Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2009

” “ Some have even suggested that coal state representatives in Washington should block any advancement of national health care reform legislation until the coal industry’s demands are met by the EPA, ”, wrote Byrd. West Virginia is home to about 22,000 coal miners, down from 62,500 in 1979.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2013

In regions where the share of coal-based electricity is relatively low, EVs can achieve substantial GHG reduction, the team reports in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. emissions are less important because of the low contribution of light duty vehicles to national PM 10 and PM 2.5

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Coal Pollution China Gas 231

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

In the transportation sector, consumption and emissions trends in the past have been driven by changes in travel demand, fuel prices, and fuel economy regulations. Natural gas surpassed coal to become the most prevalent fuel used to generate electricity in the United States in 2016.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. —Julius McGee. 2019.05.024.

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Renewable Energy Portland Climate Change 292

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The emission reduction potential is most significant for light-duty vehicles and heavy-duty vehicles, with other contributions coming from shipping, aviation and biofuels. GtCO 2 /year (light duty vehicles) by 2030. There are an estimated 6,683 operating coal-fired power plants in the world, with a combined capacity of 1,964 GW.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The decrease in CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion was a result of multiple factors, including a continued shift from coal to natural gas, increased use of renewables in the electric power sector, and milder weather that contributed to less overall electricity use. above 1990 levels in 2007.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2021

The main sources were combustion emissions, probably from wood and coal-fired heating systems. It is becoming increasingly clear that soot also contributes to global warming by causing the dark particles to absorb light or contribute to cloud formation. The research was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, FKZ He 3086/15-1).

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Transportation Germany Climate Change Climate 243

Electric Auto Association

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Endless studies on the impact of pollution and climate change on low-income families have all come up with the same general result: It is a very real and very serious problem. In addition, lower-income communities are more susceptible to polluted runoff from highways, constant noise and light pollution, and noxious odors.

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Climate Change West Virginia Pollution Kansas City 73

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2014

Black carbon (BC) from incomplete biomass and fossil fuel combustion is the most strongly light-absorbing component of particulate matter (PM) air pollution and a major climate-forcing emission. Air pollution mitigation efforts focusing on reducing combustion pollution are likely to have major benefits for climate and human health.

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Carbon Emissions Motor Motors 275

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2014

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks , which is submitted annually to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, presents a national-level overview of annual greenhouse gas emissions since 1990. Carbon dioxide emissions from passenger cars and light-duty trucks totaled 1,061.0 Tg CO 2 Eq.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

coal, biomass, or waste—is heated in the absence of molecular oxygen to produce a solid containing char and ash and volatile gases. This reactor converts a portion of the volatile gases into a mixture of light olefins, predominantly ethylene and propylene. Carbonaceous materials—e.g., —US 9199889.

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Gasoline Coal Convert Conversion 150

Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. One type is the ultrasupercritical coal-fired steam power plant.

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Climate Change Climate Coal Grid 90

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2016

Freight hauling by trucks is a significant source of energy consumption and pollution around the world, and the fuel savings promised by the technology advances under this CERC-TRUCK program will help to combat climate change while advancing low-carbon economies. CERC is a Presidential initiative launched in November 2009.

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Climate Change Chinese China Obama 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2014

To develop the ranking, UCS averaged the per-mile emissions for each light-duty vehicle sold by each automaker. Climate Change Coal Emissions Fuel Efficiency' The gray segments represent models sold by smaller automakers, which are not ranked in the report. Source: UCS. Click to enlarge. Methodology.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

An international team of researchers has shed light on one way new particles are forming in the upper troposphere. All of the scientific uncertainty around climate change relates to clouds in one way or another, said Wang’s advisor and co-author Neil Donahue, professor in chemistry.

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Emissions Climate Pollution Climate Change 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

This decrease was largely driven by a decrease in emissions from fossil fuel combustion, which was a result of multiple factors including a continued shift from coal to natural gas and increased use of renewables in the electric power sector, and milder weather that contributed to less overall electricity use.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

Canada formally submitted its target, referred to as an Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Regulations for natural gas-fired electricity, which would build on Canada’s existing coal-fired electricity regulations.

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2005 Canada Oil Gas 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The EEA report ‘ Electric vehicles from life cycle and circular economy perspectives ’ reviews current evidence on electric cars’ impacts on climate change, air quality, noise and ecosystems, compared with conventional cars. —“Electric vehicles from life cycle and circular economy perspectives”. g CO 2 /km) since 2012.

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Climate Pollution Gasoline-Electric 2017 268

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2014

Decomposition of the decadal change in total global CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion by four driving factors; population, income (GDP) per capita, energy intensity of GDP and carbon intensity of energy. Increased use of coal relative to other energy sources has reversed the long?standing WG III Summary for Policymakers.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 28, 2018

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Coal Light Los Angeles Climate Change 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2013

The IEA said that this reflects the continued domination of fossil fuels—particularly coal—in the energy mix and the slow uptake of other, lower-carbon supply technologies. Coal technologies continue to dominate growth in power generation. Around half of coal-fired power plants built in 2011 use inefficient technologies.

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Carbon Supplies Global Transportation 265

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2017

The hot reaction zone is either gas-fired, coal-fired, or electrically heated in a furnace; the condensing section is water-cooled. the impact of Mg metal production on climate change needs to be understood at a global scale and a new, energy-saving process for fabricating Mg ingots should be considered. —Wada et al.

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Energy Production Coal Suzuki 236

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Left, global light-duty fleet in the electric-favoring case; right, the hydrogen-favoring case. The cost-effectiveness of measures to address climate change is enhanced through a multisector perspective. Tags: Climate Change Electric (Battery) Emissions Hybrids Hydrogen Policy Power Generation. Click to enlarge.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Climate Change. And while preventing working people earning a livelihood may make them feel good, it does nothing to solve the real problem of climate change. . Yet this crisis is a mere harbinger of the candle-lit future that awaits us if we do not change course. Energy Solutions. Gas is the only answer.

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Power Powered Wind Coal 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2011

We have had a long debate about climate change in this country. Most Australians now agree our climate is changing, this is caused by carbon pollution, this has harmful effects on our environment and on the economy—and the Government should act. Australia Clean Energy Future website.

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Tax Credit Fuel Tax Carbon Australia 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2017

The Paris Agreement reflected an unprecedented international determination to act on climate. The German government requested IEA and IRENA to shed light on the essential elements of an energy sector transition that would be consistent with limiting the rise in global temperature to this level. Coal use would decline most rapidly.

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Renewable Climate Climate Change Carbon 199

Driivz

MARCH 1, 2022

For the transportation sector, electrification means replacing fossil fuels with electricity as the means of powering light-duty vehicles, medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and buses. The primary goal is to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and, ultimately, contribute to mitigating the effects of climate change on the planet.

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Transportation CO2 Grid Fleet 52

Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2023

Transcript Eliza Strickland: Technology to combat climate change got a big boost this year when the US Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act , which authorized more than 390 billion for spending on clean energy and climate change. And at the Northern Lights project, they’re looking at storing about 1.5

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Carbon Store Climate Change Light 51

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Our results suggest that gas-aerosol interactions play an important role in methane’s GWP, and hence our larger value would allow better optimization of climate change mitigation policies. Methane’s GWP may also change with time as air quality regulations alter the background state of tropospheric chemistry. Shindell et al.

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Climate Change Climate Ozone Pollution 268

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The five different fuel groups were those derived: from conventional petroleum; from unconventional petroleum; synthetically from natural gas, coal, or combinations of coal and biomass via the FT process; renewable oils; and alcohols. If these criteria are met, then aviation appears to be a ready market for their use. Hileman et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Methanol can be produced from a range of renewable sources and fossil-fuel based feed-stocks; in practice methanol is mainly produced in coal-rich China from coal. cited one study showing that the full lifecycle (well-to-wheel) CO 2 emissions from M85 (with coal-derived methanol) are 2.5 Methanol in China.

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Renewable Carbon Water Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

It does include the revised handling of fuel economy standards to reflect the proposal for light-duty vehicles in model years 2012-2016. New light duty vehicle efficiency reaches 40 mpg by 2035. The natural gas share falls slightly due to the completion of coal plants under construction, and the addition of new renewable capacity.

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Renewable Oil 2010 Energy 199

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Up there, 10 to 50 kilometers above the Earth’s surface, ozone molecules absorb the sun’s ultraviolet light, protecting life far below. This question of whether climate change becomes so bad that we have to do something to dull its impacts and reduce human suffering is a very big one,” says Keutsch, an atmospheric chemist.

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Ozone Solar Climate Change Climate 116

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The DOE-QTR defines six key strategies: increase vehicle efficiency; electrification of the light duty fleet; deploy alternative fuels; increase building and industrial efficiency; modernize the electrical grid; and deploy clean electricity. DOE’s most significant role in transport research is here.

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Transportation Fuel Economy Light Fuel 218

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

The bill also directs the President to work with the relevant Federal agencies and California to harmonize, to the maximum extent possible, the federal fuel economy standards, any emission standards promulgated by EPA, and the California standards for light-duty vehicles. light duty vehicles—e.g., Clean Fuels and Vehicles.

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Climate Standards Carbon California 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

Jacobson used a computer model of global climate, air pollution and weather that he developed over the last 20 years and updated to include additional atmospheric processes to analyze how soot can heat clouds, snow and ice. Black carbon can also absorb light reflecting from the surface, which helps make it such a potent warming agent.

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Global Ozone CO2 Pollution 230

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

The new report, part of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2011 series, examines the key factors that could result in a more prominent role for natural gas in the global energy mix, and the implications for other fuels, energy security and climate change. Support for methanol fueling infrastructure should also be considered.

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MIT Gas Climate Gas-Electric 210