Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2011

A large body of work shows that exposure to road traffic and air pollution may be a trigger of adverse cardiovascular events such as angina, myocardial infarction, and heart failure, with long-term exposure increasing the lifetime risk of death from coronary heart disease.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2015

The first study to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of lifetime exposure to new technology diesel exhaust (NTDE)—i.e., exhaust from heavy-duty diesel engines meeting EPA 2007 and later emissions requirements—has found no evidence of carcinogenic lung tumors. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) —ACES report.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2023

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing amendments to the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for taconite iron ore processing plants that include new emission standards for mercury as well as revising the existing emission standards for hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride. formaldehyde).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2016

the criteria pollutants and CO 2 that emerge with the exhaust from the tailpipe. However, there is more than 15 years of research showing that the contribution of non-exhaust primary particles to the total traffic generated primary particles is significant in urban areas. Further, a 2013 review by Denier van der Gon et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In 2012, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is part of the World Health Organization (WHO), classified diesel engine exhaust (DEE) as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1). Earlier post.). Our estimates suggest that stringent occupational and environmental standards for DEE should be set. —Vermeulen et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Results of a study funded and released by the California Air Resources Board (ARB) suggest that the organic constituents of ultrafine PM (UFP, particles ? technology for the removal of the organic constituents as well as the reduction of the number of particles. PM comprises solid, liquid, and semi-volatile organic components.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2020

The ZEV program requires an increasing percentage of new vehicle sales of to be zero emission vehicles; this is achieved by requiring vehicle manufacturers to meet minimum credit requirements through a combination of sales of zero emission vehicles and vehicles deploying zero emission technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2017

The findings of a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, with colleagues at UC Berkeley, suggest that changing atmospheric NO x levels over the next two decades will likely significantly reduce the effectiveness of stricter new gasoline vehicle emissions standards in reducing concentrations of secondary organic aerosol (SOA).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2017

Based on a three-year study of toxic and environmentally relevant pollutants from gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines, Swiss researchers have concluded that some GDI engines emit just as many soot particles as unfiltered diesel cars did in the past. Further, the GDI particles carry numerous carcinogenic substances. —Norbert Heeb.

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Engine Exhaust Gasoline Diesel 271

Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2019

The direct gas injection system assures lower methane emissions from the tailpipe exhaust. This engine technology is only available for large low-speed engines used in ocean-going vessels (OGVs). These dual-fueled engines provide similar performance to diesel engines with no power loss, although with higher NO x emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2014

Deaths from outdoor air pollution by region in 2005 and 2010. Outdoor air pollution kills some 3.5 million people across the world every year, and causes health problems from asthma to heart disease for many more, according to data collected by the World Health Organization (WHO). Outdoor air pollution kills some 3.5

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Pollution Transportation Emissions India 218

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2014

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced funding for a new joint research projects to advance clean emission technologies. Funding through the organizations’ Connecting through Research Partnerships (“Connect”) program has been granted for $125,000 for this project.

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San Antonio Exhaust Clean Emissions Fuel Economy 287

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. This system could be retrofitted to existing lean- burn engines or as a new engine technology. Selection amount: $3,257,089).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

Several organizations, encompassing companies, research labs, and academia, have formed the Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group. —James Turner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). ID-Technologies, Fribourg, Switzerland.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2017

These fuel economy levels are achieved based on a sustained 4%–6% annual reduction of fuel use per mile with incremental technology additions that do not compromise vehicle size or utility at an incremental cost of $800–$1,300 from 2025 to 2030. It incorporates subsequent industry research and new modeling of advanced vehicle technologies.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2015

The Summary will be the synopsis and final publication from the program to characterize the emissions and assess the health effects of new-technology diesel exhaust (NTDE) from heavy-duty diesel engines that meet the 2007 and 2010 regulations enacted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Earlier post.)

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Diesel 2007 2010 Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Approximately 9,000 people in California are estimated to die prematurely each year as a result of exposure to fine particle pollution, according to a new report issued by the California Air Resources Board (ARB). Fine particle pollution, smaller than 2.5 A causal relationship indicates the highest level of scientific certainty.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2014

The claim that emissions from diesel engine exhausts from road transport are the main cause of lung cancer in humans thus “ needs to be seriously challenged, ” the paper concluded. —“Diesel Engines Exhausts: Myths and Realities”. Thus to improve the quality of air around us more attention must be given to the primary PM emitters.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Issues covered in the briefing include emissions, air pollution, noise and renewable energy and the impact of transport on ecosystems and biodiversity. It also continues to be a significant source of harmful air pollution, especially through emissions of nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter. Air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Based on on-road measurements in their study, a team from the University of California Berkeley has estimated that, as of 2010, light-duty (LD) gasoline vehicles were responsible for 85% of CO; 18% of NO x ; 18% of organic aerosol (OA); and 6% of black carbon (BC) emissions from on-road motor vehicles in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The project is one of 42 totaling $80 million awarded by the DOE to support advanced vehicles technologies research. We anticipate that adding BA to diesel fuel will reduce pollutants and costs associated with meeting environmental regulations. The organisms sense the properties of the microenvironments created using MNE.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2015

Haagen-Smit Clean Air Awards are given annually to individuals who have made significant lifetime contributions toward improving air quality and climate change science, technology and policy, furthering the protection of public health. Arie Haagen-Smit—known as the “father” of air pollution science and control. Dr. Kirk R.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

Photo by Jeremy Thompson on Flickr Disney’s Autopia ride has been making headlines recently, after a park spokesperson told the LA Times that the park is “evaluating technology that will enable us to convert from gas engines in the next few years.” Until 2016, Autopia vehicles were noisy, polluting two-stroke engines.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2019

The new technology saves up to 20% fuel in typical passenger car low load operating conditions. The valve train is the “respiratory organ” of combustion engines: it manages the aspiration of fresh air and the discharge of exhaust gases (gas exchange). The mixture is combusted almost without pollution. Image: Empa.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2014

The findings were published in the ACS journal Environmental Science and Technology. These new compounds were not previously known to exist, and raise additional concerns about the health impacts of heavily-polluted urban air or dietary exposure. Staci Simonich.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2011

Emerging technologies and pollutants of concern. However, the report—“The Future of Vehicle Fuels and Technologies: Anticipating Health Benefits and Challenges”—also identifies a number of potential unintended health consequences that could arise from use of these fuels and technologies and need investigation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Researchers at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) have developed a new hybrid reactor for automotive exhaust aftertreatment that combines plasma and a honeycomb-structured monolith catalyst resulting in an enhanced synergistic effect of low-temperature catalytic activity. Especially in the automobile industry, the plasma?catalyst

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2014

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the Second Integrated Urban Air Toxics Report to Congress—the final of two reports required under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to inform Congress of progress in reducing public health risks from urban air toxics (also referred to as hazardous air pollutants or HAPs).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Canadian Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced developments on three new regulatory initiatives to further support Canada’s efforts to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to provide cleaner air through lower air pollutant emissions from cars and trucks. GHG regulations. billion and cumulative net benefits for Canadians of $4.7

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The Clean Air Act (CAA) allows areas such as these (designated and classified as “extreme” nonattainment under the CAA) to rely on the development and implementation of new and improved technologies given the relatively long time between SIP development and attaining clean air. Children and the elderly are most impacted by ozone pollution.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

An open-access paper on the study has been accepted for publication in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. However, the impact of these changes in HDDV exhaust emissions on ambient atmospheric pollutant concentrations and, more importantly, on human health outcomes across Canada have not been evaluated.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Many school districts use diesel buses for fuel efficiency, but even diesel exhaust was classified as a known carcinogen to humans in 2012. NIEHS goes on to say that air pollution is also linked to cancers, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other disorders.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 16, 2024

In demonstrations, including one last summer at National Renewable Energy Lab facilities in Colorado, the truck proved capable of driving 290-kilometers, then taking on the roles of power plant, mobile command center, and (courtesy of the truck’s “exhaust”) supplier of clean drinking water.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

million to 34 small businesses to develop innovative, sustainable technologies to protect human health and the environment. EPA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program was established to ensure that new technologies are developed to solve priority environmental problems.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2012

Their findings are published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. PAHs are a class of organic compounds produced by incomplete. organic substances are exposed to high temperatures or pressures. Non-exhaust traffic sources of particles. Automobile tire rubber in general consists of approximately 40?60%

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2013

One consideration is the impact of ethanol content on tailpipe emissions of NO x , volatile organic compounds (VOC), CO, and particulate matter (PM) and hence on urban air quality. Engine-out exhaust contains typically 1?3% 3% unburned or partially burned organic fuel components. 99% of these organic compounds.23.

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Emissions Ford Exhaust Engine 294

Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2017

It has been a challenge to determine how much each polluter contributes to the emission output. However, the amount of pollutant emissions that vehicles emit on a daily basis depends on numerous factors, for example on individual driving behavior. We record 36,000 data points per hour. —Thomas Karl.

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