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EPA Announces Final Auto Emissions Standards: Industry Reacts

Green Fleet Magazine

The new rule slows the implementation of last year’s proposed stricter pollution standards from 2027 through 2029 but ramps up to nearly the level the EPA had proposed by 2032.

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What Are the Environmental Impacts of Tires

Clean Fleet Report

More Information: Emissions Analytics , Tire Dust Is Pollution ; Why Don’t Tires Last as Long on an EV? See more at E Magazine. EarthTalk ® is produced by Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss for the 501(c)3 nonprofit EarthTalk , which welcomes donations. Send questions to: question@earthtalk.org.

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What’s the Most Environmental Thing To Do When a Car’s Engine Dies

Clean Fleet Report

The manufacturing of new cars, even electric ones, generates heavy emissions, contributing to pollution. See more at E Magazine. Surprisingly, a survey by Zebra found that the average American only keeps their longest-owned car for eight years. Send questions to: question@earthtalk.org.

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Just Business

Plugs and Cars

Harper's Magazine has a profile of an oil fixer, the sort of middleman without whom we don't get our daily dose. One of his most promising investments is a company called Green Holdings, which is in the emerging field of carbon trading: buying rights to pollute from cleaner businesses and selling them to dirtier ones.

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When Should You Dump Your Gas Guzzler?

Clean Fleet Report

Making a car creates a lot of pollution as raw materials have to be extracted, transported and manufactured. See more at E Magazine. A new EV may cost more upfront, but saves in the long run Studies conclude that manufacturing a vehicle accounts for around 25 percent of its lifetime carbon footprint.

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ICCT analysis finds real-world vehicle fuel consumption gap in Europe at all-time high of 42%

Green Car Congress

Further actions are therefore required, in particular on-road testing of fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions under real driving conditions and a not-to-exceed limit for the real-world gap, as it already exists for air pollutant emissions today. com (Spain); and the car club TCS (Switzerland). —Peter Mock.

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DOE BETO seeking input on Optima initiative for co-optimization of fuels and engines

Green Car Congress

This engine platform, which includes kinetically controlled and low-temperature combustion approaches, offers the promise of significantly greater thermal efficiencies with lower criteria-pollutant emissions, and presents attractive options for both light- and heavy- duty vehicles. Optima program overview.

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