Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

Illustration of projected ozone changes in the South Coast region due to climate change in 2050. Areas in orange and red could see ozone concentrations elevated by 9 to 18 parts per billion. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The action finalizes parts of the SAFE Vehicles Rule that was first proposed on 2 August 2018. For its part, EPA is withdrawing the Clean Air Act preemption waiver it granted to the State of California in January 2013 as it relates to California’s GHG and ZEV programs. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Global benefits from full implementation of measures for reduction of short-lived climate pollutants in 2030 compared to the reference scenario. Such pollutants together account for approximately one-third of current global warming, have significant impacts on public health, the environment, and world food productivity. Source: UNEP.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Perhaps surprisingly, this reduction in cross-state pollution also appears to be related to electric power generation: In recent years, regulations such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Act and other changes have helped to significantly curb emissions from this sector across the country. and/or ozone. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

It would be many decades before it would slow down global warming at all, and even then it would just be making a difference around the edges. The reliance on natural gas could then gradually reduce the rate of global warming, but temperatures would drop by only a small amount compared to the 5.4 —Tom Wigley. degree Celsius).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2021

At cruising altitude, airplanes emit a steady stream of NO x into the atmosphere, where the chemicals can linger to produce ozone and fine particulates. Previous research has shown that the generation of these chemicals due to global aviation results in 16,000 premature deaths each year. increase in block fuel burn.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Global trends in vehicle-kilometers traveled (VKT) and early deaths from vehicle-related fine particle exposure (2000–2030). A study by a team at the the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) finds that if that lag persists and present trends in vehicle activity continue, early deaths from vehicle-related PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2021

This category of emissions is the largest source of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by automobiles, which are a main source of haze, ozone, and particulate matter. Helps meet global emission regulations. If fuel vapor is released into the atmosphere, it contributes to a category of pollutants known as evaporative emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2017

On the first day of a two-day board meeting—the second day of which (Friday 24 March) will consider the Advanced Clean Cars Midterm Review—the California Air Resources Board (ARB) took a number of climate and air quality actions. emissions by more than 20%. emissions by more than 20%.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

NO 2 is just one component of air pollution, which is made up of many pollutants (including particulate matter, ozone, carbon monoxide), which are known to have numerous adverse effects on health. The researchers estimate that most children lived in areas below the current WHO guideline of 21 parts per billion for annual average NO 2.

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Green Cars News

JULY 26, 2009

In the August issue of the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine , it states that exposure to ozone at levels currently deemed safe by the NAAQS clean air standards can have a significant negative effect on lung function. The research found that 6.6 hours of exposure.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

If they meet all the pledges they've made for emission reductions by 2030, global temperature rise will be at 2.4° Many people see such actions as "playing God," and worry about the unintended consequences of meddling with nature on a global scale. Humanity is already reducing global warming. Wanser: It's partly a play on words.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2018

will partner with LLNL and ANL to increase the efficiency and reduce start-up times of gas turbine combustors in a project titled “Ultra-Clean Transient Turbine Combustor”. Project will be co-funded by the Building Technologies Office and the Advanced Manufacturing Office. VAST Power Systems, Inc. Arconic Inc. Arconic Inc.

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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. By 2050, HFC emissions could equal up to 19% of global CO 2 emissions under business-as-usual scenarios. From Molina et al. Earlier post.)

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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. EPA is also proposing to sunset the off-cycle credits program for both light and medium-duty vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

Carefully choosing how we reduce greenhouse gas emissions will have the added benefit of reducing global health inequities. Smith, professor of global environmental health at UC Berkeley and principal investigator in the United States for the overall research effort. Thus, it has been called the most regressive tax in human history.

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MARCH 19, 2012

Policies incentivizing the private sector to push to develop innovative “clean” technologies are likely to play a key role in achieving climate stabilization. Respectively, Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act and the Ozone Transport Commission/NO x Budget Program.). and NO 2 regulation in the US in 1970. Taylor 2012.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

Schematic diagram of the trade-offs between the implications for regional air quality and global climate change of new policies for management of the atmosphere. The complex roles that ozone and aerosols play in the atmosphere provide examples of such trade-offs. Source: NOAA. Click to enlarge. emission inventories?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

The 100-year global warming potentials (GWPs) for methane, CO, and NO x (per Tg N) as given in the AR4 and in this study when including no aerosol response; the direct radiative effect of aerosol responses; and the direct+indirect radiative effects of aerosol responses. Source: Shindell at al. Click to enlarge. Drew Shindell.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

Despite the rapidly expanding body of scientific literature on BC, there is a need for a more comprehensive evaluation of both the magnitude of particular global and regional climate effects due to BC and the impact of emissions mixtures from different source categories. The United States contributes about 8% of the global emissions of BC.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Take, for example, the tens of thousands of fossil-fueled ships that chug across the ocean, spewing plumes of pollutants that contribute to acid rain, ozone depletion, respiratory ailments, and global warming. Over remote parts of the ocean, most CCN are of natural origin and include sea salt from crashing ocean waves.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

Radiative forcing from the global and US ORT and PG sectors. 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.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

MARPOL Annex VI sets limits on NO x and SO x emissions from ship exhaust, and prohibits deliberate emissions of ozone-depleting substances. Annex VI defines two sets of emission and fuel quality requirements: global requirements; and. more stringent requirements applicable to ships in Emission Control Areas (ECA). Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

And so if you’re worried about the problem in the next 30 or 40 years where scientists are telling us in these big global climate assessment reports that under every scenario, the Earth continues to warm, right now, we still don’t have anything that operates in that sub-30-year time scale. And that was based on observations of volcanoes.

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Green Charging

MARCH 15, 2021

Additionally, other mandates of this organisation include: • Improving low carbon transport- scientists have established that carbon is one of the global warming causes. Global warming plays a role in thinning the ozone layer, thus permitting harmful rays’ penetration to the earth.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2010

A key part of ARB’s AB 32 Scoping Plan ( earlier post ), the cap-and-trade program provides an overall limit on the emissions from sources responsible for 85% of California’s greenhouse gas emissions. Cost Containment Mechanisms. Offset Protocols. For transportation fuel combustion emissions, the covered entity is the supplier of the fuel.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

Designated volatility attainment and designated volatility nonattainment areas and their exact boundaries are described in 40 CFR part 81, or such part as shall later be designated for that purpose. The ethanol content of the gasoline shall be determined by use of one of the testing methodologies specified in appendix F to this part.

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