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OSU researchers find small particles from tires inhibit growth of organisms in freshwater, coastal estuaries

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MARCH 6, 2022

Small particles from tires inhibit the growth and cause adverse behavioral changes in organisms found in freshwater and coastal estuary ecosystems, according to two new Oregon State University studies. Both organisms had reduced growth depending on the level of exposure to micro tire particles. Credit: John Dickens.

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Study links increased black carbon pollution to increase in cases of lung adenocarcinoma worldwide

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

An international team of scientists, led by NTU Singapore, has linked increased air pollution to an uptick in cases of lung adenocarcinoma (LADC) worldwide. This study, done in collaboration between NTU and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, showed that a 0.1 Black carbon is a pollutant that is classified as under PM 2.5.

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Study: air pollution causes 800,000 extra deaths a year in Europe and 8.8 million worldwide

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MARCH 12, 2019

Air pollution could be causing double the number of excess deaths a year in Europe than has been estimated previously, according to a study published in the European Heart Journal. Air pollution caused twice as many deaths from CVD as from respiratory diseases. The researchers found that air pollution caused an estimated 8.8

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

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JUNE 8, 2023

In a recent open-access paper published in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology , researchers from the University of York report that alcohols in windshield washer fluid account for a larger fraction of real-world vehicle emissions than previous estimates have suggested. Cliff et al.

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China study connects ozone pollution to cardiovascular health

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JULY 17, 2017

The study, by a team from Duke University, Tsinghua University, Duke Kunshan University and Peking University, appears in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. They monitored indoor and outdoor ozone levels, along with other pollutants. —Junfeng (Jim) Zhang, from Duke and Duke Kunshan University.

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Study finds twice as many cellulose fibers as microplastics in the Atlantic Ocean

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APRIL 4, 2022

A study by three French institutes—Ifremer, the University of Bordeaux and the IRD (a public research institution)—has found that the surface water of the Atlantic Ocean is twice as polluted by cellulose fibers as it is by microplastics. This unique set of data casts doubt then over the internal dynamics of the gyre.

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Study: ozone levels higher across China than in other countries tracking the air pollutant

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In China, people breathe ozone-laden air two to six times more often than people in the United States, Europe, Japan, or South Korea, according to a new international study published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters. —Lin Zhang of Peking University, lead author.

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USC study associates PM2.5 air pollution with poor survival in liver cancer patients

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JUNE 7, 2017

A study by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) has significantly associated exposure to particulate air pollution after being diagnosed with liver cancer with an increased risk of premature death. The study appears in the International Journal of Cancer. mg/m 3 ) increase in PM2.5 was 1.18 (95% CI: 1.16–1.20);

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Pollutant emitted by biomass burning found to cause DNA damage and lung cell death; the role of retene

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

A new study by a team from Brazil, with colleagues in the US, has shown that particulate pollution biomass burning in the Amazon induced inflammation, oxidative stress and severe DNA damage in human lung cells. After 72 hours of exposure, more than 30% of the cultured cells are dead, the researchers found.

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Meet the Teens Whose Tech Reduces Drownings and Fights Air Pollution

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Drowning is the third leading cause of accidental deaths globally, according to the World Health Organization. Her Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) System for Ocean Hazard Recognition and Rescue: Scout and Rescue UAV Prototype project was showcased in May at Regeneron’s International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Los Angeles.

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Lancet Commission report estimates pollution responsible for 9 million premature deaths globally in 2015; 16% of deaths

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OCTOBER 21, 2017

Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world today, according to the newly released report detailing the adverse effects of pollution on global health by the The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health. Pollution is costly. The open-access report is published in The Lancet.

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HEI launches two new non-tailpipe particulate emission studies

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JANUARY 8, 2023

Emissions from automobile exhaust systems have decreased in recent years due to the introduction of cleaner fuels and new control technologies on internal combustion engines, as well as increases in numbers of hybrid and electric vehicles. 10 ) of urban air, a fraction known to be enriched with non-tailpipe constituents.

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U Birmingham study finds DPFs have limited impact on ultrafine particle emissions

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MARCH 29, 2023

A study by researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK has found that while Diesel Oxidation Catalysts (DOCs) and Diesel Particle Filters (DPFs) has been very effective in controlling the tailpipe emissions of solid particles, there has been little change in the liquid mode ( 104 cm −3 /24-hour mean) defined by WHO. 2023.107888

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Study finds household and outdoor air pollution contributes to more than 5.5 million premature deaths worldwide per year

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

New research shows that household (indoor) and outdoor air pollution contribute to more than 5.5 In the context of the Global Burden of Disease 2013 study ( earlier post ), researchers from Canada, the United States, China and India quantified air pollution levels and attributable health impacts for 188 countries for the period 1990-2013.

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UC Irvine study finds organic constituents of UFP play important role in heart disease; suggestions for more effective emission control

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OCTOBER 12, 2013

Results of a study funded and released by the California Air Resources Board (ARB) suggest that the organic constituents of ultrafine PM (UFP, particles ? technology for the removal of the organic constituents as well as the reduction of the number of particles. PM comprises solid, liquid, and semi-volatile organic components.

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PNNL-led international study finds ultrafine aerosols have outsize impact on storm clouds, precipitation

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JANUARY 27, 2018

vehicles) and industrial air pollution—fuel powerful storms and influence weather much more than has been appreciated, according to a study published in the journal Science. The work was supported by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science and other organizations. Ultrafine aerosols—minute particles from urban (e.g.,

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Study shows alkanes can rapidly acquire oxygen atoms in a free radical chain reaction; significant for fuel combustion and air pollution

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MARCH 7, 2021

An international team of researchers has shown that alkanes participate extensively in autoxidation reactions with oxygen molecules. Autoxidation is a chemical process in which oxygen molecules rapidly and sequentially add to organic molecules in a radical chain reaction. —Zhandong Wang.

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Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group formed

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MAY 26, 2022

Several organizations, encompassing companies, research labs, and academia, have formed the Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group. —James Turner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). ID-Technologies, Fribourg, Switzerland.

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Air pollution may shorten survival of patients with lung cancer

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AUGUST 5, 2016

Air pollution may shorten the survival of patients with lung cancer, suggests a population-based study by a team from the University of Southern California published in the journal Thorax. As might be expected, survival for patients with advanced disease was poor, irrespective of exposure to pollutants.

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Insight into benzene formation could help development of cleaner combustion engines

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JUNE 10, 2021

The researchers say that their findings, recently published in an open-access paper in the journal Science Advances , are key to understanding how the universe evolved with the growth of carbon compounds. That insight could also help the car industry make cleaner combustion engines. —Zhao et al.

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EPRI, CALSTART awarded $13M to develop high-power freight-charging corridor network in California; RHETTA

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JANUARY 20, 2022

The two organizations will lead a first-of-its-kind collaboration to launch the country’s first zero-emission, freight-charging corridor network. Project partners include: Southern California Edison; Southern California Association of Governments; GRID Alternatives; Cambridge Systematics, Inc.; Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc.;

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TOAR shows present-day global ozone distribution and trends relevant to health; public database

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

These are some of the findings of a new health assessment based on the Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR), an effort by the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project to create the world’s most comprehensive database of surface ozone observations from all available ozone monitoring stations around the globe. Click to enlarge.

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UBC researchers find life-cycle GHG benefits of LNG in marine shipping only from high-pressure dual-fuel engines in ocean-going vessels

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MAY 20, 2019

A life-cycle assessment of emissions from domestic and imported liquefied natural gas (LNG), and heavy-fuel oil (HFO) for marine shipping by a team from the University of British Columbia has found that only high-pressure dual-fuel (HPDF) engines robustly reduce well-to-wake GHG emissions by 10% compared with their HFO-fueled counterparts.

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Two Companies Plan to Fuel Cargo Ships With Ammonia

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AUGUST 3, 2024

The companies, Brooklyn-based Amogy and Osaka-based Yanmar , say they plan to combine their respective areas of expertise to develop power plants for ships that use Amogy’s advanced technology for cracking ammonia to produce hydrogen fuel for Yanmar’s hydrogen internal combustion engines. We have a long way to go.

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Coltura: Supreme Court precedent means states can require all new vehicles sold be electric

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AUGUST 14, 2020

Recent US Supreme Court precedent has opened the door for states to enact laws requiring all new cars sold in the state to be electric as of a certain date, according to a paper by the nonprofit Coltura published in the University of Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law. Its vision is a gasoline-free US by 2040 or sooner.

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EU research project IDEALFUEL seeks to develop marine low-sulfur heavy fuel oils from biomass; Bio-HFO

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JUNE 26, 2020

In an EU-funded research project, an international consortium is aiming to develop new production methods for sustainable marine fuels to replace heavy fuel oils in shipping. In addition, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is seeking to ban HFO use in Arctic waters. The participants are Vertoro B.V. (NL);

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Chalmers study finds ship exhaust gas scrubbers responsible for up to 9% of certain hazardous emissions into Baltic Sea

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

New research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, finds that the discharge water from ships’ exhaust gas treatment systems—i.e., PAHs are highly toxic to both humans and aquatic organisms as they are, among other things, carcinogenic. —Erik Ytreberg.

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Vattenfall and Aalborg University Partner with SCF Technologies on Near Supercritical Bio-oil Process

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. Click to enlarge.

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Seaport Electrification Could Slash Emissions Worldwide

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AUGUST 24, 2024

According to the International Maritime Organization , shipping was responsible for over 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions in 2018. In response, governments, NGOs, and environmental watchdog groups are sounding alarms and advocating for urgent measures to mitigate pollution at the world’s ports. How does that work?

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Airbus and LM Industries create mobility startup Neorizon; digital manufacturing

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OCTOBER 12, 2019

Every local and state government is faced with challenges such as rapid urbanization and congestion, inefficient and pollutive transport, and ever-changing and evolving technology. Queisser is a senior executive with international business leadership experience spanning Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and North America.

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Study: IMO low-sulfur fuel standards will decrease childhood asthma cases, premature deaths; climate tradeoffs

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Marine shipping fuels will get cleaner in 2020 when a regulation by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) requires a decrease in the allowable amount of sulfur in fuel oil from 3.5% pollution impacts in 2020 with and without the use of low-sulphur fuels. —i.e., from 35,000 parts per million (ppm) to 5,000 ppm.

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Study: no one knows which city has the highest concentration of PM2.5

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AUGUST 23, 2019

is the leading global environmental risk factor for mortality and disease burden, with associated annual global welfare costs of trillions of dollars, However, no one knows what city has the highest level of the pollution. Such sparse monitoring fails to represent pollution variability. Exposure to ambient PM 2.5 million people.

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HyPER project using sorbent-enhanced steam reforming for low-carbon production of H2 from natural gas

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

An international collaboration led by Cranfield University will examine the potential for the low-carbon production of hydrogen from natural gas. MW th pilot plant at Cranfield University to test the innovative hydrogen production technology that substantially reduces greenhouse gas emissions.

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HALO research aircraft measuring the emissions of megacities in EmeRGe project

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MARCH 22, 2018

However, emissions do not just remain in conurbations; particles and gaseous pollutants can be transported thousands of kilometers by the wind. The University of Bremen is the scientific base of the international project known as EMeRGe (Effect of Megacities on the transport and transformation of pollutants on the Regional and Global scales).

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

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Goldschmidt is an annual, international conference on geochemistry and related subjects, organized by the European Association of Geochemistry and the Geochemical Society. The only product of this process is hydrogen, meaning that it the technology is effectively pollution and emission free. —Grant Strem.

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Arizona State Students Develop a Solar-Powered Air Filtration System

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A team of students from the Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University is helping to improve the air quality for nomadic communities in Mongolia. A drought in Mongolia has led to food shortages, prompting the nomads to migrate to the Ger district in the capital of Ulaanbaatar, one of the world’s most polluted cities.

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Study: long-term exposure to PM2.5 associated with numerous types of cancer

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APRIL 29, 2016

Long-term exposure to ambient PM 2.5 , a mixture of environmental pollutants, was associated with increased risk of mortality for many types of cancer in an elderly Hong Kong population, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention , a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

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Winners of 2012 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge

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JUNE 18, 2012

and Jim Jones, Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced the winners of the 2012 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. Waymouth of Stanford University and Dr. James L. Buckman International Inc., Shakhashiri, Ph.D.,

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Discovery of mechanism for atmospheric particle formation suggests need for ammonia emission regulations

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MAY 23, 2022

An international team of researchers has shed light on one way new particles are forming in the upper troposphere. There are no factories or farms, and planes are thought to make up most of the pollutants in this area. This is important, especially in the relatively clean upper troposphere. The emission sources are limited up there.

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Cummins CTO John Wall receives California’s premier air quality award

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JUNE 26, 2015

The two other recipients are: Dr. Donald Blake, professor of chemistry, University of California Irvine. Dr. Blake has carried out measurements of atmospheric volatile organic compounds that have provided critical insights into their roles in air pollution and climate change. Dr. Kirk R.

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Commercial Shipping Emits Almost Half As Much Particulate Pollution as Total Released by World’s Cars

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FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Globally, commercial ships emit almost half as much particulate matter pollutants into the air as the total amount released by the world’s cars, according to a new study led by NOAA and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Ship pollutants affect local air quality and the health of people living along coastlines. James Corbett.

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NSF launches $20M engineering research center aimed at converting natural gas into transportation fuels: CISTAR

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The CISTAR approach could decrease the amount of greenhouse gases and air pollutants, while reducing chilled and pressurized trucking of light hydrocarbons and simplifying transportation of fuels to end users. Research will also occur at all of the universities involved.

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Study finds megacity traffic soot can reach high altitudes and be transported over long distances, contributing to global warming

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DECEMBER 16, 2018

results indicate that traffic is the dominating source of BC and particulate air pollution in the metropolitan area of La Paz/El Alto. Soot particles from combustion processes significantly contribute to air pollution because they contain heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons which are toxic.

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MIT researchers build model simulating atmospheric transport of PAHs; how chemicals get to the Arctic

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Persistent organic pollutants are chemicals of substantial international concern. Friedman’s work will provide a foundation for ongoing work in Selin’s research group at MIT, in collaboration with the University of Rhode Island and the Harvard School of Public Health.

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OSU researchers find small particles from tires inhibit growth of organisms in freshwater, coastal estuaries

Study links increased black carbon pollution to increase in cases of lung adenocarcinoma worldwide

Study: air pollution causes 800,000 extra deaths a year in Europe and 8.8 million worldwide

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

China study connects ozone pollution to cardiovascular health

Study finds twice as many cellulose fibers as microplastics in the Atlantic Ocean

Study: ozone levels higher across China than in other countries tracking the air pollutant

USC study associates PM2.5 air pollution with poor survival in liver cancer patients

Pollutant emitted by biomass burning found to cause DNA damage and lung cell death; the role of retene

Meet the Teens Whose Tech Reduces Drownings and Fights Air Pollution

Lancet Commission report estimates pollution responsible for 9 million premature deaths globally in 2015; 16% of deaths

HEI launches two new non-tailpipe particulate emission studies

U Birmingham study finds DPFs have limited impact on ultrafine particle emissions

Study finds household and outdoor air pollution contributes to more than 5.5 million premature deaths worldwide per year

UC Irvine study finds organic constituents of UFP play important role in heart disease; suggestions for more effective emission control

PNNL-led international study finds ultrafine aerosols have outsize impact on storm clouds, precipitation

Study shows alkanes can rapidly acquire oxygen atoms in a free radical chain reaction; significant for fuel combustion and air pollution

Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group formed

Air pollution may shorten survival of patients with lung cancer

Insight into benzene formation could help development of cleaner combustion engines

EPRI, CALSTART awarded $13M to develop high-power freight-charging corridor network in California; RHETTA

TOAR shows present-day global ozone distribution and trends relevant to health; public database

UBC researchers find life-cycle GHG benefits of LNG in marine shipping only from high-pressure dual-fuel engines in ocean-going vessels

Two Companies Plan to Fuel Cargo Ships With Ammonia

Coltura: Supreme Court precedent means states can require all new vehicles sold be electric

EU research project IDEALFUEL seeks to develop marine low-sulfur heavy fuel oils from biomass; Bio-HFO

Chalmers study finds ship exhaust gas scrubbers responsible for up to 9% of certain hazardous emissions into Baltic Sea

Vattenfall and Aalborg University Partner with SCF Technologies on Near Supercritical Bio-oil Process

Seaport Electrification Could Slash Emissions Worldwide

Airbus and LM Industries create mobility startup Neorizon; digital manufacturing

Study: IMO low-sulfur fuel standards will decrease childhood asthma cases, premature deaths; climate tradeoffs

Study: no one knows which city has the highest concentration of PM2.5

HyPER project using sorbent-enhanced steam reforming for low-carbon production of H2 from natural gas

HALO research aircraft measuring the emissions of megacities in EmeRGe project

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

Arizona State Students Develop a Solar-Powered Air Filtration System

Study: long-term exposure to PM2.5 associated with numerous types of cancer

Winners of 2012 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge

Discovery of mechanism for atmospheric particle formation suggests need for ammonia emission regulations

Cummins CTO John Wall receives California’s premier air quality award

Commercial Shipping Emits Almost Half As Much Particulate Pollution as Total Released by World’s Cars

NSF launches $20M engineering research center aimed at converting natural gas into transportation fuels: CISTAR

Study finds megacity traffic soot can reach high altitudes and be transported over long distances, contributing to global warming

MIT researchers build model simulating atmospheric transport of PAHs; how chemicals get to the Arctic

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