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12 ways the megabill hurts EV adoption

Plug in America

More efficient vehicles save drivers hundreds of dollars each year in fuel costs and directly reduce tailpipe pollution and climate-changing emissions. These pollutants disproportionately affect the health of people living in lower-income neighborhoods and communities of color.

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World Engineering Day Focuses on Shaping a Sustainable Future

Cars That Think

Furthermore, air and water pollution, deforestation, and soil degradation are causing significant harm. Air pollution kills about 7 million people annually, with 99 percent of the global population breathing unhealthy air, according to the World Health Organization. One-third of the planets land is already severely damaged.

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In Argentina, a Boom in Antarctic Cruises Is Straining the ‘End of the World’

Baua Electric

But its also taxing resources, raising the cost of living and contributing to a housing shortage for workers. Many tourists will spend a night or two in town before or after their cruise, some choosing an Airbnb over a room at one of the citys mostly humble hotels. The remoteness, Ushuaias biggest selling point, only makes the strain worse.

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EPA Wants New Rules For EVs Using Carpool Lanes

The Truth About Cars

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to restrict FHWA HOV lane funds to those states federally mandated to reduce air pollution and allowed these states to include HOV lanes in their state implementation plans. vehicle policy for years by creating regulations more stringent than the already stiff federal emission rules.

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Emissions Analytics finds pollution from tire wear can be 1,000x worse than exhaust emissions

Green Car Congress

Pollution from tire wear can be 1,000 times worse than a car’s exhaust emissions, Emissions Analytics has found. Emissions Analytics is an independent global testing and data specialist for the scientific measurement of real-world emissions and fuel efficiency for passenger and commercial vehicles and non-road mobile machinery.

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SwRI engineers develop near-zero emissions diesel engine technology; 90% reduction of NOx

Green Car Congress

Southwest Research Institute engineers have developed the next generation of clean diesel engine technology to reduce hazardous nitrogen oxides (NO x ) and carbon dioxide emissions while minimizing fuel consumption. g/hp-hr NO x emissions). SwRI developed the technology for the California Air Resources Board (CARB).

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Achates opposed-piston 3-cylinder 10.6L diesel emissions meet 2027 EPA, CA requirements

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opposed-piston heavy-duty diesel engine has achieved performance results that comply with pending 2027 requirements of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California to reduce sharply emissions of nitrogen oxides (NO x ). Achates Power’s innovative 3-cylinder, 10.6L Furthermore, the 10.6L Earlier post.).

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