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UMD-led study finds China’s SO2 emissions down 75% since 2007, India’s up 50%; India may now be the top SO2 emitter

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Two maps compare total annual sulfur dioxide amounts for India and China during 2005 (left) and 2016 based on Ozone Monitoring Instrument measurements. Illustration: Chris McLinden, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Purple depicts the highest concentrations while white depicts the lowest. Click to enlarge.

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New report suggests bioenergy crops are not a risk to food production

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Reliable information about the actual local effects is essential, but has been lacking in food-biofuel-climate debates. —lead author Keith Kline of ORNL’s Climate Change Science Institute. Crops such as sugarcane, for example, can be eaten or converted into ethanol fuel for automobile engines. Kline et al.

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Government of Canada Releases Draft Regulations to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New Light-Duty Vehicles; Outcome Aligned With US

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Environment Canada released draft regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new vehicles beginning with the 2011 model year. Canada and the US are working towards a common North American approach to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by introducing aligned and progressively tighter regulatory requirements over the 2011-2016 model years.

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DOT, EPA Set National Standards for Fuel Economy and First Greenhouse Gas Emission Levels For Light-Duty Vehicles

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Final MY 2011 and MY 2012-2016 passenger car fuel economy targets, based on vehicle footprint. mpg for the combined industry-wide fleet (cars and light-trucks) for model year 2016. mpg for the combined industry-wide fleet (cars and light-trucks) for model year 2016. Source: NHTSA. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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US House Members Introduce Bipartisan Disapproval Resolution to Block EPA Regulation of GHG; Mirrors Murkowski Resolution

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When Congress passed the Clean Air Act, it never gave EPA the explicit authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions for the purpose of stopping global climate change. The resulting set of new standards will cover model years 2012-2016, and will require an average fuel economy standard of 35.5

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Québec moves forward with a zero-emission vehicle standard

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The goal of the ZEV standard is to incentivize automobile manufacturers to build more models and use increasingly efficient low-carbon technology. Automakers will be able to accumulate credits for 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 model-year vehicles, without regulatory requirements, and use those credits for compliance purposes in subsequent years.

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NYU Researchers Pave the Way for Future Shared Mobility

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This enormous growth has at least in part been driven by the aim of reducing vehicle carbon emissions to address climate change concerns. federal government's University Transportation Centers program back in 2016. "shared mobility" now constitutes a $60 billion market , according to some estimates. Karl Philip Greenberg.

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