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MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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Researchers from MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment have concluded that ground-level PM 2.5 Steven Barrett, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, and colleagues have published their results in the journal Atmospheric Environment. Source: MIT. Click to enlarge. —Caiazzo et al.

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CMU study finds that coal retirement is needed for EVs to reduce air pollution

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Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. UC stands for uncontrolled charging and CC stands for controlled charging.

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Study finds vehicles more important source of urban atmospheric ammonia than farms

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Vehicle tailpipes are a more important source of ammonia’s contribution to urban air pollution than is agriculture, according to a study by researchers from the US and China. Wallace and Hu Jun Leong of Rice University; M. and Tong Zhu of Peking University.

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Summer Update

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They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. Additionally, other local governments and state agencies are joining the coalition.

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How Roboticists Can Tackle Climate Change

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They use this data to monitor river pollution and rein in pollution sources. I want to build more robots that improve the environment we live in. SS MAPR prepares for its maiden voyage on the Schuylkill River, in Philadelphia. To this day, it remains the most exciting project I’ve ever worked on.