Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. As legislation worked its way through Congress, Jenkins’s team provided elected officials, staffers, and stakeholders with a running tally of the possible trade-offs and payoffs in emissions, jobs, and economic growth.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions 129

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2020

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have conducted a statistical analysis of pollution exposure and yields from 1980 to 2015 on a key sector making up about 38% of the state’s total agricultural output: perennial crops such as almonds, grapes, nectarines, peaches, strawberries and walnuts.

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Ozone Davis San Diego Pollution 186

Baua Electric

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Timed perfectly to hit the news cycle at the end of Climate Week and just ahead of Drive Electric Week , the New York City Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice announced the formation of the NAECC in partnership with other C40 Cities like Austin, Texas, Boulder, Colorado, and San Diego and Long Beach, California (among others).

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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). The RCPs were chosen to represent a broad range of climate outcomes, based on a literature review. Scenario A2 and RCP 8.5.

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Ozone Climate Change Pollution Climate 199

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2016

JILA physicists and colleagues have identified a long-missing piece in the puzzle of exactly how fossil fuel combustion contributes to air pollution and a warming climate. JILA a partnership of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder. Their paper appears in Science.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Globally, commercial ships emit almost half as much particulate matter pollutants into the air as the total amount released by the world’s cars, according to a new study led by NOAA and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Ship pollutants affect local air quality and the health of people living along coastlines.

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Pollution Commercial Exhaust Cleaner 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

By including upstream emissions from fuels, GHG emissions from cities exceed those attributed to direct end-use by up to 24% (for Toronto). By including upstream emissions from fuels, the researchers found that GHG emissions attributable to cities exceed those from direct end use by up to 24%. Tonnes CO 2 e/capita.

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Emissions Global Gas Los Angeles 199

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% ” [ 1 ].

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Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions 236

Cars That Think

APRIL 16, 2024

Army Corps of Engineers Construction Research Lab Commercial truck and locomotive engine maker Cummins , which has pledged to make all its heavy-duty road and rail vehicles zero-emission by 2050, won a $1 million competitive award to build the H2Rescue, which gets its power from a hydrogen fuel cell that charges its lithium-ion batteries.

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Hydrogen Water Diesel Fuel 145

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2014

National and state regulators primarily use generic emission inventories to assess the climate, air quality, and health impacts of natural gas systems. These inventories rely on limited, incomplete, and sometimes outdated emission factors and activity data, based on few measurements, they found. —Moore et al. Moore et al.

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Gas Oil-Sands Emissions Oil 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2017

The San Jose area had the highest share at 10%, followed by other California areas (4% to 6%) and markets in Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington (2% to 4%). Overall, the share of new vehicles that are plug-in electric in these 50 areas is 1.2%, about 3 times the proportion in the rest of the United States.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Here’s How We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth Geoengineering—altering the planet to mitigate the worst effects of climate change—is an idea that has taken on new currency of late. We’ll still have to do the hard work of cutting carbon emissions, but geoengineering could be a way to buy us some time.

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Hydrogen Green Molten Salt China 113

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2017

Methane and black carbon (soot) are the second- and third-most powerful climate-warming agents after carbon dioxide. They also contribute to air pollution that harms the health of billions of people worldwide and reduces agricultural yields. Lead author Drew T. Resources. Shindell, N. Borgford-Parnell, M. Haines, J.C.I. Leonard, V.

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Pollution Climate Carbon Colombia 150

Plug in America

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Imagine a transportation option that has the fun and flexibility of a bike, is a fraction of the price of a car, can park almost anywhere for free, and produces almost zero climate-changing emissions. Another two-wheeled option for a different type of travel: zero-emission motorcycles. Another plus: no tailpipe pollution.

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Transportation Electric Motorcycles Motorcycles Gasoline-Electric 97

Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

However, aviation remains a new frontier for zero emissions. For small aircraft, like a trainer for example, what [George Bye] is doing with [Colorado e-aircraft manufacturer] Bye Aerospace, makes a lot sense. If you look at the climate impact of aviation, less than half of that is CO 2 , the rest of it is stuff like nitrogen oxide.

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Hydrogen Fuel San Francisco All-Electric 89

Teslarati

AUGUST 24, 2022

to ban the sale of new gasoline cars by 2035, requiring all new cars sold in the state after that year to be 100 percent free of fossil fuel emissions. 35 percent of new passenger vehicle sales in California must be of zero-emissions vehicles by 2026. Colorado is the most recent state to adopt CARB’s emissions standards.

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California Gasoline Sale Rhode Island 98

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention sponsors the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards in partnership with the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute and other members of the chemical community including industry, trade associations, academic institutions, and other government agencies.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The perturbations caused by transitioning EVs to scale are not market-driven, but government policy-driven to meet a climate-emergency. and especially California,” he says, “has come at the cost of exacerbating the air, water and soil pollution of Asian societies.”

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