Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

Among the findings: Summer surface ozone (O 3 ) decreases in most locations due to widespread reductions of traffic NO x emissions. Across scenarios, we found the more cars that transitioned to electric power, the better for summertime ozone levels. Locations with clean energy sources, however, saw reductions.

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MAY 7, 2019

The electric bus fleet is anticipated to reduce ozone emissions by 1.1 The electric buses are powered by the City’s own San José Clean Energy source, contributing to the Airport meeting its sustainability goals in conjunction with Climate Smart San José.

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APRIL 21, 2022

Types of Green Energy. To be classified as green energy , an energy source must be renewable and must not release pollution into the atmosphere. Some kinds of green energy include: Wind Energy: Thought to be the most renewable form of energy, wind energy is suited to high altitudes or undeveloped plains.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

million to transit projects that improve emissions while supporting emerging clean fuel and advanced propulsion technologies. million from FTA’s Clean Fuels Grant Program and $49.9 million from FTA’s Transit Investment in Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) III Program.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2020

and that due to ambient ozone pollution increased by 139.2%. Climate change exacerbates pollution, the researchers noted, through atmospheric stagnation, temperature-driven increases in particulate matter, and ground-level ozone formation, which are likely to be particularly severe in India. since 1990.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Improvements in air quality and public health in the US coincided with increased federal air quality regulations, and have taken place despite increases in population, energy and electricity use, and vehicle miles traveled between 1990 and 2010. We’ve invested a lot of resources as a society to clean up our air. Units are deaths year

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, a new global initiative to seize the opportunity of realizing concrete benefits on climate, health, food and energy resulting from reducing short-lived climate pollutants. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Traditional ignition systems when used to enhance internal combustion engine (ICE) efficiency and lower emissions are handicapped with high energy consumption and poor durability leading to an unattractive cost of ownership. These vehicles have long lifetimes and will continue to occupy the roads next to clean EVs for years to come.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Specifically, in this action, NHTSA is affirming that its statutory authority to set nationally applicable fuel economy standards under the express preemption provisions of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) dictates that such state and local programs are preempted. criteria pollutants—is not affected by the action.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2015

ARB staff developed this strategy using a multi-pollutant scenario planning tool ( Vision 2.0 ) that quantifies changes in ozone and PM 2.5 is the next generation of ARB’s first Vision scenario planning tool used for ARB’s D raft Vision for Clean Air: A Framework for Air Quality and Climate Planning published in 2012. Vision 2.0

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 18, 2007

We need to prioritize clean electricity generation and plug-in battery cars to utilize that energy efficiently. Of our "alternative fuel" options, only electricity can truly be made renewably (wind, solar, geothermal, small hydro), with no carbon or other noxious emissions. And only electric drive cars can operate truly zero-emission.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Thanks to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s (IIJA), there is $5 billion available in funding for clean school buses. Empowering clean transportation for children We’ll start with the most important reason; electric school buses are healthier for the children. Ready to get started?

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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. The details of the design, including analyses of its potential fuel cost and health impacts, are published in an open-access paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Consumer products such as shampoo, cleaning products and paint now contribute as much to emitted volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in cities as tailpipe emissions from vehicles, according to a new study led by NOAA. Gasoline is stored in closed, hopefully airtight, containers and the VOCs in gasoline are burned for energy.

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Green Car Congress

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

OCTOBER 18, 2019

20 % of stations registered concentrations above the EU ozone (O 3 ) target value for the protection of human health. Poor air quality continues to damage Europeans’ health, especially in urban areas, with particulate matter (PM), nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) and ground-level ozone (0 3 ) causing the largest harm.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

In California, the environmental footprint of ports is significant, both because of the volume of activity itself and because they tend to be located in areas that already experience heavy automobile and truck traffic, create smog, particulate matter, and ozone pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2014

The main purpose of the LoNo Program is to deploy the cleanest and most energy efficient US-made transit buses that have been largely proven in testing and demonstrations but are not yet widely deployed in transit fleets. A maintenance area, as defined in section 5303, for ozone or carbon monoxide. 7407(d)); or.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2017

This is in contrast to the conventional mobile AC system, where the cabin air is directly cooled by the refrigerant HFC-134a, which is ozone safe but has a high GWP. The new SL-MAC system, which is testing the low-GWP refrigerants, is expected to increase vehicle energy efficiency. A2L and A2 are safety classifications.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2019

The researchers used exposure data from a model that simulates atmospheric chemical processes and the way they interact with land, sea and chemicals emitted from natural and man-made sources such as energy generation, industry, traffic and agriculture. They focused particularly on PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2014

Selin and colleagues compared the health benefits to the economic costs of three climate policies: a clean-energy standard, a transportation policy, and a cap-and-trade program. In 2011, 231 counties in the US exceeded the EPA’s regulatory standards for ozone, the main component of smog.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Generating Revenue Job seekers and current staff members are looking for facilities that offer EV charging as an employee amenity , and patients and visitors are looking to recoup the energy used during their travels. But it’s not just about attracting new visitors to your healthcare facility. million fewer asthma attacks 10.7

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

These technologies include, but are not limited to, advanced aftertreatment and waste heat recovery; lean-burn plus lean-NO x emissions traps; integration of zero-emission miles technologies; further refinements in reducing friction and parasitic energy losses; and widespread utilization of renewable and natural gas and hydrogen blends.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2010

In October 2007, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed AB 118 which provides approximately $200 million annually through 2015 to the California Energy Commission, the Bureau of Automotive Repair and the ARB to fund air quality improvement projects that will accelerate clean engine technologies. ARB was appropriated approximately $42.3

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings. Background. Transportation. —Draft Scoping Plan Update.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Electric cars powered by renewable energy could significantly reduce health risk to young children, says the American Lung Association. The post The Switch To Electric Cars & Renewables Will Make Our Children Healthier appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

EPA will finalize its mobile source GHG rules under the Clean Air Act, and “ provide a framework for continued improvements in that sector.” ( Earlier post. ). EPA will also expand energy conservation and efficiency programs and continue to develop solutions for reducing GHG emissions from large stationary sources like power plants.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Waxman of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Chairman Edward J. Markey of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee on Tuesday released a draft of far-reaching energy and climate legislation that targets job creation, promotes renewables and energy efficiency, and places limits on emissions of greenhouse gases.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For example, Nevada Energy provides a 75% rebate of the cost of electric school buses and eligible chargers with its Electric School Bus Incentives program. You can find state-level electric school bus funding programs using the Alternative Fuels Data Center search tool.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Improvements were also made in PM emissions control, eliminating the need for active regeneration (onboard cleaning via exhaust fuel injection upstream of DOC) of the DPF during ACES Phase 2 testing, compared to the several regeneration occurrences with the 2007 technology engines tested in ACES Phase 1.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The cap-and-trade joins a suite of other major climate program measures including standards for ultra-clean cars (Advanced Clean Cars, earlier post ), low-carbon fuels (Low Carbon Fuel Standard, earlier post ) and renewable electricity. the destruction of existing stores of ozone-depleting substances in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2009

The studies use case studies to demonstrate the co-benefits of tackling climate change in four sectors: electricity generation, household energy use, transportation, and food and agriculture. Black carbon is a short-lived greenhouse pollutant which, along with ozone, is responsible for a significant proportion of global warming.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

A US Department of Energy (DOE) program designed to spur the use of high performance supercomputers to advance US manufacturing has funded 13 new industry projects for a total of $3.8 GM and EPRI. Sepion’s polymer membrane technology provides a counterpoint, yielding long-lasting lithium-sulfur cells.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Since natural gas emits lower levels of these pollutants, some energy experts have proposed greater reliance on that fuel source as a way to slow down global warming and reduce the impacts of energy use on the environment. degrees F (3 degrees C) of warming projected by 2100 under current energy trends. degree Celsius).

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APRIL 2, 2012

Clean clouds and non-light-absorbing (transparent) particles scatter or reflect sunlight, reducing the amount of solar energy that is absorbed by the surface. Clouds warmed by the absorbed energy have shorter atmospheric lifetimes and may be less likely to precipitate compared to clean clouds. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 2, 2009

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. Unger et al. Click to enlarge. Unger et al. Nadine Unger, Drew T.

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