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EPA’s unused emissions proposal proper step

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of nationwide greenhouse gasoline emissions, worsening weather exchange and native air pollution. In Michigan, climate-induced drought stresses the environment’s annual $100 billion agriculture business. Business automobiles are accountable for nearly 7 p.c Motion is had to struggle those warnings.

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UMD-led study finds China’s SO2 emissions down 75% since 2007, India’s up 50%; India may now be the top SO2 emitter

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Sulfur dioxide is an air pollutant that causes acid rain, haze and many health-related problems. Illustration: Chris McLinden, Environment and Climate Change Canada. This suggests that China is implementing sulfur dioxide controls beyond what climate modelers have taken into account. Click to enlarge.

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Study: Reducing Future Transportation CO2 Emissions to Kyoto Protocol Levels Will Require Combination of Vehicle Technology and Smart Growth

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A Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning study on climate change concludes that “smart growth” combined with the use of hybrid vehicle technology could reduce cities’ carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions significantly by 2050. Paul, Minnesota; Cincinnati, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and Dayton, Ohio.

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Yale study finds that organic aerosols more complicated than previously thought

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Yale researchers have found that organic aerosols—a type of air pollution—are much more complicated than previous studies indicated. Collected over three weeks at each site in the summer, samples were taken from a forest in Michigan, and from urban environments in Atlanta and New York City. —Ditto et al.

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ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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University of Michigan. The University of Michigan team aims to develop a new type of battery separator that can effectively prevent rather than block the formation of dendrites. Battery Separator for Completely Stopping Dendrite - $950,000. UC Berkeley.

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Comedy CAFE Clowns Crack Me Up

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They sold out our climate so they could line their pockets and they’ve still got their hands out of their limo windows. I’ve visited Michigan dozens of times in the last 20 years and I never met a single US Auto worker who cared one whit about the greenhouse gases they’re responsible for.

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The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly

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The introduction of any new system causes perturbations within the current operating environment, which in turn, create behavioral responses, some predictable, many not. The perturbations caused by transitioning EVs to scale are not market-driven, but government policy-driven to meet a climate-emergency.