Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings. Transportation. Background.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2012
The connection between changes in the Arctic Ocean’s ice cover and bromine chemical processes is determined by the interaction between the salt in sea ice, frigid temperatures and sunlight. Bromine also can remove ozone from the lowest layer of the atmosphere, the troposphere. —Son Nghiem.
Green Car Congress
MAY 28, 2010
Although separate programs are in place to research and manage both air quality and climate change effects, these problems are not separate and in fact are intimately connected. The complex roles that ozone and aerosols play in the atmosphere provide examples of such trade-offs. 2010 CalNex Science and Implementation Plan.
Green Car Congress
JULY 11, 2013
Photochemical Ozone Creation Potential (kg Ethene equivalent). Quantifies the production of pollutant ozone (? to ozone layer), the results of the reaction of sunlight on NO x and volatile organic compounds. Characterizes the acid substances increase (NO x , SO 2.) in lower atmosphere, source of acid rains and forests depletion.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 9, 2009
In order to effectively mitigate environmental impacts from transportation modes, life-cycle environmental performance should be considered including both the direct and indirect processes and services required to operate the vehicle. The study was published 8 June in the open access IOP journal Environmental Research Letters.
Plugs and Cars
JULY 19, 2007
Simply put, the study found what advocates of electric transportation have long held to be true: as regards greenhouse gases and pollution generally speaking, the worst electricity is still better than petroleum. And the grid is getting cleaner and more renewable every year.
Green Car Congress
MAY 3, 2016
California agency leaders released the Draft California Sustainable Freight Action Plan , an ambitious document that lays a foundation for modernizing California’s multi-billion dollar freight transportation system. Improve freight system efficiency 25% by 2030. Foster future economic growth within the freight and goods movement industry.
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