Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Based on their findings in a new study, researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Minnesota suggest that modifying urban form—as a means of affecting motor vehicle usage—may be a strategy to mitigate urban air pollution. Their paper appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2016

Long-term exposure to particulate air pollution has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, but the biological process has not been understood. Participant-specific pollutant concentrations averaged over the years 2000–10 ranged from 9.2–22.6 The study is published in The Lancet. and NO x between 1999 and 2012. μg PM 2.5 /m

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Simultaneous Greenhouse Gas and Criteria Pollutants Emissions Reduction for Off-Road Powertrains. University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Ultra-low Cost, All-SiC Modular Power Converters for DC Fast Charging Equipment Connected Directly to Medium Voltage Distribution System. Cummins Inc.

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EV Obssesion

APRIL 26, 2021

By Luke Tonachel President Biden is following through on his promise to re-establish the long-held authority of governors to adopt vehicle pollution regulations to protect the health and welfare of people in their states. The post President Biden Clears Way for States to Curb Vehicle Pollution appeared first on EV Obsession.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2023

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing amendments to the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for taconite iron ore processing plants that include new emission standards for mercury as well as revising the existing emission standards for hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2019

Paul, Minnesota; Chicago; and Los Angeles. While the study finds an association between air pollution and atherosclerosis, researchers aren’t clear on why. For policy in the US, the focus should be on how to effectively control ozone concentration, which may be harder because it’s a secondary pollutant. —Meng Wang.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2016

However, argues a team from the University of Minnesota in an open-access paper published in the journal Energy Policy , once the “fuel market rebound effect” is factored in, RFS2 actually increases GHG emissions when all fuel GHG intensity targets specified under the act are met. for its analysis.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

A new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota finds that cellulosic ethanol has fewer negative effects on human health because it emits smaller amounts of fine particulate matter. The authors looked at pollutants emitted at all stages of the life cycles of the three types of fuel, including when they are produced and used.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

While it’s obvious that the internal combustion engine vehicles are polluting the air outside the buses, what you may not know is that numerous studies show that the pollution from the burning diesel regularly makes its way into the buses. For an expanded list of statewide incentives, visit our Commercial Incentives page here.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2021

Nonprofit organizations may apply if they provide pollution reduction or educational services to diesel fleet owners or promote air quality and clean transportation. Region 5 (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin) will accept applications requesting up to $3,000,000 in grant funds.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Nonprofit organizations may apply if they provide pollution reduction or educational services to diesel fleet owners or have, as their principal purpose, the promotion of transportation or air quality. Region 5 (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin) will accept proposals requesting up to $3,000,000 in grant funds.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Emissions of regulated pollutants such as carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, and formaldehyde will be reduced, while nitrogen oxides will stay the same. University of Minnesota will use plasma-assisted combustion to enhance flare methane destruction efficiency. Selection amount: $2,881,762). Selection amount: $2,141,876).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). The researchers included a sixth pollutant, ammonia (NH 3 ).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2011

In the first empirical study using satellite measurements to explore the relationship between urban form and air pollution, a team from the University of Minnesota has found that cities with highly contiguous built-up areas have, on average, lower concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 , a key component of urban air pollution).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

A new study by a team from the University of Tennessee, Tsinghua University and the University of Minnesota has found that the wide-scale deployment of electric vehicles in China can increase the Environmental Justice (EJ) challenge in that country. Credit: ACS, Ji et al. . —Ji et al. for nuclear power.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2019

Disease-causing air pollution remains high in pockets of America, particularly those where many low-income and African-American people live, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York. This was also true, but to a lesser extent, for increases in low-income white populations.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

A specific challenge would-be-conversions must face is that the NRC’s standards—both for atmospheric pollution and for the amount of radiological material a reactor can release—are much tighter than federal standards for coal plants.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Nonprofit organizations may apply if they provide pollution reduction or educational services to diesel fleet owners or have, as their principal purpose, the promotion of transportation or air quality. Region 5 (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin): EPA is requesting proposals between $500,000 and $2,500,000.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2012

In a similar way, the full breadth of impacts attributable to conventional gasoline production, such as natural resource consumption and hazardous pollutant emissions, must also be considered in order to make balanced comparisons to biofuels. Process flow diagrams for E85 and gasoline. Credit: ACS, Yang et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC, the biobutanol technology company formed as a joint venture between DuPont and BP, and Highwater Ethanol LLC, a producer of first-generation corn ethanol, have begun to retrofit Highwater’s ethanol plant in Lamberton, Minnesota for the production of bio-isobutanol. of the hydrocarbon gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2012

Acetaldehyde is classified as a hazardous air pollutants (HAP) regulated under Title III of the Clean Air Act Amendments. Numbers inset give the total North American ethanol source. Labels at left are months (e.g., DJF = December, January, February). Credit: ACS, Millet et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District is replacing 48 trucks model year 1991-2003 with trucks powered by 2013 or newer model year engines. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The full list of projects selected for 2014 DERA funds: California.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Established under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), the LoNo program focuses on deploying the cleanest and most energy-efficient US-made transit buses designed to cut CO 2 and criteria pollutant emissions. Louis County in northeast Minnesota. The selected projects are: NoLo Awards. Project sponsor.

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Plug in America

JULY 28, 2021

Plug In America applauds the state of Minnesota and Gov. This makes Minnesota the first state in the Midwest and the 15th state in the nation to pass such a standard. This move will also reduce the air pollution that all Minnesotans breathe, improve public health, and create good jobs in the manufacturing and energy sectors.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2011

Emerging technologies and pollutants of concern. HEI is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1980 as an independent research organization to provide high-quality, impartial, and relevant science on the health effects of air pollution. David Kittleson, University of Minnesota. Source: HEI. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

the Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute (GLMRI), a consortium of the University of Wisconsin–Superior and the University of Minnesota Duluth, to address environmental issues that face shipping and marine transportation, including natural gas fuel applications. In December 2011, MARAD entered a 5-year cooperate agrement with.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

Fleet Orders · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources – 1,800 · City of Chicago - 850 vehicles · Shohomish County, WA - 300 · City of Seattle - 410 · Kansas City, MO - 120 · Capital Metro (Transit agency in Austin) - 165 · ABC Lawn and Pest Control (Austin) - 150 Cities Cities continue to join the Plug-In Partners coalition.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Paul, Minnesota; Cincinnati, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and Dayton, Ohio. In addition, our findings suggest that CO 2 emission reductions needed to meet the targets established by the Kyoto Protocol (1990 levels or lower) cannot be attained through technology change alone. Stone et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Most electricity generating units (EGUs) in China lack advanced pollution controls. 1 ), for four pollutants. Well-to-station emissions represent a larger proportion of total emissions for CVs relative to EVs for many pollutants. Health risks attributable to other pollutants, including secondary PM 2.5 , are uncertain.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2014

They found that, without the CO 2 cap, there is no change in electric sector SO 2 and NO x emissions because the air pollution constraints remain binding. All four scenarios assume reference case natural gas prices and no RPS.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 24, 2022

The climate crisis is solvable if we focus on the big, bold steps necessary to stem the tide of carbon pollution,” Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement. Minnesota is also expected to adopt CARB Standards in 2025, according to documents released by the agency. The Golden State wants this number to reach 68 percent by 2030.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

The fight over how to fairly implement EV charging networks in Minnesota is another example of the tricky politics PUCs are involved with. Issues like auto safety and pollution were the chief concerns. Increasing electricity rates is politically fraught for elected members of public utility commissions.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 9, 2021

Minnesota State Senator Proposes Electric Fuel Tax – As more residents of Minnesota buy electric vehicles gas tax revenue will decline causing the state to find a way to replace the gas tax money it uses to pay for roads and bridges, said Central Minnesota Sen. . – March 2, via TechCrunch. Jeff Howe, R-Rockville.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Chair of the Governor’s Biofuels Coalition, and Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem sent a joint letter to President Trump requesting that he direct the EPA to enforce Section 202 of the Clean Air Act that requires the reduction and elimination of toxic carcinogenic aromatics from gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION. Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord (Midwestern Accord).

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2011

It was always an easy choice because the Republicans were so clearly the party of phonies, hypocrites and mean-spirited, self-centered, big business boot-licking, environment-hating pollution-lovers. I thought those two were the worst until old George W swaggered into the White House.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2011

It was always an easy choice because the Republicans were so clearly the party of phonies, hypocrites and mean-spirited, self-centered, big business boot-licking, environment-hating pollution-lovers. ” Yeah, that’s a much better idea than reining in pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

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