Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

In a new study published online 10 March in the ACS journal Environmental Science and Technology , however, Stanford University professor Mark Jacobson finds that local CO 2 emissions in isolation may increase local ozone and particulate matter. his study contradicts that assumption. As in real estate, location matters.”.

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Ozone Los Angeles Pollution CO2 218

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2012

CO2 ratio for this flight track segment decreased from 24.5 In California’s Los Angeles Basin, levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) pollutants have decreased by about 98% since the 1960s, even as area residents now burn approximately three times as much gasoline and diesel fuel. ppbv/ppmv to 10.7 Source: Warneke et al.

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Los Angeles Gasoline Ozone 2002 285

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2009

Because eliminating BC emissions almost immediately removes atmospheric BC whereas eliminating CO 2 emissions removes atmospheric CO2 over only many decades, eliminating BC can immediately slow down the loss of Arctic ice, whereas eliminating GHG emissions can slow loss only over a longer period. F, with about 40% due to ozone.

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Carbon EPA Pollution Ozone 150