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MAY 16, 2016

Emissions from farms outweigh all other human sources of fine-particulate air pollution in much of the United States, Europe, Russia and China, according a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters , a journal of the American Geophysical Union. A 2015 study in the journal Nature estimates they cause at least 3.3

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Reductions in air pollution yielded fast and significant impacts on health-outcomes, as well as decreases in all-cause morbidity, according to new open-access research published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society. It’s critical that governments adopt and enforce WHO guidelines for air pollution immediately.

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MARCH 25, 2020

This puffy line is not just exhaust from the engine, but a change in the clouds that’s caused by small airborne particles of pollution. Pollution from ships creates lines of clouds that can stretch hundreds of miles. The calculated concentration of cloud droplets without emissions along the shipping route (yellow line).

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JULY 23, 2019

excluding Alaska and Hawaii) between 1999 and 2015. These particles are mainly emitted from automobiles, power plants and industry, and known to be hazardous to health. The amount of this fine particle pollution in the US has declined since 1999. In 2015 the highest concentration was in Tulare County, California (13.2

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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.

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MAY 1, 2018

NO x emissions have not been decreasing as expected in recent years (2011–2015) when comparing top-down estimates from satellites and surface NO 2 measurements to the trends predicted from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s emission inventory data, according to a new study by an international team of researchers.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Comparison of the potential reduction in emissions with the application of lower sulfur 0.5% While that report projected vessel activity, it did not explore the environmental impacts of increased shipping in terms of air emissions or the potential climate impacts from increases in short-lived climate pollutants such as black carbon.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Claims have been made that the automaker used an illegal defeat device on select models to achieve lower tailpipe emissions during testing. It’s a situation reminiscent of the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal from 2015. liter diesel motor contain software designed to skirt emission regulations.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

EPA established the current standards at a level of 70 parts per billion in 2015 and retained them in 2020, after concluding that there was little new information to suggest the need for revision. Nationally, due in part to strong EPA emission standards that reduce air pollution, ozone air quality is improving.

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

The European Environment Agency’s (EEA’s) “ Air quality in Europe — 2019 report ” shows that almost all Europeans living in cities are still exposed to air pollution levels that exceed the health-based air quality guidelines (AQGs) set by the World Health Organization (WHO). in Europe have been reduced by about half a million since 1990.

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JULY 29, 2020

Large improvements of air quality in China during the lockdown have been widely reported, but new research shows that two pollutants harmful to human health—fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) and ozone—were only slightly reduced. Much smaller reductions were observed for other pollutants.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The CMA CGM partnership deals with the development of cleaner and more sustainable energies to eliminate CO 2 emissions, greenhouse gases and air pollutants. The mobilization of CMA CGM will make possible the industrialization of new concrete energy solutions tested on board this floating smart grid.

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JUNE 18, 2016

The Government of Canada has published proposed Locomotive Emissions Regulations in the Canada Gazette, Part I. This marks Canada’s first regulation of air pollutant emissions from locomotives. The emission standards set out in these proposed regulations will also align with those of the United States. of PM emissions.

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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. Cushing et al. The impact on these communities could be severe and long-lasting, the authors said.

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AUGUST 31, 2017

Two new tests for measuring emissions from cars and vans will come into force in the EU tomorrow. The new laboratory test, the Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicle Test Procedure ( WLTP ), will introduce more realistic testing conditions for measuring pollutant and CO 2 emissions than the previous, outdated lab test (NEDC).

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) is developing a National Emission Standard V for vehicles, according to Ren Hongyan, Director of Air Pollution and Noise Control Division of MEP. He made the remarks during the 2009 International Forum on Chinese Automotive Industry Development (IFCAID) held last week in Tianjin.

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OCTOBER 21, 2017

The annual assessment of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the JRC and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) confirms that CO 2 emissions have stalled for the third year in a row. Emissions from international transport (aviation and shipping) contribute another 3% to the total global GHG emissions.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

German auto manufacturers will optimize the emissions systems in 5.3 million currently approved Euro 5 and 6 diesels in the country, according to the outcome of the “National Diesel Forum” held in Berlin today between the automotive industry and the German Federal and state governments.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

New Emissions Standards for Fleet Vehicles While the transition to electric fleets may have once been just a trend, it is now a necessity. To reduce CO2 emissions, many countries signed the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate, pledging to cut their emissions by certain targets.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The project uses a 25,000-liter photobioreactor within a pilot-scale algal biorefinery to recycle carbon dioxide and other airborne industrial pollutants into algal biomass that can be further converted into sustainable products, including renewable biofuels and biomaterials.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 4, 2023

The Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA) appointed ex-Tesla policy head Albert Gore as its new Executive Director. Gore worked at Tesla for approximately 6 years and 11 months, from September 2015 to July 2022. It is a thrilling time for the electric vehicle industry. Pillar 5: Performance and Emissions Standards.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

If air pollution emissions continue to rise at the current rate, some 6.6 The largest sources of air pollution are not industry and transport but small domestic fires and agriculture. The largest sources of air pollution are not industry and transport but small domestic fires and agriculture.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

According to UAI, the EPA has published inaccurate data for years claiming that ethanol increases emissions, even though ethanol’s pollution reducing qualities have been demonstrated repeatedly. The petitioners filed their initial Request for Correction in 2015. AKI compared to the market average 88.3 Distillation temperatures.

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DECEMBER 16, 2017

The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors approved a €428-million ($499-million) loan to set up a regional emission-reduction and pollution-control facility as part of a multiyear and multisector support program to improve air quality in the greater Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region, which suffers from heavy air pollution.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2014

EPA will issue final ozone standards by 1 October 2015. Ground-level ozone forms in the atmosphere when emissions of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds “cook” in the sun from sources such as cars, trucks, buses, industries, power plants and certain fumes from fuels, solvents and paints. Emissions Regulations'

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Additionally, LNG engines are tuned to either emit low nitrogen oxide (NO x ) emissions—at the cost of higher methane emissions in some cases—or to incorporate NO x reduction technologies such as exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) or selective catalytic reduction (SCR). —Pavlenko et al. We know from Olmer et al.

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APRIL 18, 2012

In response to a court deadline, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized standards to reduce air pollution associated with oil and natural gas production. EPA estimates the following combined annual emission reductions when the rules are fully. These gases can pollute the air and as a result threaten public health.

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MAY 10, 2020

An international team of researchers has used satellite images to map urban growth between 1985 and 2015. Urban area dynamics during 1985–2015 at the global and continent scales. They then extracted cells from the two fusion maps that changed from non-urban in 1985 to urban in 2015.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from global shipping are on the rise again, according to a new study released by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). The study highlights that three ship classes and six flag states (country of registration) are responsible for the majority of emissions. Source: The ICCT.

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JUNE 28, 2016

billion to settle complaints arising from its cheating on emissions from its 2.0-liter liter diesel vehicles substantial compensation through buybacks and lease terminations, government-approved emissions modifications, and cash payments, while fixing or removing these polluting vehicles from the road. liter diesel engines.

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MARCH 8, 2015

Leaded gasoline was a larger emission source of the toxic heavy metal lead than mining in South America, even though the extraction of metals from the region’s mines historically released huge quantities of lead into the environment, according to a study by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the University of Bern.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

recently held an open house at its first AquaRefinery at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (TRIC) in McCarran, Nevada. Lead smelting—ranked as the third highest polluting industry in the world—can release toxic lead dust, smoke and slag with significant deleterious environmental and health consequences.

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JANUARY 12, 2013

However, the fuel-cycle PM 10 , PM 2.5 , SO 2 , and NO x emissions of EVs could be up to five times higher than those of ICEVs (internal combustion engine vehicles) and CNGVs. emissions are less important because of the low contribution of light duty vehicles to national PM 10 and PM 2.5 While the increases in PM 10 and PM 2.5

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

A Sandia National Laboratories project team, including a number of industry partners, is designing and building a cold-ironing fuel cell system that will be deployed in the Port of Honolulu in 2015. Ports have been a major source of water and air pollution in the US, but remained relatively unregulated until recent years.

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MAY 26, 2016

and the Port of Los Angeles are launching the Green Omni Terminal Demonstration Project, a full-scale, real-time demonstration of zero and near-zero emission technologies at a working marine terminal. million grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for reducing greenhouse gases and other pollutants. Components include a 1.03

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MARCH 21, 2019

Many communities near major refineries live in fear of exposure to airborne pollutants during a major refinery incident—or during normal operations. The CARB-CAPCOA report is part of a broader initiative set in place in 2013 to address refinery safety and emissions in response to a major fire in 2012 at the Chevron Refinery in Richmond.

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JUNE 30, 2011

These plans will reduce pollution to the level required by the health-based 1997 PM 2.5 standard (NAAQS) by 2015. EPA is, however, proposing to disapprove the plans’ contingency measures because they do not provide sufficient emissions reductions. ARB also revised future emission forecasts to account for the economic recession.

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