Green Car Congress
APRIL 22, 2011
A study by researchers at the University of Texas found that in general, use of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) can lead to an increase in ozone during nighttime hours (due to decreased scavenging from both vehicles and EGU stacks) and a decrease in ozone during daytime hours. The results are less clear in Dallas and Houston.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 31, 2013
The Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) has partnered with the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) and Smith Electric Vehicles Corporation (Smith Electric) to reduce vehicle emissions from delivery trucks in the Houston-Galveston region.
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Green Car Congress
JUNE 8, 2011
Paved surfaces in the Houston area keep the city warmer than more natural surfaces. ““The very existence of the Houston area favors stagnation.” The research team combined extensive atmospheric measurements with computer simulations to examine the impact of pavement on breezes in Houston. Credit: UCAR.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 27, 2014
After ten years in orbit, the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA’s Aura satellite has been in orbit sufficiently long to show that people in major US cities are breathing less nitrogen dioxide. New NASA satellite images released this week demonstrate the reduction of air pollution across the US.
Green Car Congress
MAY 16, 2011
The California data were compared to ship-plume measurements made by NOAA near the Port of Houston, Texas in 2006. One finding was that container ships encountered off the Port of Houston, where no clean-fuel use is required, emitted four times as much sulfur dioxide.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 18, 2019
This finding reveals important opportunities for clean air improvements, especially in large port cities such as New York and Houston. The incentive funds give boat operators a brand new, more efficient, fuel-saving and lower-emitting engine at a fraction the cost.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 11, 2016
In addition to ozone and particulate matter, the other pollutants are lead, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide. Houston: (The Woodlands-Sugar Land), TX: 229 lives saved, 661 fewer morbidities and 636, 211 fewer impacted days. Fresno, CA: 260 lives saved, 672 fewer morbidities and 390,551 fewer impacted days.
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