Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The California Air Resources Board today approved a statewide plan for attaining the federal health-based standard for ozone, typically experienced as smog. We simply cannot provide clean air to Californians without the federal government doing its part. —CARB Chair Liane Randolph.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

New research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, finds that the discharge water from ships’ exhaust gas treatment systems—i.e., A scrubber is used on ships to clean exhaust gases, primarily to reduce emissions of sulfur oxides to the atmosphere. Ytreberg et al.

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MAY 12, 2021

The DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and its licensee Moselle Technologies , have won two Cooperative Research and Development Awards (CRADA) and a 2021 DOE Advanced Manufacturing Office award to advance the process of using magnetic nanoparticles for capturing strategically important elements from water sources.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Oily water treatment schematics. ABB has developed a water treatment technology that cleans oily wastewater—by far the largest waste product in oil and gas production—quickly, cost-effectively and energy-efficiently. About seven to ten barrels of produced water are generated for each barrel of oil. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2011

Data collected during a major 2010 state-federal atmospheric research project show that the first-in-the-nation regulation requiring ocean-going vessels to use clean fuel when near the California coast has been extremely effective in reducing sulfur dioxide pollution from ships, according to the California Air Resources Board (ARB).

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APRIL 12, 2021

A team of scientists from Heriot-Watt University has found the waters in the Faroe-Shetland Channel (FSC) are teeming with oil-eating bacteria. We demonstrate that bacterioplankton communities were significantly different across water samples of contrasting origin and depth. —Tony Gutierrez. Angelina G.

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MARCH 14, 2019

Pollution from petroleum hydrocarbons such as diesel, which is widely used for heating, transportation and power generation poses a threat to wildlife in Antarctica. The Antarctic Treaty prohibits the use of non-Antarctic organisms in the region, creating high demand for indigenous organisms that can clean up polluted soil.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

Scientists from the University of Birmingham launched a major research project to investigate how “clean cold” could help to achieve almost all of the United Nations’ (UN) global Sustainable Development Goals. The University of Birmingham is a world-leader in clean cold’ expertise. Dearman Engine. It also accounts for 3.3

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MAY 19, 2012

Pollution warms the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds, according to a computational study by a team of researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of Maryland published in Geophysical Research Letters. —Fan et al. —Jiwen Fan.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2012

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners have launched a new initiative that aims to reduce pollution levels, improve resource efficiency and reduce infrastructure costs in cities across the world. Up to 80% of the world population is expected to reside in cities by 2050.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Lead organization. Description.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

Leaded gasoline was a ubiquitous source of air pollution between the 1920s and 1970s. To put this numbers in perspective, during the Flint Michigan water crisis of 2014, one per cent of the children had blood lead levels above 10 micrograms per deciliter. Back then, 88% of us had blood lead levels above 10 micrograms per deciliter.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2022

The Chvaletice resource is the only sizeable, classified resource of manganese in the European Union. ? As the project recycles historic mine tailings, it will clean up the contaminated site and eliminate a longstanding source of water pollution. Chvaletice is not a mining project. Background.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2010

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing regulations employing the “good neighbor” provision of the Clean Air Act to reduce interstate transport of upwind state emissions from power generation that contribute to air quality problems in downwind states. States covered by the proposed Transport Rule. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2012

City center residents who took part in a study were almost twice as likely to suffer from coronary artery calcification (CAC), which can lead to heart disease, than people who lived in less polluted urban and rural areas, according to research published in the May issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine. Jess Lambrechtsen.

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JUNE 14, 2013

In California, reductions in emissions of black carbon since the late 1980s—mostly from diesel engines as a result of air quality programs—have resulted in a measurable reduction of concentrations of global warming pollutants in the atmosphere, according to a study examining the impact of black carbon on California’s climate.

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MARCH 25, 2020

This puffy line is not just exhaust from the engine, but a change in the clouds that’s caused by small airborne particles of pollution. Pollution from ships creates lines of clouds that can stretch hundreds of miles. The difference helps explain how much industrial pollution influences clouds. NASA Earth Observatory.

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MAY 9, 2016

Air pollution legislation to control fossil fuel emissions and the associated acid rain has worked—perhaps leading to the need for sulfur fertilizers for crop production. We don’t think there are actual sulfur deficiencies yet, but clearly more sulfur is coming out of the soil and water than what is going in. David, Lowell E.

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AUGUST 18, 2009

New research shows that air pollution in eastern China has reduced the amount of light rainfall over the past 50 years and decreased by 23% the number of days of light rain in the eastern half of the country. While the light rains have diminished, pollution has increased dramatically in China in the last half of the 20 th century.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2015

While that report projected vessel activity, it did not explore the environmental impacts of increased shipping in terms of air emissions or the potential climate impacts from increases in short-lived climate pollutants such as black carbon. The emissions report focuses on the low- and mid-range diversion scenarios—i.e., Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2012

million grant to the World Resources Institute (WRI) to advance the progress of environmentally sustainable and livable cities in China, India, and Brazil. WRI has expertise in climate, water, energy, ecosystem services, and in pursuing solutions in collaboration with governments, business, academia and civil society.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

New clean fuel regulations in California and voluntary slowdowns by shipping companies substantially reduce air pollution caused by near-shore ships, according to a new NOAA-led study published online in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Credit: ACS, Lack et al. Click to enlarge. —Lack et al.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

NAs are resistant to breakdown and persist as pollutants in the water used to extract the oils and tar. This water is contained in large settling or tailing ponds. Richard Johnson, Ben Smith, Steve Rowland and Corrinne Whitby (2009) A micro solution to a mega problem—can microbes be used to clean up dirty oil?

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JUNE 3, 2013

DNV and WWF have developed a concept design for a new research vessel—the Spindrift—to focus on the seemingly intractable problems associated with cleaning up the plastic debris that is accumulating in the world’s ocean gyres. It has been shown to accumulate in the relatively still waters inside the five large ocean gyres.

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MARCH 27, 2019

An annual ' tracking the progress of California Climate Investments, released by the California Air Resources Board and the California Department of Finance, finds that nearly $1.4 Overall, 60 new clean school buses were delivered to rural school districts throughout the state.

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APRIL 9, 2019

Engines that could be deployed in the relatively near term could also use high rpm operation and /or water injection, to allow operation with a very small amount of alcohol in addition to a low concentration mixture such as E10 (or possibly with no additional alcohol). Ethanol or methanol would be employed to increase knock resistance.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

The results of a new analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) show that, when combined with a trend toward higher methane leakage and combustion slip, there is no climate benefit from using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel—regardless of the engine technology. First, it contains very little sulfur.

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JULY 8, 2015

CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. The companies say they a vision for a larger role for methanol as a clean and sustainable fuel worldwide. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 27, 2018

vehicles) and industrial air pollution—fuel powerful storms and influence weather much more than has been appreciated, according to a study published in the journal Science. The additional condensate adds to both the warm rain and supercooled cloud water; when freezing occurs aloft, this addition further enhances convection (i.e.,

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MAY 23, 2022

This is important, especially in the relatively clean upper troposphere. There are no factories or farms, and planes are thought to make up most of the pollutants in this area. To make clouds, you need water to nucleate or freeze. The emission sources are limited up there. —Neil Donahue. Bertozzi, B.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

billion in categorical grants for states that are implementing environmental statutes such as the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. 2 billion for Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving funds (SRFs). . $2 2 billion for Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving funds (SRFs).

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MARCH 17, 2011

The method is also capable of cleaning oil spills from beaches and separating oil from drill cuttings, the solid particles that must be removed from drilling fluids in oil and gas wells. The Penn State separation method uses very little energy and water, and all solvents are recycled and reused.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 21, 2024

People march, sign petitions, meet with their elected officials, plant trees, clean up their towns and roads. Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. We are imperilling food production, polluting our ocean and air, creating a more dangerous, less stable environment, and holding back sustainable development.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are collaborating in the $20-million CalNex research project to examine the nexus between air pollution and climate change. How best can we characterize and model air flow over coastal waters and the complex terrain of California?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2014

The challenges lie in the fact that the material must be sufficiently clean in order to be recycled, and we have to be sure that it is not contaminated by other harmful materials. Other challenges include finding methods that can identify and characterize nanoparticles in gases, water and solid materials. —Odd Løvhaugen.

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JULY 23, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected Argonne National Laboratory to lead a consortium of university, private sector and national laboratory partners for a new, medium- and heavy-duty truck technical track under the US-China Clean Energy Research Center ( CERC ) Truck Research Utilizing Collaborative Knowledge (TRUCK) program.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Coal-powered synthetic natural gas (SNG) plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change. —Robert B.

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