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MAY 3, 2023

announced that its subsidiary SoCal Biomethane will supply renewable natural gas (RNG) as facilitated by renewable fuels marketer Anew Climate to FuelCell Energy’s Tri-gen system to produce carbon-negative hydrogen and electricity for Toyota Motor North America, Inc.’s Anaergia Inc.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The leaders of the world have just returned from the UN's latest climate change summit, COP26 , in which the countries that have signed on to the Paris Agreement upped their commitments to fight climate change. C by the year 2100 , according to Climate Action Tracker. C above pre-industrial levels. In 2015, the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Comparison of the potential reduction in emissions with the application of lower sulfur 0.5% 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.

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MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 23, 2014

Mexico’s Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) has proposed new heavy-duty vehicle emissions standards, aligned with current standards in place in the rest of North America and in the European Union. Heavy-duty diesel emissions standards in the US, European Union, and Mexico. Source: ICCT.

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APRIL 4, 2011

Climate response to non-CO 2 vehicle emissions. vehicle emissions under the baseline scenario (a) and the difference between the tight-standard and baseline scenarios (b). Bars on the right show uncertainty ranges for 2070, including contributions from both forcing and climate sensitivity (67%; CI). Shindell et al.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Ozone levels across much of North America and Europe dropped significantly between 2000 and 2014. In some parts of Asia, Africa and South America, the researchers identified data gaps which prevented them from characterizing ozone pollution exposure patterns. Source: University of Leicester. Click to enlarge. Owen Cooper.

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JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. 50% clean power target.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

“The buses operating out of this base will serve surrounding south King County communities, where air pollution levels are higher than in other parts of the region.” Source: GILLIG The post GILLIG to supply Seattle transit agency with up to 395 battery-electric buses – Charged EVs appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley electric school bus Source: Daimler Truck North America The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced nearly $1 billion in grant funding for electric school buses across the US – enough for more than 2,700 clean buses. You can see which school districts are receiving funding here.

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APRIL 30, 2015

issued an executive order (B-30-15) to establish a California greenhouse gas reduction target of 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most aggressive GHG reduction target enacted by any government in North America to reduce GHG emissions over the next decade and a half.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its initial draft plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most ambitious target in North America. Managing farm and rangelands, forests and wetlands so they can store carbon. Source: 2030 Target Scoping Plan Discussion Draft.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Most comprehensive climate package in U.S. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is a massive climate, health care, and tax bill with the overarching goal of slowing the rise in consumer prices that have been climbing at the fastest pace in approximately 40 years. has a free trade agreement, or with materials recycled in North America.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

However, the resulting low gas prices, as well as clean air and climate policies, will promote further switching to gas from other more polluting energy sources, such as oil and coal. Clean hydrogen could abate up to 37% of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions, according to BNEF estimates.

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AUGUST 2, 2012

Population-Weighted Multi Pollutant Index (PW-MPI) values for different regions. Even though air quality will deteriorate further in North America and Europe, in 2050 it will be significantly better than that experienced by the global average citizen. Effects of business-as-usual anthropogenic emissions on air quality Atmos.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

The NFI Group has over 50 years of experience in manufacturing zero-emission buses (ZEBs). The cap-and-trade program also creates a financial incentive for industries to invest in clean technologies and develop innovative ways to reduce pollution. million passengers per year.

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JANUARY 21, 2017

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released the proposed scoping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most ambitious target in North America. million zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) on the roads; increase ZEV buses, delivery and other trucks. Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Vehicle OEMs are investing large sums to advance the transition to electric vehicles, even as they lobby governments to water down the emissions regulations that are forcing that transition. The pursuit of contradictory goals is a basic fact of human nature, and the commercial truck industry is no exception.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This project is being done with NFI, another supply chain and logistics company which operates across much of North America, in cooperation with Electrify America and Southern California Edison. As a result, the area is heavily polluted, with logistics traffic being a major contributor. No diesel trucks on this property.

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Los Angeles Long Beach Charging Pollution 52

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2012

Geographical distributions of global BC emissions from motor vehicles in 1976 (A) and 2006 (B). Researchers at Peking University have developed a new methodology to model black carbon (BC) emissions from diesel and gasoline motor vehicles. An earlier global BC emission inventory by Bond et al. Credit: ACS, Wang et al.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Global sulfur dioxide emissions by region. Sulfur aerosols impact human health, ecosystems, agriculture, and global and regional climate. While the overall global uncertainty in sulfur dioxide emissions is relatively small, regional uncertainties ranged up to 30%. Emissions were distributed on a 0.5° Credit: Smith et al.

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JUNE 6, 2013

SAS involves dozens of other domestic and international research institutions, and is one of the largest North American air quality and climate studies in decades. SOAS objectives include the direct quantification of VOC, ozone and NO x surface fluxes and the reconciliation of differences with “blank-down” emission estimates.

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JUNE 14, 2016

The annual awards recognize landmark green chemistry technologies developed by industrial pioneers and leading scientists that turn climate risk and other environmental problems into business opportunities, spurring innovation and economic development. It also reduces atmospheric nitrous oxide emissions. on 13 June. million kg/year.

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JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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AUGUST 23, 2010

trillion is spent annually on transport globally, mostly in ways that exacerbate rather than solve the problems associated with traffic growth, including congestion, health-harming air pollution, accidents, energy insecurity, and climate change. Transportation is central to the social and economic activity of people across the world.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Finally Takes Off in North America and Europe Battery makers around the world are cranking out lithium-ion batteries of various flavors as fast as they can. 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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MAY 10, 2011

Up to 77% of the world’s energy supply could be met by six key renewables by mid-century under the most optimistic scenario if backed by the right enabling public policies, according to a new report by more than 120 researchers working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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JANUARY 24, 2013

Volkswagen inaugurated its largest solar facility in the world—also the largest solar facility operated by an automaker in the US—at its plant in Chattanooga, TN, which produces the Passat model for North America. 25% less energy and water consumption, waste and emissions. We are German, and we are thorough.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Requirements for more aggressive emission after-treatment and the hardware to achieve that add cost and complexity for fleet operators. The far higher volumes of carbon dioxide per mile from heavy trucks make them an obvious target for zero-emission powertrains. Rising fuel-economy standards during the 2020s will do the same.

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Volvo Fleet Electric Electrical 131

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Plastics are on track to contribute more greenhouse gas emissions than coal plants in the US by 2030, according to new report by Beyond Plastics, a nationwide project based at Bennington College in Vermont. This report represents the floor, not the ceiling, of the US plastics industry’s climate impact. million tons of GHG each year.

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JANUARY 13, 2013

Comparison of Hg emissions in 2005 and 2010, by selected sector and region. Unintentional emission sectors: Coal burning, ferrous- and non-ferrous (Au, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn) metal production, cement production. Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry.

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AUGUST 9, 2012

Developed through the International Association of Ports & Harbors’ World Ports Climate Initiative, the ESI program is the first of its kind in North America and the Pacific Rim. Ocean going vessels (OGVs) are the single largest source of Southern California goods movement air emissions and they.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This project represents the largest single procurement of electric school buses in North America. The transition to electric school buses will deliver health and climate benefits for the community. Montgomery County Public Schools operates more than 200 schools and serves more than 160,000 students county-wide.

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MAY 4, 2012

The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners formally approved an Environmental Ship Index (ESI) program to take effect 1 July, becoming the first seaport in North America and the Pacific Rim to do so. Ship emissions are the single-largest source of air pollution from port-related operations. percent or less.

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Los Angeles North America Pollution Clean 218

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APRIL 29, 2016

Surface-level ozone is one of the main pollutants that the national Air Quality Index measures in its effort to let the public know when breathing outside for long periods of time could be harmful. They directly impact air quality across North America. —Eric Kort, first author. Ground-level ozone leads to poor air quality.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

GoinGreen was founded in 2002 with the mission to minimize the effects of climate change by encouraging carbon-neutral motoring. GoinGreen also fits perfectly with Green Automotive’s ambitions to develop its EV presence both in Europe and North America.

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JUNE 7, 2013

At an event in Sacramento, California, Volvo Trucks announced that it will commercialize dimethyl ether (DME)-powered heavy-duty commercial vehicles in North America, with limited production beginning in 2015. Oberon Fuels is the first company to announce plans to commercialize DME fuel production in North America.

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