Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2021

Soot particles from oil and wood heating systems as well as road traffic can pollute the air in Europe on a much larger scale than previously assumed. The IPCC will adopt and publish its new assessment report ( AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis ) in early August 2021. forest fires).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Persistent organic pollutants are chemicals of substantial international concern. The presence of these pollutants in the Arctic is important for several reasons. Organic pollutants typically condense and rain down into Arctic regions. First, the researchers say there’s a very real health concern.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

However, it could be accomplished without impinging on environmentally sensitive areas in Brazil and while allowing for the expansion of other agricultural crops and human needs, the researchers report in a paper in the journal Nature Climate Change. of crude oil consumption and 1.5–5.6% Gigatons yr −1. This would displace 3.8–13.7%

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Brazil Emissions Global Climate Change 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

They further agreed to reduce air pollutant emissions by aligning air pollutant emission standards for light- and heavy-duty vehicles and corresponding ultra low-sulfur fuel standards by 2018. Short-lived climate pollutants. In addition, the SmartWay freight transportation program will be extended to Mexico.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2014

Ozone pollution across the continental United States will become far more difficult to keep in check as temperatures rise, according to new work led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). These gases come from human activities such as combustion of coal and oil as well as natural sources such as emissions from plants.

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Ozone Climate Change Pollution Climate 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2017

CARB also adopted a new plan to curb destructive “super pollutants” including black carbon, fluorinated gases and methane. The plan, California’s Short-lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy, maps out the route to more rapid greenhouse gas reductions by clamping down on these super pollutants.

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Climate California Ozone Pollution 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2017

Leading shipowners and operators, classification societies, engine and technology builders and suppliers, big data providers, and oil companies have signed up to a new Global Industry Alliance (GIA) to support transitioning shipping and its related industries towards a low carbon future.

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Industrial Industry Global Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2011

The climate change benefit is estimated for a given year (2050) and human health and crop benefits are. Fast action on pollutants such as black carbon, ground-level ozone and methane may help limit near term global temperature rise and significantly increase the chances of keeping temperature rise below 2 °C (3.6 °F)—and

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Ozone Carbon Climate Change Global 218

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Marine shipping fuels will get cleaner in 2020 when a regulation by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) requires a decrease in the allowable amount of sulfur in fuel oil from 3.5% pollution impacts in 2020 with and without the use of low-sulphur fuels. —i.e., from 35,000 parts per million (ppm) to 5,000 ppm.

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Standards Climate Fuel Cleaner 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2016

and Par Hawaii Refining that resolves alleged Clean Air Act violations and protects public health by reducing air pollution at six refineries. Flaring results in emissions of SO 2 , greenhouse gases and toxic air pollutants, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and hazardous air pollutants. million civil penalty.

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

As the world continues to face climate change challenges, it is becoming increasingly critical that we transition to more sustainable energy sources. To begin with, they are much cleaner and more environmentally friendly, emitting far fewer harmful emissions that contribute to air and water pollution, as well as climate change.

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Renewable Energy Charging Climate Change 59

Creative Greenius

APRIL 26, 2016

.” He always was so ahead of the curve… Like I say, I live in Torrance, home of the exploding Exxon Mobil refinery where our Air Quality Management District just gave the refinery operators exemptions to exceed pollution limits while they restart the aging climate wrecker back up. .

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Los Angeles Renewable Long Beach Climate Change 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. billion in FY 2014 budget); Assessing climate-change impacts in the United States; Launching a climate data initiative; and. Providing a toolkit for climate resilience.

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Obama Cleaner Climate Fuel Economy 249

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

For the medium term, the organizations suggest refining and implementing options investigated over the short term. In 2010, developing countries spent roughly $193 billion, or 47% of all fossil fuel consumption subsidies, on oil while industrial countries spent roughly $28 billion. Oil demand would be reduced by 3.7

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). The researchers included a sixth pollutant, ammonia (NH 3 ).

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Gasoline Emissions Gasoline-Electric Pollution 236

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Issues covered in the briefing include emissions, air pollution, noise and renewable energy and the impact of transport on ecosystems and biodiversity. Oil consumption by the transport sector will need to fall by more than two-thirds to meet the objective of reducing consumption by 70% by 2050 compared with 2008 levels. Air pollution.

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Environment Transportation Emissions Climate 150

Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Our principal goal should be to mitigate problems that are global in scale, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, virus transmission, and invasive species. The growth of supply chains and networks of organizations involved in production is common in many parts of the economy, but not electricity.

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Renewable Energy Fuel New York City 98

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2013

Emissions reductions focused on anthropogenic climate-forcing agents with relatively short atmospheric lifetimes, such as methane (CH4) and black carbon, have been suggested as a strategy to reduce the rate of climate change over the next several decades.

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Climate Pollution Carbon Emissions 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

One key issue that the Waxman-Markey discussion draft does not address is how to allocate the tradable emission allowances that restrict the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from electric utilities, oil companies, and other sources. Title III, Reducing Global Warming Pollution , (the cap-and-trade title), has eight subsections.

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Climate Standards Carbon California 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2009

Business leaders from some of the world’s biggest companies called for water, energy and climate change issues to be linked in global negotiations, such as the international climate talks due to culminate in Copenhagen in December. Climate change will affect the use and availability of both. Data: WBCSD (2009).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

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. record levels , mostly because of the coal, oil, and natural gas that gets burned for electricity, heat, and transportation.

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Ozone Solar Climate Change Climate 118

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions 236

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the details of their long-anticipated energy and climate change legislation on Wednesday, 12 May. Decreasing Dependence on Foreign Oil. Farmers are exempt from the carbon pollution compliance obligations in the bill. Transportation Efficiency.

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Gas-Electric Climate Gas Energy 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change. One question is who will be responsible for verifying changes in carbon, which raises questions about the role of a regulatory agency for accrediting claimed changes in carbon levels from an activity.

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Carbon Climate Change Climate Emissions 255

Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2009

In a 2007 study, Winebrake and James Corbett from the University of Delaware (who is a co-author of the current study) concluded that pollution from marine shipping causes approximately 60,000 premature cardiopulmonary and lung cancer deaths around the world each year. Where fuel sulfur content is reduced globally to 0.5% Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

A study led by researchers at UC Berkeley has found that diesel exhaust forms about seven times more secondary organic aerosols (SOA) than gasoline exhaust for the same mass of unburned fuel emissions and, given emission factors, can be expected to form 15 times more SOA than gasoline per liter of fuel burned. Gentner et al. Earlier post.).

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Diesel Los Angeles Exhaust Gasoline 281

Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2012

Within the US alone, almost 12 million barrels of oil are consumed per day in ground transportation vehicles that are powered by the internal combustion engine (ICE). Such an effort comes at a critical time in the Nation’s history as our energy security and economic well-being demands that oil consumption be reduced.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 8, 2009

But Exxon/Mobil had no such money problems. “We’ve had one record profit quarter after another,&# said a spokesperson for the oil company. In Torrance we don’t want citizens telling politicians what to do or controlling how the industries that pollute in own city act. That’s too much democracy for Torrance.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

The discussions focused primarily on the issues of climate change and global energy security, but also covered global air quality-related emissions standards, improved fuel quality and specifications for renewable fuels.

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Manufacturer Global Emissions Engine 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its latest set of proposed standards to reduce emissions of methane and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the oil and natural gas industry. The proposal also includes incentives to spur the oil and gas industry to minimize leaks.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

So, I think it would be a better option to be a part of an organization that focuses on electric vehicles. #2 By reducing reliance on fossil fuels, EVs help to mitigate climate change and improve air quality. The absence of engine noise enhances the driving experience and reduces noise pollution in urban areas.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electric Electrical 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

The Ministry of Environmental Protection is planning a forcible emission standard for methanol-fueled light-duty vehicles, in which carbonyl pollution will be legislatively capped and the limit value is under discussion. Most recently, methanol-fueled prototypes are being tested in 3 provinces of China.

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Renewable Carbon Water Fuel 150

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. Better communication of oil- and gas-field best practices should be facilitated.

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MIT Gas Climate Gas-Electric 210

Creative Greenius

MAY 3, 2009

“Pack Up Your Toxic, Fossil Fuel Factory With Its Climate-Changing Products & Get Out of Town By 2020!&# Consider this fair and legal warning, world’s largest and most polluting oil company - I’m giving you 10 years to pack up and hit the road. Greenius Rules. Uncertainty.

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Pollution Gas Climate Change Carbon 292

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jenkins: Energy systems became globalized in the middle of the 20th century and then encountered global supply shocks, like the oil embargoes of the ’70s. All the things we don’t like about natural gas, whether it’s methane leaks or fracking or air pollution or CO 2 emissions, scale with how much gas we burn.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions 104

Get Electric Vehicle

JULY 30, 2022

In the case of India, the cost of oil imports, rising pollution, and international pledges to combat global climate change are the most important driving factors of the country’s investment in this shift to electric mobility. We all are aware of the paradigm shift happening in the global automotive industry.

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Industrial Industry Electric Vehicles Vehicles 40

EV Connect

AUGUST 8, 2022

Background on the ISO 15118 Protocols ISO 15118 — also called “Road Vehicles — Vehicle to Grid Communication Interface” — is a joint project between the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) that began in 2010. Despite our dependence on electricity, the U.S.

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