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How Engineers Can Help Protect Earth From Worsening Climate Change

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Fortunately, we still have a narrow window of opportunity to alter the Earth’s climate path, and I believe we can do it. Climate change is a global societal crisis that is causing devastating consequences. Lives and businesses are being severely affected, and the cost of recovering after each event continues to mount.

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NTSB Chair questions safety impact of heavy EVs

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Ultimately, to manage climate change, the world needs to stop emitting greenhouse gases from vehicles and power plants. A focus on driving lighter, safer, cleaner and less can ensure a better future for everyone. Electrifying vehicles adds yet more weight. —Shaffer et al.

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

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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 —Bonnie Holmes-Gen, senior director of Air Quality and Climate Change with the American Lung Association in California. billion by 2050.

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ADB Study Finds Annual Economic Losses in Southeast Asia from Climate Change Could be More Than Twice the Global Average

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The mean cost of cost of climate change for the four countries—Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam—under a “business-as-usual” scenario and if market and non-market impacts and catastrophic risks are all considered could be equivalent to losing 6.7%

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California Air Resources Board Launches $20M in Funding Assistance for Heavy-Duty Hybrid Trucks and Buses

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The California Air Resources Board launched a $20 million funding assistance program designed to spur the purchase of hybrid trucks and buses that reduce smog-forming pollution and address climate change. Transportation accounts for 40% of the total emissions of climate changing gases.

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SoCalGas reduces CNG price by $0.26 per gallon at its fueling stations by using LCFS credits

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The LCFS program is administered by the California Air Resources Board and seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels by 20% through 2030. Natural gas costs significantly less than gasoline or diesel per GGE. per gallon in February, whereas the average cost of gasoline in California was $3.24

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California Governor signs new super-pollutants legislation into law; black carbon, fluorinated gases and methane

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The law requires the California Air Resources Board (ARB), no later than 1 January 2018, to approve and begin implementing a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants to achieve the targeted reductions. Reducing these pollutants can have a more immediate beneficial impact on climate change.

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