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Study links ambient PM2.5 and ozone specifically caused by vehicle exhaust emissions to ~361,000 premature deaths worldwide in 2010 and ~385,000 in 2015

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and ozone deaths, associated mortality rates, and population in G20 economies in 2015. and ozone worldwide in 2010 and ~385,000 in 2015, equivalent to 11.7% and ozone premature deaths in 2010 and 11.4% and ozone concentrations from transportation emissions resulted in 7.8 Transportation-attributable PM 2.5 Together, PM 2.5

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Portable sensors enable monitoring of pollution on smart phones; inferring pollution maps with greater granularity

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Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have built a portable pollution sensors that transmit transmit their air quality readings to smart phones, allowing users to monitor air quality in real time. Boxes represent pollution reading locations during that window. Nikzad et al. Click to enlarge. —Nikzad et al.

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Ioniq 6 review; Supercharger cuts; Toyota and Ram fuel-cell trucks: The Week in Reverse

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Look for the same formula, potentially, in future pickups. BMW Vision Neue Klasse X concept BMW has started building a battery plant in Mexico that will provide more energy-dense cylindrical cells for longer range and faster charging in next-generation Neue Klasse EVs. population lives with unhealthy air.

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HEI ACES study of lifetime animal exposure to New Technology Diesel Engine exhaust finds no lung cancer

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The ACES results are expected to play an important role in future risk reviews of diesel engines by international and US agencies. Jacob McDonald, of Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the exposures were carried out.

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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And it's already clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has sped up the arrival of the future along several dimensions. For example, when China entered world markets as a major exporter of industrial products, production from less productive firms in Mexico was reduced or ceased altogether, thus diverting resources to more productive uses.

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SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

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A few studies also include other relevant impact indicators as acidification potential, eutrophication potential, ozone depletion potential and various toxicity potentials. At the same time, LCA models need to be improved and further developed to treat future technologies with a minimized level of uncertainty. Howarth, R.W.,