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MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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Researchers from MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment have concluded that ground-level PM 2.5 2000 (90% CI: 0–4,000) early deaths from ozone, according to the study. The researchers collected data from the year 2005, the most recent data available at the time of the study. Source: MIT. Click to enlarge.

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USGS/BOEM study identifies method to differentiate between natural seepage and produced oils in waters off Southern California

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The report— Biomarker Chemistry and Flux Quantification Methods for Natural Petroleum Seeps and Produced Oils, Offshore Southern California —covers a joint USGS and BOEM 10-year series of studies of natural oil seeps mainly from the Santa Barbara Channel west of Los Angeles, California. —Lorenson et al.

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Researchers identify new nitrated PAH compounds from combustion that are hundreds of times more mutagenic than parent PAHs

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PAHs form naturally as the result of almost any type of combustion, from a wood stove to an automobile engine, cigarette or a coal-fired power plant. This study found that the direct mutagenicity of the NPAHs with one nitrogen group can increase 6 to 432 times more than the parent compound. Staci Simonich. Dashwood, and Staci L.

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Developing standards for EV charging reliability

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As one of its first initiatives, Sustainable Mobility Solutions has published “ Electric Vehicle Charging Data Performance & Reporting ,” a detailed study of charging failures and a set of proposals for evaluating those failures and finding solutions. It’s a super-important area. We’re working with a company called ChargerHelp !

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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Study complex material structures on the nanoscale to identify key features for their potential use as materials to convert solar energy and heat to electricity. Discover, understand, and control efficient chemical pathways for the conversion of coal and biomass into chemicals and fuels. Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The last official UNFCCC meeting prior to the 15 th Congress ended 6 November in Barcelona, and environment ministers have been shuttling in and out of Copenhagen since then to conduct ad hoc negotiations prior to the summit. ” —British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, summing up the historical significance of COP 15.

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The Solangelist’s Vision Shines Brighter

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And just like Woody, I’d like to sing you a song about a better way… My friends, with greenhouse gas emissions already in the danger zone, we needed to stop burning Killer Coal yesterday. Perhaps one of my many readers who work for the City of Torrance or the County of Los Angeles wants to pick that torch up and run with it.