Environment, Gas, Massachusetts and Pollution

New Jersey to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035

Teslarati

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Earlier this week, New Jersey officials announced plans to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. The state Department of Environment Protection announced that it will prohibit the sale of new gas-powered cars precisely on January 1, 2035. The gas car ban is New Jersey’s first step toward zero-emissions vehicles.

New Jersey

New Jersey Gas Rhode Island Sale

DOE awards $35M to 12 ARPA-E projects to reduce methane emissions; 5 on natural gas engines

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $35 million in funding for twelve projects focused on developing technologies to reduce methane emissions in the oil, gas, and coal industries. Natural Gas Engines. The system will significantly increase methane conversion efficiency and comply with future stringent nitrous oxide regulations.

Gas

Gas Emissions Engine Coal

Why Schools Should Electrify Their Bus Fleets

Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

While it’s obvious that the internal combustion engine vehicles are polluting the air outside the buses, what you may not know is that numerous studies show that the pollution from the burning diesel regularly makes its way into the buses. The more vehicles that switch to running on electricity, the better.

Fleet

Fleet Pollution Diesel Ozone

Lung Association report highlights health and climate costs of petroleum-based transportation and the benefits of shifting to ZEVs

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Under this scenario, the estimated total health and climate change costs associated with passenger vehicle fleet pollution drops from to $37 billion annually to $15.7 Annual pollution-related impacts drop by more than 85% due to fewer lost work days caused by pollution-related illnesses, fewer asthma attacks and fewer premature deaths.

Climate

Climate Cost Of Rhode Island Transportation

DOE to award ~$13.5M to 16 R&D projects for solid-oxide fuel cell technologies

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2018

SOFC technologies enable efficient, cost-effective electricity generation from abundant domestic coal and natural gas resources, with minimal use of water and near-zero atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and pollutants. Multi-Gas Sensors for Enhanced Reliability of SOFC Operation. Stack manufacturing and quality control.

Fuel

Fuel South Carolina Low Cost West Virginia

$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

Four teams of researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom recently were awarded more than $12 million to begin a program of novel research to revolutionize current farming methods by giving crops the ability to thrive without using costly, polluting artificial fertilizers. Golbeck, Penn State University; Christopher A.

St. Louis

St. Louis Design Washington Universal

Satellite method provides insight into ozone-NOx-VOCs sensitivity for different locations

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Ozone pollution near Earth’s surface is one of the main ingredients of summertime smog. Determining effective strategies for mitigating surface ozone (O 3 ) pollution requires knowledge of the relative ambient concentrations of its precursors, NO x , and VOCs.

Ozone

Ozone Insight Netherlands North America

EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District is replacing 48 trucks model year 1991-2003 with trucks powered by 2013 or newer model year engines. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is retrofitting 36 school buses with technologies to cut soot and reduce idling. Massachusetts. Delaware and Virginia.

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico EPA Clean Cleaning

Study Finds Ozone, Nitrogen Change the Way Rising CO2 Affects Earths Water

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2009

Plants consume carbon dioxide—a significant greenhouse gas—in the process of photosynthesis. Felzer and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., Plants that release less water also take less of it from the environment. Cronin, J.

Ozone

Ozone Water CO2 MIT

ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Argonne National Laboratory seeks to disrupt the steel industry by developing a potentially zero-carbon ironmaking process that eliminates the use of coke or natural gas and requires less energy than current processes. UC Berkeley. leadership in electric flight.

Clean

Clean Cleaning Energy Li-ion

Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius. The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius.

Prius

Prius Plug-in Plug Gasoline-Electric

Auto Lobby Says EPA Targets Aren’t Achievable

The Truth About Cars

JUNE 29, 2023

Updated guidance from the EPA has resulted in the most aggressive vehicle pollution standards the United States has seen so far. Under the Trump administration, the industry was given more leeway to manufacture gas-powered vehicles as aggressive fueling standards were walked back.

EPA

EPA Auto Tax Credit Industrial

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

Gas

Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

Gas War: U.S. House Suggests Ending California Emissions Authority, White House Says Nope

The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

While this has created an incredibly hazy regulatory environment at both the federal and state level under the Trump administration, Biden’s doesn’t seem to care due to being in broad alignment with the policies pushed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). percent of U.S. vehicles sold in 2022 that were EVs.

California

California Emissions Gas EPA

EV Driven

New Jersey to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035

DOE awards $35M to 12 ARPA-E projects to reduce methane emissions; 5 on natural gas engines

Why Schools Should Electrify Their Bus Fleets

Lung Association report highlights health and climate costs of petroleum-based transportation and the benefits of shifting to ZEVs

DOE to award ~$13.5M to 16 R&D projects for solid-oxide fuel cell technologies

$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

Satellite method provides insight into ozone-NOx-VOCs sensitivity for different locations

EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

Study Finds Ozone, Nitrogen Change the Way Rising CO2 Affects Earths Water

ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Auto Lobby Says EPA Targets Aren’t Achievable

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Gas War: U.S. House Suggests Ending California Emissions Authority, White House Says Nope

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