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NYU review study suggests potential for gauging health risks of air pollution on individual level

Green Car Congress

In the past, pollution measurement has been relatively crude in terms of compositional, spatial, and temporal resolution. There have been significant improvements in the ability to conduct granular measurement of air pollutants, and this has enabled more awareness and more focused local policy actions, as addressed below. Globally, 4.2

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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

Cars That Think

Where everyone had access to preventative health care that was both personalized and less invasive? What about reducing pollution in urban and poor communities? Nonprofits are already using cheap sensors to pinpoint heat islands in cities, or neighborhoods where air pollution disproportionately affects communities of color.

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Air Quality: Easy to Measure, Tough to Fix

Cars That Think

All outdoor activity in my neighborhood ceased for weeks, yet staying indoors didn't guarantee relief. Of course, it's not enough to detect air pollutants; you must also remove them. LG led its presentation with personal air purifiers instead of televisions. Harry Campbell. The summer of 2020 brought wildfire to.

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The Ins and Outs of Scrap Car Recycling

Clean Fleet Report

The Art of Dismantling and Depollution: Next, we delve into dismantling and de-pollution, where hazardous materials are carefully purged. Adherence to best practices in de-pollution, waste management and material recovery becomes imperative. Individual Perks Scrap car recycling extends personal gains beyond the horizon.

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UNECE: claim that diesel on-road vehicles are the cause of increased lung cancer is misleading

Green Car Congress

Decisions and performance oriented emission regulations have been adopted that set limits and targets resulting in the dramatic decrease in PM and other emissions; Other economic sectors are lagging behind in their initiatives, strategies and actions to address their share of PM and pollutants emissions. tuning should be warranted.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Sign the petition Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge www.sierraclub.org/arctic/ American Lung Association call for better EPA air pollution standards. The following lists are not exhaustive or fully comprehensive, but we have tried to include a representative list of resources for each category. htm Advocates of the Th!

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Inside The Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. Last year alone, he repaired more than 150 bikes and reached thousands of people with bicycling information.

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