Gas-Electric, Organization and Pollution

New analysis suggests Uber adding significantly to pollution and traffic in European cities

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Uber is adding more polluting car trips to already-clogged European cities such as London and Paris, new analysis by European NGOs suggests —contributing to air pollution and climate change and exploding the company’s sustainability claims. Transport represents more than a quarter (27%) of Europe’s total greenhouse gas emissions.

Pollution

Pollution Taxi London San Francisco

UK researchers report that alcohols in windshield washer fluid are major unreported source of VOCs emissions from cars, including EVs

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2023

The levels of these non-fuel-derived gases will likely remain unchanged, even as more drivers transition from gas-powered to electric vehicles. These emissions are independent of the vehicle energy/propulsion system and therefore applicable to all road vehicle types including those with battery-electric powertrains. Cliff et al.

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Emissions Exhaust Cars Ozone

New study shows a rapid increase of diesel-fueled backup generators across California

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2021

New research by economic and public policy consulting group M.Cubed finds a proliferation of backup generators across California, with nearly 90% being diesel-fueled, posing significant obstacles to achieving greenhouse gas reduction targets and driving nearly $136 million in annual health costs. Of these, 20,907 are diesel-fueled.

Diesel

Diesel California Fuel San Francisco

Anaergia to supply RNG to FuelCell Energy to create renewable hydrogen supporting Toyota’s port facility

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2023

announced that its subsidiary SoCal Biomethane will supply renewable natural gas (RNG) as facilitated by renewable fuels marketer Anew Climate to FuelCell Energy’s Tri-gen system to produce carbon-negative hydrogen and electricity for Toyota Motor North America, Inc.’s Anaergia Inc. The fuel cells will also produce a net 2.3

Renewable

Renewable Hydrogen Supplies North America

California Air Resources Board posts revised draft of strategy to reduce “Super Pollutants”

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a revised draft of California’s proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Strategy. SLCPs are a category of pollutants which remain in the atmosphere for a relatively brief period, but have global warming potentials that are much higher than those of CO 2.

Pollution

Pollution California Emissions Climate

How Transportation is the Leading Cause of Pollution

EV Connect

OCTOBER 6, 2021

However, transportation is responsible for the highest amount of air pollution in America. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that transportation produced 29% of total greenhouse gas emissions in 2019. Low-income communities (or Disadvantaged communities) have a disproportionately higher exposure to air pollution.

Pollution

Pollution Transportation Clean Cleaning

Nevada launches “Clean Cars Nevada” effort; adopting California LEV and ZEV

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2020

Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak announced the “ Clean Cars Nevada ” initiative, which will evaluate the adoption of new regulations to provide Nevadans with more choices for low and zero emission electric passenger cars and trucks at dealerships throughout the state beginning in 2024.

Nevada

Nevada Clean Cleaning California

California ARB releases proposed strategy to reduce impact of short-lived climate pollutants

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2016

The California Air Resources Board released a new draft of California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Strategy to significantly reduce the near-term climate impacts of these potent pollutants. Together, SLCPs represent about 12% of California’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory. Governor Edmund G.

Pollution

Pollution Climate California Carbon

FHWA proposes rulemaking for states and municipalities to track and reduce GHG emissions

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2022

The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ( NPRM ) for states and municipalities to track and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A Discretionary Grant Program for Charging and Fueling Infrastructure will provide $2.5

Emissions

Emissions Financing Gas-Electric Climate

Siemens Energy, FFI and GeoPura developing prototype ammonia cracker to produce hydrogen

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The prototype will use ammonia to deliver 200kg of hydrogen a day—enough to power around 5-10 hydrogen fuel cell-electric buses. We have just 13 years to deliver a net-zero electricity grid for the UK. The traditional process of producing ammonia has used “grey” or “black” hydrogen from either natural gas or coal.

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Hydrogen Energy Grid Ireland

CalZEV Coalition supports Innovative Clean Transit measure under consideration at California ARB; 100% zero-emission buses

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2018

Californians for Zero Emission Vehicles (CalZEV), a coalition of public health, environmental and electric vehicle industry organizations, announced its strong support for the Innovative Clean Transit (ICT) measure currently before the California Air Resources Board (CARB). —Adrian Martinez, staff attorney at Earthjustice.

Clean

Clean Cleaning California Emissions

3 East Coast states and DC first to participate in TCI-P cap-and-invest program for transportation

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The Transportation and Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P) expects to cut greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles in the region by an estimated 26% from 2022 to 2032, and generate a total of more than $3 billion dollars over ten years for the participating jurisdictions to invest.

Rhode Island

Rhode Island District of Columbia Transportation Connecticut

California JETSI to deploy 100 battery-electric regional haul and drayage trucks

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD) is leading a landmark effort along with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to deploy 100 battery-electric regional haul and drayage trucks across California. The project was funded with $26.98

California

California Los Angeles North America Battery

Emissions of Air Pollutants down in EU-27

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

The European Community’s air pollutant emission inventory report released by the European Environment Agency finds that in 2007, sulphur oxides (SO x ) emissions were down by 72 % from 1990 levels. EU-27 emissions of all four pollutants were lower in 2007 than in 2006.

Pollution

Pollution Emissions Czech Republic United Kingdom

Emissions Analytics argues that current Pareto-efficient solution for decarbonization would be hybrids, not BEVs, based on do-no-harm

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2023

On this basis, and of Pareto efficiency, Emissions Analytics argues, until battery-electric vehicles can reach certain performance characteristics, government and industry support should switch immediately from EVs to full hybrids to create maximum welfare. Every air pollutant is more than 90% its limit.

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Emissions Hybrid Kia Gasoline-Electric

Colorado approves goal to make 82% of car sales electric by 2032

Teslarati

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Colorado has voted to approve a new standard on the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), with an additional goal set for 2032 and new guidance for increasing EV sales beginning in 2027. Notably, the release says that the standard does not prohibit the sale or use of non-electric vehicles with internal combustion engines (ICEs).

Colorado

Colorado Sale Tax Credit Tax

How Corporations Can Help the U.S. Reach its EV Goals

Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Amazon announced an investment of nearly $1 billion in an all-electric delivery truck fleet last October. The New York Police Department began its shift to electric vehicles last September. And large corporations like Amazon aren’t the only ones currently converting their fleets from gas to electric.

Corporation

Corporation Fleet Gas-Electric Purchase

Study: California’s cap-and-trade air quality benefits go mostly out of state

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

During the first three years of California’s 5-year-old cap-and-trade program, the bulk of the greenhouse gas reductions occurred out of state—i.e., California is a world leader in adopting ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets and has the world’s fourth-largest carbon-trading program. Cushing et al.

San Francisco

San Francisco Pollution Climate Change Gas-Electric

SK invests in Fulcrum BioEnergy to accelerate production of low-carbon fuel from waste

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2021

has been expanding investments in green businesses and technologies to achieve its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in response to global climate change. A prepared waste feedstock then enters the gasification process where it is converted to a synthesis gas. Founded in Pleasanton, Calif.,

Waste

Waste Carbon Fuel Production

Researchers develop large-scale, economical method to extract hydrogen from oil sands and oil fields

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2019

This can be used to power hydrogen-powered vehicles, which are already marketed in some countries, as well as to generate electricity. Goldschmidt is an annual, international conference on geochemistry and related subjects, organized by the European Association of Geochemistry and the Geochemical Society. —Grant Strem.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Oil Hydrogen Venezuela

EPA issues first National Standards for mercury and air toxics pollution from power plants

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), the first national standards for power plant emissions of mercury and toxic air pollutants (also known as hazardous air pollutants, HAPs) such as arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium, and cyanide. fossil-fuel-fired power plants.

Mercury

Mercury Pollution EPA Standards

Exxon CEO says no new gas cars globally by 2040, goes wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing about CO2

Electrek

JUNE 26, 2022

Every new passenger car sold in the world will be electric by 2040, according to Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods, in an interview aired this weekend by CNBC. The post Exxon CEO says no new gas cars globally by 2040, goes wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing about CO2 appeared first on Electrek.

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CO2 Global Gas Climate

CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines.

Clean

Clean Cleaning Energy Solar

EPA proposes stringent new emissions standards for light-, medium-, heavy-duty vehicles for MY 2027 and beyond

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2023

The proposal retains the proven regulatory design of previous EPA standards for light-duty vehicles, but leverages advances in clean car technology to further reduce both climate pollution and smog- and soot-forming emissions. Criteria pollutant standards.

EPA

EPA Light Standards Emissions

European project HARARE seeks to produce iron and non-ferrous metals from waste using hydrogen as reductant

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Norway-based research organization SINTEF is currently heading a major EU-funded project called HARARE , which aims to use hydrogen to recover copper and aluminum from copper slag and bauxite residues (red muds), respectively. HARARE stands for “Hydrogen As the Reducing Agent in the REcovery of metals and minerals from metallurgical waste”.

Waste

Waste Hydrogen Norway Pollution

Why Schools Should Electrify Their Bus Fleets

Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The transition away from gasoline and diesel vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs) is going full throttle in the United States, and that includes the iconic yellow school bus. Here are several reasons for school districts to switch to electric buses.

Fleet

Fleet Pollution Diesel Ozone

Renewable natural gas flowing into SoCalGas pipelines from Calgren dairy digester pipeline cluster

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Southern California Gas Co. SoCalGas) and biogas producer Calgren Dairy Fuels announced that renewable natural gas produced at Calgren’s dairy digester facility in Pixley, California is being injected into SoCalGas pipelines. In August 2018, SoCalGas began receiving renewable natural gas into its system from CR&R, Inc.’s

Renewable

Renewable Gas Waste Gas-Electric

Harvard buys four Proterra electric buses

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Harvard University recently purchased four Proterra battery-electric buses and electric infrastructure. Each Proterra battery-electric transit bus is 35 feet long (similar in size to the current buses), has a seating capacity of 29, and runs on a 450 kWh battery. in Allston.

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Buy Massachusetts Electrical Electric

Eaton introduces set of products to reduce vapor emissions during refueling; LEV III regulations

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2021

This problem is even more pronounced in hybrid-electric vehicles, which require special measures to address evaporative emissions as the gas engine only operates intermittently, creating the need to store pressurized fuel vapor. A Fuel Tank Isolation Valve is offered for use in hybrid electric vehicles.

Eaton

Eaton Emissions Gasoline-Electric Production

BGU researchers develop sensor to detect nanoplastics in the air using carbon dots

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2022

Some plastic materials slowly erode while they’re being used or after being disposed of, polluting the surrounding environment with micro- and nano-sized particles. Therefore, it could be helpful to know the levels of airborne nanoplastic pollution in the environment. —Raz Jelinek, Ph.D., the project’s principal investigator.

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Carbon Pollution Environment

Disneyland faces pressure to electrify its stinky ‘Autopia’ ride, and quick

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.

Gas-Electric

Gas-Electric Honda Pollution 2016

Canada, US and Mexico commit to align light- and heavy-duty fuel efficiency and GHG standards out to 2025 and 2027, respectively

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As part of that effort, the leaders committed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from light- and heavy-duty vehicles by aligning fuel efficiency and/or GHG emission standards out to 2025 and 2027, respectively. Short-lived climate pollutants. 50% clean power target.

Mexico

Mexico Canada Standards Light

Argonne and NGO Energy Vision case studies demonstrate success of renewable natural gas as transport fuel

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the sustainable energy NGO Energy Vision released two case studies assessing the results of projects that were among the first to produce Renewable Compressed Natural Gas (R-CNG) vehicle fuel by using anaerobic digesters to capture the biogases from decomposing organic waste.

Renewable

Renewable Gas Transportation Fuel

CR&R Environmental begins using carbon-neutral renewable natural gas in fleet

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2017

Southern California Gas Co. SoCalGas) and waste management company CR&R Environmental announced that renewable natural gas from CR&R’s anaerobic digestion facility in Perris, California is now being used to fuel CR&R’s waste-hauling trucks. The trucks are being fueled from special storage trailers while SoCalGas completes a 1.4-mile

Renewable

Renewable Gas Carbon Fleet

CARB approves ICT regulation; 100% zero-emission bus fleets by 2040; ZEB tech symposium in Feb 2019

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2018

The ICT is part of a statewide effort to reduce emissions from the transportation sector, which accounts for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions and 80-90% of smog-forming pollutants. Eight of the 10 largest transit agencies in the state are already operating zero-emission buses, including battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

Fleet

Fleet Emissions 2019 Purchase

California governor proposes additional $6.1B in budget package for decarbonizing transportation in state; total $10B over 6 years

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2022

billion Proposition 98, $676 million Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, and $383 million Federal Funds) one-time over five years, with a focus on communities that are most impacted, bringing the total investment to $10 billion over six years to decarbonize the transportation sector. billion ($3.5 billion General Fund, $1.5

Transportation

Transportation California Climate Neighborhood

Maritime industry players join forces to realize the decarbonization potential of solid oxide fuel cells

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2021

By electrochemically converting fuel into electricity, SOFCs can potentially produce power with higher efficiency than internal combustion engines running on the same fuelcwithout creating polluting emissions or particulates.

Industrial

Industrial Industry Fuel Mariner

Volvo LX1 series hybrid wheel loader demonstrates 50% improvement in fuel efficiency; renewable diesel in the engine

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2017

With funding provided by the California Energy Commission, Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) demonstrated its LX1 prototype mid-sized (20 ton) hybrid-electric wheel loader ( earlier post ), a piece of equipment widely used in the construction, refuse, and agricultural industries, that achieved a 50% improvement in fuel efficiency.

Volvo

Volvo Renewable Diesel Hybrid

Insight into benzene formation could help development of cleaner combustion engines

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2021

For nearly half a century, astrophysicists and organic chemists have been on the hunt for the origins of C 6 H 6 , the benzene ring—an elegant, hexagonal molecule comprising 6 carbon and 6 hydrogen atoms. —Zhao et al. This work was supported by the DOE Office of Science. Long Zhao, Wenchao LU, Musahid Ahmed, Marsel V.

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Cleaner Insight Engine Hawaii

Bloom Energy and Samsung Heavy Industries team up to build ships powered by solid oxide fuel cells running on natural gas

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

SHI aims to be the first shipbuilder to deliver a large cargo ship for ocean operation powered by fuel cells running on natural gas. If the global marine shipping industry was a country, it would be the sixth-largest producer of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the world.

Gas

Gas Industrial Industry Mariner

Argonne updates GREET and AFLEET tools for transportation technologies analysis

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Updated CCLUB to include added four land use change (LUC) cases and associated soil organic carbon change (SOC) updates related to soybean biodiesel pathways. Updated the emission factors of criteria air pollutant (combustion and non-combustion emissions) for SMR hydrogen and petroleum fuels.

Transportation

Transportation Pollution Alternative Fuels Gasoline-Electric

Senators Kerry and Lieberman Release Details of Energy and Climate Bill; Incentives for Electric Drive and Natural Gas Vehicles

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

The American Power Act, released as a discussion draft, targets reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 4.75% compared to 2005 levels by 2013; by at least 17% compared to 2005 levels by 2020; by at least 42% compared to 2005 levels by 2030; and by at least 83% compared to 2005 levels by 2050. Natural Gas.

Gas-Electric

Gas-Electric Climate Gas Energy

List of The Best 10 Alternative Fuels for Cars that Could Replace Gasoline

Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

from automobiles, environmental pollution, depletion of fossil fuels, etc. It takes really long to form fossil fuels They are air pollutants – Combustion of fossil fuels emits greenhouse gases causes air pollution Global warming – as a result of greenhouse gas emission, atmospheric temperature increases ( how? ).

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Alternative Fuels Gasoline Fuel Gasoline-Electric

California ARB moves forward with climate and air quality actions

Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2017

CARB also adopted a new plan to curb destructive “super pollutants” including black carbon, fluorinated gases and methane. The plan, California’s Short-lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy, maps out the route to more rapid greenhouse gas reductions by clamping down on these super pollutants.

Climate

Climate California Ozone Pollution

New analysis suggests Uber adding significantly to pollution and traffic in European cities

UK researchers report that alcohols in windshield washer fluid are major unreported source of VOCs emissions from cars, including EVs

New study shows a rapid increase of diesel-fueled backup generators across California

Anaergia to supply RNG to FuelCell Energy to create renewable hydrogen supporting Toyota’s port facility

California Air Resources Board posts revised draft of strategy to reduce “Super Pollutants”

How Transportation is the Leading Cause of Pollution

Nevada launches “Clean Cars Nevada” effort; adopting California LEV and ZEV

California ARB releases proposed strategy to reduce impact of short-lived climate pollutants

FHWA proposes rulemaking for states and municipalities to track and reduce GHG emissions

Siemens Energy, FFI and GeoPura developing prototype ammonia cracker to produce hydrogen

CalZEV Coalition supports Innovative Clean Transit measure under consideration at California ARB; 100% zero-emission buses

3 East Coast states and DC first to participate in TCI-P cap-and-invest program for transportation

California JETSI to deploy 100 battery-electric regional haul and drayage trucks

Emissions of Air Pollutants down in EU-27

Emissions Analytics argues that current Pareto-efficient solution for decarbonization would be hybrids, not BEVs, based on do-no-harm

Colorado approves goal to make 82% of car sales electric by 2032

How Corporations Can Help the U.S. Reach its EV Goals

Study: California’s cap-and-trade air quality benefits go mostly out of state

SK invests in Fulcrum BioEnergy to accelerate production of low-carbon fuel from waste

Researchers develop large-scale, economical method to extract hydrogen from oil sands and oil fields

EPA issues first National Standards for mercury and air toxics pollution from power plants

Exxon CEO says no new gas cars globally by 2040, goes wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing about CO2

CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

EPA proposes stringent new emissions standards for light-, medium-, heavy-duty vehicles for MY 2027 and beyond

European project HARARE seeks to produce iron and non-ferrous metals from waste using hydrogen as reductant

Why Schools Should Electrify Their Bus Fleets

Renewable natural gas flowing into SoCalGas pipelines from Calgren dairy digester pipeline cluster

Harvard buys four Proterra electric buses

Eaton introduces set of products to reduce vapor emissions during refueling; LEV III regulations

BGU researchers develop sensor to detect nanoplastics in the air using carbon dots

Disneyland faces pressure to electrify its stinky ‘Autopia’ ride, and quick

Canada, US and Mexico commit to align light- and heavy-duty fuel efficiency and GHG standards out to 2025 and 2027, respectively

Argonne and NGO Energy Vision case studies demonstrate success of renewable natural gas as transport fuel

CR&R Environmental begins using carbon-neutral renewable natural gas in fleet

CARB approves ICT regulation; 100% zero-emission bus fleets by 2040; ZEB tech symposium in Feb 2019

California governor proposes additional $6.1B in budget package for decarbonizing transportation in state; total $10B over 6 years

Maritime industry players join forces to realize the decarbonization potential of solid oxide fuel cells

Volvo LX1 series hybrid wheel loader demonstrates 50% improvement in fuel efficiency; renewable diesel in the engine

Insight into benzene formation could help development of cleaner combustion engines

Bloom Energy and Samsung Heavy Industries team up to build ships powered by solid oxide fuel cells running on natural gas

Argonne updates GREET and AFLEET tools for transportation technologies analysis

Senators Kerry and Lieberman Release Details of Energy and Climate Bill; Incentives for Electric Drive and Natural Gas Vehicles

List of The Best 10 Alternative Fuels for Cars that Could Replace Gasoline

California ARB moves forward with climate and air quality actions

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