2004, Clean and Pollution

California ARB: GHG emissions fell below 1990 levels for first time in 2016; down 13% from 2004 peak; transportation emissions up 2%

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that greenhouse gas emissions in California in 2016 fell below 1990 levels for the first time since emissions peaked in 2004—a reduction roughly equivalent to taking 12 million cars off the road or saving 6 billion gallons of gasoline a year. How the inventory is compiled.

2004

2004 2016 Emissions California

Toyota to pay $180M penalty for Clean Air Act reporting violations

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2021

Toyota Motor Sales USA and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America for systematic, longstanding violations of Clean Air Act emission-related defect reporting requirements, which require manufacturers to report potential defects and recalls affecting vehicle components designed to control emissions.

Toyota

Toyota Clean Cleaning EPA

Taiwan’s Voters Reject Nuclear Power Expansion, But It Really Isn’t Needed To Clean Up The Air

CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Some Context Air pollution has long been a major issue in Taiwan. When I was there in 2004, it was generally a good idea to avoid putting your hands on things and avoid leaning on walls outdoors if wearing white. Failure to do that could mean you’d get black soot on your face or dark […].

Taiwan

Taiwan 2004 Clean Cleaning

CRC ACES Phase 2 report finds emissions from modern heavy-duty diesels well below required levels

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2013

2010 engines emissions reduction relative to 2010, 2007, and 2004 US emission standards. For a number of the most important pollutants, levels were substantially lower than required by regulations. These reductions came while emissions of fine particles were also 92% lower than the 2010 standard 99% lower than 2004 emissions.

Diesel

Diesel Emissions 2004 San Antonio

New Jersey advancing plug-ins: 330K units by end of 2025, 2M by 2035, 85% of new vehicles by 2040

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2020

The New Jersey Legislature just passed the most significant legislation in more than 15 years to reduce air pollutants and global warming pollution from our cars and trucks since the passage of the Clean Cars bill in 2004. —Doug O’Malley, President of ChargEVC and Director of Environment New Jersey.

New Jersey

New Jersey Plug-in Plug Vehicles

California ARB awards $7M for ultra-low NOx heavy-duty diesel truck demo project with Achates opposed-piston engines

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District and the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District also are investing in the project. Earlier post.).

California

California Engine Diesel 2017

Mexico proposes new heavy-duty vehicle emission standards aligned with Euro VI and EPA 2010

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The current limit values in Mexico are equivalent to Euro IV or EPA 2004 standards. With it, Mexico joins a very short list of countries (US, Canada, Japan, European Union, and South Korea) with best-in-class, filter-based standards for heavy-duty vehicles, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).

Mexico

Mexico Standards Emissions 2010

ICCT paper finds $123B benefit to Mexico from tighter heavy-duty diesel emission standards

Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2014

A new working paper by the the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) concludes that tighter heavy-duty diesel vehicle emissions standards in Mexico (NOM 044 standards) would result in a net benefit to Mexico of US$123 billion (1.6

Mexico

Mexico Standards Diesel Emissions

Toyota Transport begins operating first CNG-fueled car hauler

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The purchase of the truck advances Toyota’s own environmental endeavors and efforts in its support of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) SmartWay program, the public-private initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution created by freight transportation in corporate supply chains. million barrels of oil and $20.6

Transportation

Transportation Toyota Peterbilt Long Beach

EPA proposes waiving Federal requirements for stations to capture gasoline vapors when vehicles refuel beginning in 2013

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing a proposed rule under the Clean Air Act (CAA) that would waive requirements beginning in 2013 for systems used at gas station pumps to capture potentially harmful gasoline vapors while refueling cars. Stage II Vapor Recovery Systems Issues Paper (EPA, 2004).

EPA

EPA Gasoline 2013 Ozone

Study Concludes Warming Climate Will Increase Ozone Levels in Major California Air Basins; Climate Change and Regional Air Quality Are Intertwined Problems

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

Authors of the study found that California could experience as many as 6 to 30 more days with ozone concentrations that exceed federal clean-air standards, depending on the extent of increased temperatures and assuming criteria-pollutant emissions in California remain at 1990-2004 levels.

Climate Change

Climate Change Ozone Climate California

Satellite method provides insight into ozone-NOx-VOCs sensitivity for different locations

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Ozone pollution near Earth’s surface is one of the main ingredients of summertime smog. Determining effective strategies for mitigating surface ozone (O 3 ) pollution requires knowledge of the relative ambient concentrations of its precursors, NO x , and VOCs.

Ozone

Ozone Insight Netherlands North America

EPA Releases New Mobile Source Emissions Model

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released an updated version of the Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES) model—MOVES2010—for use to estimate air pollution from cars, trucks, and other on-road mobile sources. Under the Clean Air Act, EPA is required to update regularly the way it calculates mobile source emissions.

EPA

EPA Emissions 2004 Maintenance

Toyota’s greenwashing AI ‘eco-copilot’ is fake, but the prank makes a real point

Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

For example, in 2004 they posed as representatives of Dow Chemical and promised that the company would clean up after the Bhopal Disaster, leading to a temporary $2 billion drop in the company’s market cap. Toyota has a chance to change course with its (relatively) new CEO, and it should do so – for its own sake, and for everyone’s.

Toyota

Toyota Cleaner Gas-Electric Hybrid

EPA updates rules to ease commercialization of alternative fuel conversion systems

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

While properly engineered conversion systems can reduce or at least not increase emissions, poorly designed systems can lead to much more pollution. MY 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and < useful life mileage. MY 2010, 2011, 2012 and < useful life mileage. Exhaust, Evap, and OBD testing. Certification application.

Alternative Fuels

Alternative Fuels Conversion EPA Fuel

Measurements of CO2 and CO in China’s Air Indicate Sharply Improved Combustion Efficiency

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

A team of atmospheric scientists and environmental engineers from Harvard University and Tsinghua University in Beijing have continuously measured atmospheric CO 2 and carbon monoxide (CO) levels in rural Miyun, about 100 km northeast of Beijing, since November 2004.

CO2

CO2 Climate Change Universal China

EPA Proposes to Streamline Approval Process for Fuel Conversion Systems

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2010

The new options would reduce some economic and procedural impediments to clean alternative fuel conversions while maintaining environmental safeguards to ensure that acceptable emission levels from converted vehicles are sustained. MY 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and < useful life mileage. Intermediate age.

Conversion

Conversion EPA Fuel Clean Alternative

Calif. ARB releases GHG scoping plan update; more ZEVs, “LEV IV”, MD and HD regulations; ZEV for trucks; more LCFS

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings. Transportation. —Draft Scoping Plan Update.

Transportation

Transportation Emissions California Ozone

Study Highlights the Importance of Considering Climate Effects of Non-CO2 Emissions from Transport in Mitigation Strategies and Policies

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

The on-road transportation (ORT) and power generation (PG) sectors are major contributors to CO 2 emissions and a host of short-lived radiatively-active air pollutants, including tropospheric ozone and fine aerosol particles, that exert complex influences on global climate. Unger et al. Click to enlarge. Unger et al. Nadine Unger, Drew T.

Climate

Climate Emissions Transportation Climate Change

California ARB Seeks Further Reductions of Diesel Emissions at State Rail Yards

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

Increased leadership from US EPA and the railroads, along with funding to address California’s needs, would signal a clean-air commitment that must be made to protect those who live and work near rail yards. Both pollutants are particularly harmful to children, the elderly and those who have preexisting health problems.

Diesel

Diesel Emissions California 2007

US EPA Proposes New Emissions Rules for Category 3 Marine Diesel Engines, Tighter Fuel Sulfur Restrictions; Harmonization with International Standards

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2009

Current Clean Air Act (CAA) standards (Tier 1) for new Category 3 compression-ignition marine engines (marine diesel) at or above 30 liters per cylinder displacement have been in effect since January 2004 and are equivalent to the current international standards for marine engines contained in MARPOL Annex VI (which went into effect in 1997).

Mariner

Mariner EPA Standards International

Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Sign the petition Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge www.sierraclub.org/arctic/ American Lung Association call for better EPA air pollution standards. Romm, 2004 "Out of Gas, The End of the Age of Oil", by David Goodstein, 2004 "Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage", by Kenneth S.

Plug-in

Plug-in America Plug EV1

Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

But theyve needed definitive proof that PHEVs wont increase pollution. CA, NY, MA and other states have had Zero-Emission Vehicle programs since the early 1990s because battery electric vehicles in those states, taking into account power plants, are far cleaner than gasoline cars in reducing urban air pollution and smog. The GREET 1.6

Plug-in

Plug-in Plugin Plug Hybrid

California Energy Commission awards more than $23M to encourage use of alternative transportation fuels

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

By leveraging outside funding, many of these projects also attract additional investment in clean energy technology. The award recipients are: Clean World Partners, LLC , will receive $6 million to increase the Sacramento BioRefinery’s capacity from 25 tons to 100 tons a day. Aemetis, Inc. Kent BioEnergy Corp.

California

California Los Angeles Transportation Sacramento

Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

When the air resources board relaxed its rules in 2003, it allowed car companies to receive credits toward zero-emission standards by building so-called partial-zero-emissions vehicles — super clean cars that produce little or no smog. This high-pollution moment is referred to as a cold start.

Prius

Prius Plug-in Gasoline-Electric Plug

Achates OPGCI project targeting 50% fuel efficiency gains over downsized GDI engine at reduced cost

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Combining two very clean, very efficient, and cost effective technologies may well yield a new paradigm in engine design that could help satisfy the challenges of ground mobility for decades. This produced robust ignition with very clean, efficient, and stable combustion within constraints for combustion noise.

Downsizing

Downsizing Engine Fuel Gasoline

Sandia study finds fuel cell barges may be attractive lower-cost cold-ironing solution for some types of vessels at some ports

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2013

A study by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories found that hydrogen fuel cell barges may be both technically feasible and commercially attractive as a clean, quiet and efficient power source to provide electrical power for some types of vessels at berth or at anchorage. Click to enlarge.

Fuel

Fuel Hawaii Hydrogen Honolulu

CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Power and Associates 2004 report ]. Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants? But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. And its easier to clean central power plants than millions of vehicles. PHEV Conversions to top What cars can be converted to PHEVs?

PHEV

PHEV Nickel Metal Hydride Prius EPRI

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. The resulting fuel efficiency improvements mean lower CO2 emissions and less fossil fuel consumption and, therefore, less pollution. Daimler/Mercedes Took over Daimler/Chrysler Sprinter PHEV program.

Plug-in

Plug-in Plug Hybrid Lithium Ion

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

However, climate economists predict that if investment in clean energy technology is dramatically increased, for every dollar spent, the world will avoid eleven dollars of climate damage. Without clean technologies in place, these developing countries will find it impossible to curb emissions. in benefits. Obstacles to Licensing.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions

EV Driven

California ARB: GHG emissions fell below 1990 levels for first time in 2016; down 13% from 2004 peak; transportation emissions up 2%

Toyota to pay $180M penalty for Clean Air Act reporting violations

Taiwan’s Voters Reject Nuclear Power Expansion, But It Really Isn’t Needed To Clean Up The Air

CRC ACES Phase 2 report finds emissions from modern heavy-duty diesels well below required levels

New Jersey advancing plug-ins: 330K units by end of 2025, 2M by 2035, 85% of new vehicles by 2040

California ARB awards $7M for ultra-low NOx heavy-duty diesel truck demo project with Achates opposed-piston engines

Mexico proposes new heavy-duty vehicle emission standards aligned with Euro VI and EPA 2010

ICCT paper finds $123B benefit to Mexico from tighter heavy-duty diesel emission standards

Toyota Transport begins operating first CNG-fueled car hauler

EPA proposes waiving Federal requirements for stations to capture gasoline vapors when vehicles refuel beginning in 2013

Study Concludes Warming Climate Will Increase Ozone Levels in Major California Air Basins; Climate Change and Regional Air Quality Are Intertwined Problems

Satellite method provides insight into ozone-NOx-VOCs sensitivity for different locations

EPA Releases New Mobile Source Emissions Model

Toyota’s greenwashing AI ‘eco-copilot’ is fake, but the prank makes a real point

EPA updates rules to ease commercialization of alternative fuel conversion systems

Measurements of CO2 and CO in China’s Air Indicate Sharply Improved Combustion Efficiency

EPA Proposes to Streamline Approval Process for Fuel Conversion Systems

Calif. ARB releases GHG scoping plan update; more ZEVs, “LEV IV”, MD and HD regulations; ZEV for trucks; more LCFS

Study Highlights the Importance of Considering Climate Effects of Non-CO2 Emissions from Transport in Mitigation Strategies and Policies

California ARB Seeks Further Reductions of Diesel Emissions at State Rail Yards

US EPA Proposes New Emissions Rules for Category 3 Marine Diesel Engines, Tighter Fuel Sulfur Restrictions; Harmonization with International Standards

Plug In America - Links and Resources

Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

California Energy Commission awards more than $23M to encourage use of alternative transportation fuels

Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Achates OPGCI project targeting 50% fuel efficiency gains over downsized GDI engine at reduced cost

Sandia study finds fuel cell barges may be attractive lower-cost cold-ironing solution for some types of vessels at some ports

CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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