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Modeling study suggests 1.8M excess deaths attributable to urban air pollution in 2019

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million excess deaths in cities globally in 2019. disease burdens compare across urban areas globally, with most assessments analyzing PM 2.5 concentrations and associated mortality trends in more than 13,000 cities globally between 2000-2019. Although global urban average PM 2.5 Although global urban average PM 2.5

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Study estimates ~4M children worldwide develop asthma each year because of NO2 air pollution

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Improving access to cleaner forms of transportation, like electrified public transport and active commuting by cycling and walking, would not only bring down NO 2 levels, but would also reduce asthma, enhance physical fitness, and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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Daimler Trucks to invest €500M in highly automated trucks; stepping away from platooning, shooting for L4 automation

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At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Daimler Trucks announced that it will invest €500 million (around US$570 million) over the next years and create more than 200 new jobs in its global push to bring highly automated trucks (SAE level 4) to the road within a decade.

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Next 10 report finds California will meet or exceed original target of 1.5M ZEVs by 2025

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The report shows that projected global ZEV adoption from 2015 to 2039 (based on the BNEF 2017 forecast) may follow an s-curve, similar to that of smartphone adoption in the US from 2005 to 2015. of the MoU goal, followed by Oregon with 10%. million target, set by California Governor Brown in 2012, was recently superseded by a new, 5.0-million

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Understanding the Coronavirus Is Like Reading a Sentence

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First, an RNA coronavirus created a global pandemic and brought the world to a halt. And we need RNA vaccines that are more stable and robust and don't require extremely low temperatures for transport and storage. In late 2015, a chance conversation with a colleague in Oregon State's. Work at my group at.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Mr. Kulongoski wants to make Oregon the go-to state for electric vehicle production. In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars.

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