Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2022

This funding comes from DOT’s Buses and Bus Facilities Program and Low or No Emission Vehicle (Low-No) Program, helping transit agencies purchase and lease new, cleaner vehicles and renovate and construct the infrastructure needed for zero-emission transit vehicles. Cleaner Transportation in the Coachella Valley. City of Fresno.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering have found that with an emissions-based incentive towards electrification, ridesourcing companies such as Uber and Lyft would electrify more and cut their emissions by amounts ranging from 10% in New York to 22% in Los Angeles. —Bruchon et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Thus, it is important to identify and quantify the most important human-produced sources of VOC emissions to effectively mitigate air pollution and improve human health, the authors said. Even so, lotions, paints and other products contribute about as much to air pollution as does the transportation sector. de Gouw, Stuart A.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Despite their small size, these engines are highly polluting. The zero-emission alternatives are quieter, cleaner, have less vibration, and havegreatly improved over the last few years. Older models on store shelves can also be purchased even if they are gasoline-powered.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2017

As a result, Although organic gas emissions from gasoline vehicles in urban areas such as Los Angeles are expected to fall significantly over the next two decades, the team predicted no reduction in SOA production resulting from these lower emissions due to the effects of changing NMOG:NO x on SOA yields. —Allen Robinson.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 19, 2013

It was the terrible smog of cities like Los Angeles in the 1970s that prompted a huge change in the efficiency and pollution controls of automobiles. Today, cars are many orders of magnitude cleaner than their counterparts from previous decades. But what if our roads could help further?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The mayors of London, Paris, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Quito, Vancouver, Mexico City, Milan, Seattle, Auckland and Cape Town have pledged to procure only zero-emission buses from 2025 and ensure that a major area of their city is zero emission by 2030. Reduce the number of polluting vehicles on city streets.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2016

In “Estimated Excess Morbidity and Mortality Caused by Air Pollution above ATS Recommended Standards, 2011-2013,” published online in the August edition of Annals of the American Thoracic Society , researchers report on the annual health benefits of meeting more protective standards recommended by the ATS for O 3 and PM 2.5.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2012

A scatter plot of CO, as a tracer for pollution, versus CO 2 , as a tracer for the amount of combustion, for 2002 and 2010. The magnitude of the drop in VOC levels was surprising, even to researchers who expected some kind of decrease resulting from California’s longtime efforts to control vehicle pollution. ppbv/ppmv to 10.7

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2017

Diesel trucks are heavily used in the San Joaquin Valley and Los Angeles Basin, which suffer from some of the worst air quality in the nation. EPA is committed to helping California achieve cleaner, healthier air by ensuring compliance with the state’s pollution rules. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In California, Big Blue Bus (BBB) will receive $870,000 from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee’s (MSRC) Near Zero Engine Incentive Program. Nationally recognized for its long-standing commitment to a cleaner environment, the entire fleet operates on alternative fuels, including renewable natural gas (RNG).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2012

They did the test in real homes as part of Project Surya, which quantifies the impacts of cleaner cooking technologies in a village in India. Singh, Tanveer Ahmed, Nithya Ramanathan, and Veerabhadran Ramanathan (2012) Real-Time Assessment of Black Carbon Pollution in Indian Households Due to Traditional and Improved Biomass Cookstoves.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Approximately 9,000 people in California are estimated to die prematurely each year as a result of exposure to fine particle pollution, according to a new report issued by the California Air Resources Board (ARB). Fine particle pollution, smaller than 2.5 A causal relationship indicates the highest level of scientific certainty.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

delivered the first all-electric mobile surgical instrument lab (eMSIL) to University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Health Center. gallon ultrasonic cleaners, among other custom cabinetry and equipment. Winnebago Industries, Inc. The eMSIL is powered by an all-electric EPIC F-53 33-foot chassis from Motiv Power Systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

The California Air Resources Board awarded $200 million in Proposition 1B funds to cut harmful emissions from heavy-duty trucks and other sources in the state’s four busiest trade corridors to clean up air pollution and protect community health. The trade corridors to receive funding are: $110 million for Los Angeles/Inland Empire; $55.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2018

The most important finding of this study is that infectious processes of respiratory disease may be influenced by particulate matter pollution at various levels. level is lower than places like Los Angeles and New York. The exact biological implications of the study’s findings require further investigation. It may be that PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

A new study suggests that focusing on a gasoline-fueled vehicle’s cold start is the best target for future design changes to reduce emissions of criteria pollutants. It was also a very forward-thinking study in anticipation of how cars that meet future emissions standards will lead to reductions in air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

To achieve the best outcomes, the brief suggests, plug-in vehicle adoption should typically be focused on HEVs and PHEVs by city drivers in mild-climate regions with a clean electricity grid, such as San Francisco or Los Angeles. Further, drivers should not be encouraged to charge at night in coal-heavy regions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2015

The DERA grant recipients are: The City of Los Angeles Harbor Department will replace a diesel-powered crane with an all-electric crane that produces zero emissions at the San Pedro Bay. Depending on the type of equipment, new diesel engines are 90% cleaner than the old engines they replace.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 22, 2010

South Bay Bicycle Coalition members including Redondo Beach Councilman Steve Diels, with County Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas and County Department of Public Health Staff upon awarding of the grant. That's South Bay Bicycle Coalition Chairman, Todd "Elvis" Dipaola rocking the shades.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

Making the transition to cleaner, lower polluting near-zero and zero-emission vehicles is a critical component to addressing California’s clean air and climate challenges. There are currently 10 operational hydrogen refueling stations in California—the most recent opened in May 2014 on the CSU Los Angeles campus.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2010

It requires OGVs to use less polluting marine distillate fuels instead of heavy fuel oil within a designated area along the California coastline. The OGV Fuel Regulation was adopted by the ARB in 2008 and implementation began on 1 July 2009. In addition, this route on the Southern side of the Channel Islands goes through the US Navy’s Pt.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2012

Under subcontract to Air Products, FuelCell Energy is operating a DFC power plant at an Orange County Sanitation District wastewater treatment facility near Los Angeles. Air Products and FuelCell Energy are already working together on a three-year hydrogen production project in California, which began in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2012

The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners formally approved an Environmental Ship Index (ESI) program to take effect 1 July, becoming the first seaport in North America and the Pacific Rim to do so. Ship emissions are the single-largest source of air pollution from port-related operations.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

That push is particularly focused on the trucking routes between the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and the distribution centers of the Inland Empire – which Ontario lies at the heart of. There’s a big push for zero emission trucks in California right now, in response to California’s new truck regulations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

While current state and federal measures are on target to reduce toxic diesel locomotive emissions 65% or more by 2020, additional measures recommended by ARB staff would ultimately provide up to 85% or greater emissions reductions within the rail yards over the same period, resulting in cleaner air for nearby residential neighborhoods as well.

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EV Life

APRIL 7, 2023

Clean Cars 4 All The Clean Cars 4 All program helps lower-income residents invest in EVs by replacing their older, higher-polluting vehicles with cleaner ones. This grant is issued directly to the dealer to lower the overall cost of the purchase.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

This new rule directly addresses disproportionate risks and health and pollution burdens affecting these communities and puts California on the path for an all zero-emission short-haul drayage fleet in ports and railyards by 2035, and zero-emission “last-mile” delivery trucks and vans by 2040.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

In coordination with local air officials, the California Air Resources Board is initiating a retire-and-replace pilot program in the Greater Los Angeles area and San Joaquin Valley to help people of low income replace old, polluting cars with cleaner, more fuel efficient vehicles that also cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

In a separate action, the California Energy Commission approved $4,979,070 through the current ARFVT program to projects that will support increased numbers of cleaner, alternative fuel vehicles on California roadways. Replacing older, high-polluting buses and vehicles with new CNG buses and vehicles can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

That means you can drive around town as an electric car, and then jump on the freeway and head to Los Angeles, without having to recharge the battery. Catalytic converters, along with so-called leak-proof emissions systems, are the primary reason why today’s cars are so much cleaner than those of several decades ago.

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