Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The auxiliary engines covered under this regulation power the electricity and other onboard operations during a vessel’s visit, which can run from less than one day to several days. Half of the funds will be paid to the Air Pollution Control Fund, and the company agreed to comply with all regulatory requirements.

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Ozone Fleet Mariner Pollution 321

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MARCH 1, 2011

will pay a civil penalty of $2 million to resolve claims that the company imported and sold nearly 80,000 nonroad engines and equipment from China that did not meet standards under the Clean Air Act. The engines and equipment were sold to businesses and individuals through Wood Sales Company Inc. and Tool Mart, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

will pay a civil penalty of $2 million to resolve claims that the company imported and sold nearly 80,000 nonroad engines and equipment from China that did not meet standards under the Clean Air Act. The engines and equipment were sold to businesses and individuals through Wood Sales Company Inc. and Tool Mart, Inc.

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Clean Cleaning District of Columbia Standards 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Advanced ignition technologies, such as those offered by TPS, have been widely recognized as enablers to achieving higher combustion efficiency and lower emissions for gasoline-powered engines. In particular, TPS technology offers a groundbreaking approach to reducing emissions from combustion engines and improving the environment.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2021

Power management company Eaton has introduced a complete suite of solutions from its Vehicle Group to reduce vapor emissions produced during the refueling of gasoline-powered vehicles. This leakage occurs in all gasoline-powered vehicles, including passenger cars and an increasing number of small- and mid-sized commercial vehicles.

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Eaton Emissions Gasoline-Electric Production 221

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The company will also extend the warranty period for certain parts in the repaired vehicles, perform projects to mitigate excess ozone-creating nitrogen oxides (NO x ) emitted from the vehicles, and implement new internal audit procedures designed to prevent future emissions cheating. million in other penalties.

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District of Columbia Emissions Diesel Mercedes 286

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The worst days left me woozy as my lone air purifier, whirring like a jet engine, failed to keep up. Ionization can itself create ozone. The state of California has banned such ozone generators entirely. Companies responded to this demand at 2021's all-digital Consumer Electronics Show. That problem is more difficult.

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Ozone Pollution Portland Neighborhood 83

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2013

Renault recently made public the findings of an internal study, published first in October 2011, detailing and comparing the lifecycle assessments (LCAs) of the battery-electric and two internal combustion engined versions (gasoline and diesel) of the Renault Fluence. Photochemical Ozone Creation Potential (kg Ethene equivalent).

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Li-ion Gasoline-Electric Ozone Diesel 364

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

Five technology paths for very-low-NO x and GHG emissions from heavy-duty natural gas engines. SoCalGas), showcases the technologies currently under development that could deliver near-zero-emission heavy-duty natural gas engines by the end of this decade. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. grams per brake horsepower-hour (g/bhp-hr).

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Climate Gas Emissions California 257

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The basic properties of thermoplastic polyurethanes include high scratch and abrasion resistance, high tensile strength, very good cushioning, high flexibility at cold temperatures, and excellent resistance to oil, grease, oxygen and ozone. Wyandotte is BASF’s largest research and development site in the US Midwest.

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Ozone North America Polymer Michigan 210

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

During the first half of the 20th century, a number of companies manufactured and sold the machines, which became ubiquitous for a time. In May of that year, Tesla unveiled his wondrous invention to members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, during a. Ozone mode was for inhaling, to treat lung disorders.

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Oil Ozone Electric Electrical 89

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DECEMBER 21, 2013

Earlier this month, the Colorado Energy Office led an agreement among 29 large fleet owners including local governments, private sector companies, other public entities and members of the natural gas industry. These organizations committed to help accelerate the deployment of NGVs and accompanying fueling station infrastructure.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Meanwhile, environmentalists were voicing concern—about how noisy such aircraft are taking off, about the possibility that their high-altitude emissions would erode the ozone layer, and about how disruptive the sonic booms would be. Despite strong support from the FAA, the airline industry, and aerospace companies, the U.S.

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Oklahoma City Ozone Oklahoma Fuel 109

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FEBRUARY 5, 2022

But, noted Mr. Rotberg, “if we didn’t do it that way we’d be instructing the vector generator to draw lines past where it could, and it would go off into the ozone.” A company under contract to the Army to find training uses for video games approached Atari just as Battlezone was going into production, Mr. Rotberg said.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Vehicle fleets across the United States are transitioning from internal combustion engine (ICE) to electric vehicles, and that includes school bus fleets. This number includes buses that have been awarded, ordered, delivered, or are already in operation. Eliminating ICE buses will go a long way toward making schools healthier for students.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For hospitals and medical centers with an ambulatory or EMS fleet, switching from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to EVs could save as much as 75% in fleet maintenance costs. Similarly, an IBM Institute for Business Value study found that 67% of respondents preferred to apply for jobs at companies with sustainable endeavors.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The new report highlights a number of important accomplishments which have occurred since the earlier NRC reviews: The engine systems Goal 1 of a 50% brake thermal efficiency (BTE) for an emissions compliant engine has been achieved. A pathway to achieve 55% is being developed. These new targets need to be set for the research efforts.

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MPG Miles 2009 Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, is partnering with Google Earth Outreach to map and better to understand urban air quality. Data points are continually evaluated by Aclima’s proprietary algorithmic calibration engine to ensure data quality. Aclima, Inc.,

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Google San Francisco Denver Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2018

Alternative-fuel technology company ROUSH CleanTech has developed the first available propane autogas engine certified to California Air Resources Board’s (CARB’s) optional low oxides of nitrogen emissions standard for heavy-duty engines with 0.02 g/bhp-hr heavy-duty engine standard. g/bhp-hr heavy-duty engine standard.

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Engine Cleaner Ozone Emissions 225

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The government assisted the shift by giving sugar companies subsidized loans to build ethanol plants, as well as guaranteeing prices for their ethanol products. Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead.

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Transportation Fuel Renewable Gasoline-Electric 317

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

The Alzeta Corporation of California will partner with LBNL to destroy effluents from semiconductor processing that could potentially harm the ozone layer in a project titled “Improving Gas Reactor Design With Complex Non-Standard Reaction Mechanisms in a Reactive Flow Model.”. Harper International Corp.

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Manufacturer EPRI Lithium Sulfur Carbon Fiber 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Black carbon is part of a group of pollution sources known as Short-Lived Climate Forcers (SLCFs), including methane gas and ozone, which are produced on earth. Cappa, a professor of engineering at the University of California, Davis, and Timothy B. Earlier post.). Led by principal investigators Christopher D.

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Climate Climate Change Carbon Boston 261

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JULY 24, 2020

The program will demonstrate that a suite of commercially available, EPA-rail-certified engines present a near-term, low-risk solution to create an affordable RNG hybrid line-haul locomotive with near zero emissions while simultaneously improving fuel cost by 50%. OptiFuel’s OFS12 engine is EPA-rail-certified with emissions of 0.00

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Grant Hybrid Ozone EPA 243

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

Through a combination of state and federal regulations, incentive funding, binding agreements and voluntary actions by the railroad companies, California will see dramatic reductions in their airborne emissions, between 50-80%, depending on the individual rail yard, as early as 2015. NO x helps create ground-level ozone, or smog.

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Diesel California Emissions 2007 170

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JULY 20, 2021

A scholarly literature has documented this process in fields as diverse as engineering, risk reduction, management, and urban studies. Since this legislation was introduced, a number of companies have faced heavy fines, including British Airways, which in 2018 was fined £183 million for poor security arrangements following a cyberattack.

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Chad London Iceland Ozone 98

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2015

This project, to which Volkswagen contributes along with companies such as UPS, repairs and preserves a ~24,000-acre native redwood forest, increasing carbon sequestration and storage, while also helping to restore the natural wildlife habitat. ozone depletion potential (ODP). photochemical ozone creation potential.

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Carbon Personal Store Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

One key issue that the Waxman-Markey discussion draft does not address is how to allocate the tradable emission allowances that restrict the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from electric utilities, oil companies, and other sources. heavy duty on-road vehicles, off-road vehicles, locomotives, marine and aviation engines.

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Climate Standards Carbon California 186

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MAY 5, 2016

This is the first large-scale demonstration of zero-emission Class 8 trucks that involves major manufacturers, including BYD, Kenworth, Peterbilt (both Paccar companies) and Volvo. Volvo will be deploying a plug-in hybrid electric diesel truck under the Mack brand. Earlier post.).

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Peterbilt Kenworth California BYD 150

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

But rather than giving into despair, some engineers, policymakers, and activists are pursuing a novel strategy. In the stratosphere, in particular, they’re concerned about the health of the ozone layer and also how this might trap heat in the stratosphere in ways that changes the way that the atmosphere works.

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Climate IDEA Mariner Carbon 71

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2018

Dow Chemical Company will partner with SNL to reduce the thermal conductivity of insulating foam polyurethane products while using less polymer in its products in a project titled “Predictive Modeling of Polyurethane Foam Processes to Optimize Thermal Performance and Reduce Waste”. Transient Plasma Systems Inc.

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Manufacturer Batteries Battery Ozone 170

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2010

A research team from Ford Motor Company and the University of Copenhagen has performed a systematic study of the vapor pressures of single and dual-blends of different alcohols with potential to be used as biofuels, including methanol; ethanol; 1- and 2-propanol; and 1-, 2-, i -, and t -butanol. Credit: ACS, Andersen et al. Click to enlarge.

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Alcohol Blend Gasoline Ozone Fuel 210

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Take, for example, the tens of thousands of fossil-fueled ships that chug across the ocean, spewing plumes of pollutants that contribute to acid rain, ozone depletion, respiratory ailments, and global warming. Kate Murphy leads the engineering effort for the MCB project at PARC, the Xerox research lab in Silicon Valley. That's where.

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