Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that BP North America Inc. has agreed to pay an $8 million penalty and invest more than $400 million to install advanced pollution controls and cut emissions from BP’s petroleum refinery in Whiting, Ind. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Mexico’s Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) has proposed new heavy-duty vehicle emissions standards, aligned with current standards in place in the rest of North America and in the European Union. Heavy-duty diesel emissions standards in the US, European Union, and Mexico. Source: ICCT.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

The United States has filed and simultaneously settled a civil lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Motor North America Inc., The $180-million penalty is the largest civil penalty for violation of EPA’s emission-reporting requirements. For 10 years, Toyota routinely failed to comply with these reporting requirements.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2015

Leaded gasoline was a larger emission source of the toxic heavy metal lead than mining in South America, even though the extraction of metals from the region’s mines historically released huge quantities of lead into the environment, according to a study by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the University of Bern.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. 50% clean power target.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2020

Detailed high-resolution maps of urban change are crucial for studying greenhouse gas emissions, urban heat island effects, population exposure to extreme weather events and air pollution, land-use change dynamics, ecosystem carbon losses, urban sustainability and development pathways.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In California, Big Blue Bus (BBB) will receive $870,000 from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee’s (MSRC) Near Zero Engine Incentive Program. g/bhp-hr optional Near Zero NO x Emissions standards. g/bhp-hr optional Near Zero NO x Emissions standards. ISL G Near-Zero (NZ) 0.02 NO x engines. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Ideanomics’ Mobile Energy Group (MEG) is expanding its activities with heavy-duty electric trucks as part of an ongoing effort to identify commercial vehicle activities where significant pollution reduction can be achieved by eliminating fossil fuels.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The NFI Group has over 50 years of experience in manufacturing zero-emission buses (ZEBs). The cap-and-trade program also creates a financial incentive for industries to invest in clean technologies and develop innovative ways to reduce pollution. At least 35% of these investments are made in disadvantaged and low-income communities.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

EPA issued a second notice of violation ( NOV ) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) to Volkswagen AG, Audi AG and Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., alleging emissions cheating. This NOV is also being issued to Porsche AG and Porsche Cars North America. That testing led directly to the alleged violations covered under today’s NOV.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Ozone pollution near Earth’s surface is one of the main ingredients of summertime smog. These observations may also assist air quality managers in assessing the most effective approaches to emission reduction programs that will improve air quality.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2012

Geographical distributions of global BC emissions from motor vehicles in 1976 (A) and 2006 (B). Researchers at Peking University have developed a new methodology to model black carbon (BC) emissions from diesel and gasoline motor vehicles. An earlier global BC emission inventory by Bond et al. Credit: ACS, Wang et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

From 2019, Volkswagen Group Logistics will use two LNG-powered charter vessels from Siem Car Carriers AS, making it one of the first automakers to opt for low-emission LNG-powered vessels for the marine transport of vehicles. The Volkswagen Group is shouldering its responsibility for the environment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2014

According to the review by the discussion paper, 83% of particulate matter emissions in European Union countries and 97% in the US and Canada, are generated by other economic sectors—mainly the commercial, institutional and household sector.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 7, 2024

Concepts like ultra-low emission zones (ULEZ) and levering connected vehicle technologies to police driving from an environmental and social standpoint are rooted in the key principles of Vision Zero. Meanwhile, EVs will likely increase specific forms of air pollution (e.g. These are conservative estimates, he and his co-authors write.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

We were quite surprised to find that polycarbonate plastic biodegrades in the environment. This finding challenges the wide public belief that hard plastics remain unchanged in the environment for decades or centuries. Biodegradation, of course, releases BPA to the environment. Katsuhiko Saido. parts per million (ppm) to 50 ppm.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

If they meet all the pledges they've made for emission reductions by 2030, global temperature rise will be at 2.4° The first is the moral hazard argument: If we embark on this research, it will undermine attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. by spewing pollution into the air. How do you guys respond to that?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

BP Products North America Inc. has agreed to spend more than $161 million on pollution controls, enhanced maintenance and monitoring, and improved internal management practices to resolve Clean Air Act violations at its Texas City, Texas refinery. The company will also pay a $12 million civil penalty.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

Volkswagen inaugurated its largest solar facility in the world—also the largest solar facility operated by an automaker in the US—at its plant in Chattanooga, TN, which produces the Passat model for North America. 25% less energy and water consumption, waste and emissions. T5 fluorescents are use don the inside.).

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APRIL 21, 2010

million by using recycled materials, and diverted between 25 and 30 million pounds of plastic from landfills in North America alone. A 100% usage of recycled yarns can mean a 64% reduction in energy consumption and a 60% reduction in CO 2 emissions compared to the use of new yarns. Ford vehicles are now 85% recyclable by weight.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

Yadea now has a growing presence in Europe and has recently set its sights on a major expansion into North America. That doesn’t mean there isn’t polluting heavy industry in some areas, but modern factories like Yadea’s take great pains to reduce emissions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2010

trillion is spent annually on transport globally, mostly in ways that exacerbate rather than solve the problems associated with traffic growth, including congestion, health-harming air pollution, accidents, energy insecurity, and climate change. The report, A Paradigm Shift Towards Sustainable Low Carbon Transport , finds that more than $1.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2017

The interdisciplinary study, published in the journal Environmental Microbiology , has important implications for the treatment of infectious diseases, which are known to be increased in areas with high levels of air pollution. This work increases our understanding of how air pollution affects human health. Environ Microbiol.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Comparison of Hg emissions in 2005 and 2010, by selected sector and region. Unintentional emission sectors: Coal burning, ferrous- and non-ferrous (Au, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn) metal production, cement production. Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

The awards recognize pioneering chemical technologies developed by leading researchers and industrial innovators who are making significant contributions to pollution prevention in the United States. Also, the biobased BDO pathway consumes carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), resulting in a reduction of 70% in CO 2 emissions. billion by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A key area of growth for EVgo came from new partnerships with zero emissions fleet and rideshare programs, accounting for 10% of energy delivered to drivers on the network. million gallons of gasoline saved, corresponding to 9,000 metric tons of CO 2 emissions which would have otherwise polluted the environment.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The objections they raised for years -- "no one is interested, no one would plug in, the technology is too complex, the benefits are minimal, its just shifting the pollution from the tailpipe to the smokestack, theres no demand for these cars" -- still show up occasionally, but are by and large history. Bloomberg ).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2013

PAH trends similar to trends observed in remote lakes in north-central North America, where maximum PAH deposition typically occurred during the mid-20 th century and has declined toward modern times. The potential and realized emissions of pollutants, including greenhouse gases and mercury, are also contentious.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Several years back, Ford engaged in a modelling strategy to determine what it’s fleet fuel economy should be over time given a proportional contribution to achieving an atmospheric CO 2 concentration of 450 ppm, said Sue Cischke, Ford group vice president, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering.

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