount of radiological material a reactor can release—are much tighter than federal standards for coal plants.

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Coal Convert Power Powered

CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

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APRIL 16, 2015

Stacked bars show the change in generation cost combined with the median damages by pollutant assuming the 2010 social cost of carbon given by the Office of Management and Budget ($31 in $2010). However, this shift results in increased externality costs of health and environmental damages from increased air pollution.

Charging

Charging Coal Grid District of Columbia

California will ban new gasoline car sales

Teslarati

AUGUST 24, 2022

“The climate crisis is solvable if we focus on the big, bold steps necessary to stem the tide of carbon pollution,” Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement. The implications of CARB making these groundbreaking changes will ultimately affect other states as well. all conform to CARB’s standards.

California

California Gasoline Sale Rhode Island

Q&A with CharIN North America President: It’s all about interoperability

Charged EVs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Oleg: Well—and once again, this is the answer that I’m giving you, not as a representative of CharIN, but just as CEO of my own company—in my view, the answer is yes, because if we look at charging in general, we have to accept the fact that charging infrastructure will not be a carbon copy of ICE vehicle refueling infrastructure.

North America

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Kerry (D-Mass.)

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

EV Driven

Study found highly elevated PM2.5 in pre-COVID-19 subway air in NE US; NYC the worst

3 East Coast states and DC first to participate in TCI-P cap-and-invest program for transportation

California EV adoption driving steady decline in emissions: study

Nine states and DC to design regional approach to cap greenhouse gas emissions from transportation

Two new studies of road air pollution in London find detrimental effects on over-60s and unborn babies

Exelon to electrify 30% of utility vehicle fleet by 2025; 50% by 2030

Lung Association report highlights health and climate costs of petroleum-based transportation and the benefits of shifting to ZEVs

Volvo Subsidiary Terracastus to Establish JV for Production of Liquefied Biogas

Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

California will ban new gasoline car sales

Q&A with CharIN North America President: It’s all about interoperability

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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