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AUGUST 22, 2019

Their paper, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), is the largest international study to investigate the short-term impacts of air pollution on death, conducted over a 30-year period. These associations remained significant after adjustment for gaseous pollutants. concentration were 0.68% (95% CI, 0.59 Coelho, Ph.D.,

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Diesel generators release greenhouse gases, particulate matter (PM), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), nitrous oxides (NO x ) and sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), harmful pollutants that create smog and exacerbate respiratory conditions. This pollution, in turn, may trigger upwards of $31.8 Of these, 20,907 are diesel-fueled.

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MAY 2, 2019

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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The rule requires container, passenger and refrigerated cargo ships to reduce emissions while docked at California’s busiest ports, including Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Hueneme, San Francisco and San Diego. CARB’s investigation revealed that from 2017 to 2018, Mitsui O.S.K.

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MAY 9, 2020

Fuels produced from the facility will result in significant reductions of both greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and local air pollutants such as particulate matter. The blended fuel will reduce the overall GHG emissions and other harmful local pollutants in the San Joaquin Valley and elsewhere in California.

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APRIL 28, 2021

Once brought to market, the fuel cell technology could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and air pollution from thousands of small commercial boats throughout California including patrol, fishing, fire, rescue, ferry, taxi, recreational and other vessels. Supported boat speeds range from a few knots to more than 50 knots.

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APRIL 20, 2022

The bill requires CARB to set the amount of the incentive at a level that maximizes the displacement of gasoline or diesel and the reduction of emissions criteria pollutants per dollar spent. Light duty vehicles cause 28% of California’s total carbon emissions and pollute the air near freeways and busy roads.

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MAY 12, 2022

Phillips 66 made a final investment decision Wednesday to move forward with Rodeo Renewed, the project to convert its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, into one of the world’s largest renewable fuels facilities. million cars off California roads each year.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 7, 2023

San Francisco has become a hub for companies wanting to test autonomous vehicles thanks to its progressive leadership and proximity to Silicon Valley. Police have even issued warrants to obtain video footage captured by autonomous vehicles operating in San Francisco and Arizona's Maricopa County.

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MARCH 29, 2017

CHIE participants are exposed to one or several common air pollutants usually for a few hours at concentrations that are not expected to produce adverse responses. The NAAQS process has broad health importance because it regulates the outdoor air concentrations of those pollutants. 2009 to Oct.

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MAY 4, 2022

The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the land-use permit necessary to reconfigure the San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo to produce renewable fuels. Rodeo Renewed also stands to cut criteria pollutant emissions at the site by 50% and water use by 160 million gallons per year. Earlier post.)

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JULY 11, 2018

state residents did not see the benefits of improved air quality from presumed reductions in harmful co-pollutants, such as particulate matter— according to a new study led by UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University researchers. The impact on these communities could be severe and long-lasting, the authors said.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 29, 2018

A new report on pollution, economic growth, and renewable energy in California sheds new light on the link between emissions regulations and economic growth ahead of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco next month.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced up to $205 million in grants for projects designed to accelerate the adoption of clean freight technologies and reduce air pollution caused by the movement of goods throughout the state. Partner match: $4.6 Partner match: $5.2

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Teslarati

APRIL 7, 2024

percent yearly decrease on average, according to the study’s Lead Researcher and Professor, Executive Associate Dean at Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science and Society, Ronald Cohen in a report from the San Francisco Chronicle. “If The data shows a gradual decline in carbon dioxide emissions, representing a 1.8-percent

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Baua Electric

APRIL 5, 2024

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley , found that between 2018 and 2022, CO2 emission from all sources (industries, homes, traffic) across the San Francisco Bay Area dropped around 1.8% EVs made up nearly 40% of new auto registrations in San Jose and 34% in San Francisco last year. “We

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 20, 2016

Volkswagen may buy back more than 500,000 illegally polluting cars in the U.S., A federal judge in San Francisco is slated to hear the proposed plan from VW on April 21. Reuters reported Wednesday.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The California counties involved in the lawsuit include: San Joaquin County Alameda County Butte County Contra Costa County Fresno County Kern County Los Angeles County Marin County Monterey County Orange County Placer County Riverside County Sacramento County San Bernardino County San Diego County San Francisco County San Luis Obispo County San Mateo (..)

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APRIL 28, 2021

The first hubs will be built in the San Francisco Bay Area and are expected to be commissioned in 2022; Hyzon and Raven will then expand into the rest of the US and globally. Our process eliminates waste from going into the landfill, and together with HYZON’s fleets will eliminate emissions pollution.

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MAY 16, 2011

Data collected during a major 2010 state-federal atmospheric research project show that the first-in-the-nation regulation requiring ocean-going vessels to use clean fuel when near the California coast has been extremely effective in reducing sulfur dioxide pollution from ships, according to the California Air Resources Board (ARB).

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MARCH 23, 2017

Thirty-seven billboards in Los Angeles and San Francisco will create 24,960 square feet of pollution scrubbing surface and reverse the equivalent of 5,285 vehicles worth of nitrogen dioxide (NO x ) emissions per month. This “catalytic converter” of billboards uses a titanium-dioxide-coated vinyl to purify the surrounding air.

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JUNE 25, 2018

million; Grant: $772,555; Grantee: San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District). Battery-electric high-lift-capacity forklift to be deployed at Port of Stockton by DANNAR, ChargePoint for San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District's Zero-Emission Cargo Handling Demonstration Project. million; Grant: $5.3

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2021

High-throughput clusters, such as marine ports, concentrate harmful criteria pollutants such as diesel particulate matter and oxides of nitrogen. Locomotives and marine vessels emit approximately 90% of diesel particulate matter and 24% of statewide NO x. The Port of West Sacramento is a deep-water port which opened for commerce in 1963.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2017

Under the agreement, California and China will also deepen their partnership and coordination on greenhouse gas emission and air pollution reduction programs, including emissions trading systems and carbon capture. The forum builds on the event Governor Brown launched last year in San Francisco during the Clean Energy Ministerial.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

By transitioning to renewable diesel, we’re significantly reducing the pollution caused by city vehicles that serve the public on a daily basis. San Diego joins other California fleets including the City of San Francisco, City of Oakland, City of Walnut Creek, City of Carlsbad, and County of Sacramento in using Neste renewable diesel.

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JULY 29, 2015

a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, is partnering with Google Earth Outreach to map and better to understand urban air quality. Aclima, Inc., Aclima is pioneering the use of small-scale sensors to map indoor and outdoor environments. —Dan Costa, Sc.D.,

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Get Electric Vehicle

JULY 17, 2023

Environmental pollution by conventional fossil fuel vehicles makes electric vehicles popular. Alternative fuels used in vehicles are also not 100% pollution-free. Autonomous driving of a vehicle can be pollution-free and “green” if the vehicle is a battery electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are collaborating in the $20-million CalNex research project to examine the nexus between air pollution and climate change. How does Southern California compare and contrast with the San Francisco Bay Area?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2010

About a third of the airborne lead particles collected at two sites in the San Francisco Bay Area came from Asia, a finding that underscores the far-flung impacts of air pollution and heralds a new way to learn more about its journey across vast distances. One site was on Mt. Tamalpais, in Marin County. —John Christensen.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

To achieve the best outcomes, the brief suggests, plug-in vehicle adoption should typically be focused on HEVs and PHEVs by city drivers in mild-climate regions with a clean electricity grid, such as San Francisco or Los Angeles. Further, drivers should not be encouraged to charge at night in coal-heavy regions.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The researchers measured vehicle emissions of NO x , CO, fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), OA and BC in bore 2 of the Caldecott tunnel in the San Francisco Bay Area. Of the pollutants measured, gasoline vehicles showed higher emission factors compared to diesel for CO only. —Dallmann et al.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Members of REVI will include San Diego County; the Cities of Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Coronado, Del Mar, Escondido, San Diego, and Solana Beach; and three regional public agencies including the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, the San Diego Air Pollution Control District, and the San Diego Unified Port District.

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2024

The glamping resort, one of 12 Under Canvas sites, is anchored on a canyon rim plateau in southern Utah and is the first resort in the world to be certified by the nonprofit authority on light pollution, DarkSky International. We are getting interest from a variety of businesses, from nonprofits to luxury, high-end properties.”

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FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Under the best-case scenario, the presence of as few as 2,000 self-driving cars in downtown San Francisco will slow traffic to less than 2 mph, according to Millard-Ball, who uses game theory and a traffic micro-simulation model to generate his predictions. “ They can get around paying for parking by cruising. —Adam Millard-Ball.

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JULY 17, 2012

Studies show that each shared car results in up to 13 fewer cars on the road, leading to less-congested roads and less pollution. RelayRides pioneered peer-to-peer car sharing when it launched in Boston in June 2010 and expanded into San Francisco later that year.

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MARCH 24, 2010

In research reported at the 239 th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco, Saido and colleagues revealed that the light, white-foamed plastic commonly known as Styrofoam decomposed rapidly at temperatures commonly found in the oceans. In decomposing, Styrofoam releases potentially toxic substances.

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JUNE 20, 2011

The project will divert approximately 550,000 metric tons of waste that otherwise would go to a landfill while producing jet fuel with lower emissions of greenhouse gases and local pollutants than petroleum-based fuels. Earlier post.).

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