Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Even so, during 2010-2014, people in parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, the Midwest and the Middle Atlantic still experienced more than 15 days a year in which ozone levels exceeded the US health-based air quality standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) averaged over eight hours. Source: University of Leicester. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

States signing the MOU are: California, Connecticut, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. Medium- and heavy-duty trucks are a major source of harmful smog-forming pollution, particulate matter, and air toxics.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 6, 2023

Colorado voted to adopt historic standards to promote clean trucks in the state, which will reduce harmful air pollution from trucks and buses. It's time for other Western states to move forward with these safeguards.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2020

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $5,959,842 million in research funding to nine institutions to improve air quality models used to simulate ozone, particulate matter (PM), regional haze, air toxics, and emerging pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2017

They also contribute to air pollution that harms the health of billions of people worldwide and reduces agricultural yields. The paper builds upon previous work by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), an international consortium of more than 100 countries and non-state partners working to reduce SLCPs. Lead author Drew T.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

The DERA funding covers engine replacements, repowers and idle reduction technologies to clean up a variety of older diesel engines, including those in heavy-duty trucks used at ports, delivery trucks, long haul trucks, marine vessels, school buses, and even agricultural equipment. Louis Clean Cities is replacing six school busses.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 2, 2022

From Denver smog to jammed mountain highways, Colorado is focusing on transportation to solve congestion, pollution, and climate problems. The first in a series of stories based on RMI analysis of how key US states are deploying real climate solutions. See more at State Climate Scorecards.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Hong says the method&mash;for which patents are pending—also could be used to clean a variety of pollutants in water and even soil, including: Produced water from oil and gas drilling sites on land. Emerging contaminants, such as wastewater polluted with medications and personal care products.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The six awards from the Joint Center’s first call for proposals will directly support new research on a wide range of issues, from policies to incentivize the scaling of renewable energy and the environmental and economic effects of an air pollution alert system to the economic and environmental benefits of heating price reform.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

ClearFuels recently was selected to receive up to $23 million as a grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to construct a biomass gasifier at Rentech’s Energy Technology Center (RETC) in Colorado and integrate it with Rentech’s existing Product Demonstration Unit. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Colorado Gov. Separately, Governors Ritter, Jon Huntsman (Utah) and Dave Freudenthal (Wyoming) called on President Barack Obama to support speedy development of “clean coal” technology. . … Let’s put everything on the table.”. Bill Ritter said the deposits in the West are a resource that should still be considered but with prudence.

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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 8 (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) will accept applications requesting up to $2,600,000 in grant funds.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

With high population density, low heating requirements, and relatively clean electricity, Barcelona has the lowest per capita emissions. Timothy Hillman, University of Colorado. Anu Ramaswami, University of Colorado. The total end use emissions for the ten cities range between 4.2 t e CO 2 /cap. Megacity Urban Metabolism.

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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 Biden EPA today proposed reinstating a Clean Air Act waiver that allows states to […].

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2018

They found that levels of pollutants that can contribute to the formation of ground-level ozone, or smog, have failed to continue a fairly steady decline as estimated by the US Environmental Protection Agency. We were surprised by the discrepancy between the estimates of emissions and the actual measurements of pollutants in the atmosphere.

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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. 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

JANUARY 3, 2014

Enefit Technology comprises a novel combination of processing units, each of them serving special purposes such as drying and pyrolysis of oil shale, combustion of semi-coke, as well as the dedusting and cleaning of vapors and gases. Waste heat is used to generate electricity, making Enefit shale oil plants net producers of electricity.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

Scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), University of Colorado Boulder, and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México performed a “CT Scan” of the atmosphere, moving along latitudes and longitudes, measuring particle concentrations and compositions in the upper troposphere. The emission sources are limited up there.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the US’ existing fleet of diesel engines. Grant funds may be used for clean diesel projects that use: EPA-verified retrofit technologies or certified engine configurations.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2017

A new white paper from a team at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses the growing US electric vehicle market and the factors that are driving it, with a focus on the 50 most populous US metropolitan areas.

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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. Murray, L. Lamsal, L. Duncan, B., … Tonnesen, G.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

The Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) will manage the projects, which include ultra-clean energy plants that could co-produce electric power, fuels, chemicals and other high-value products from coal with near-zero emissions and substantial increases in efficiency. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

Under the Clean Power Plan Proposal, West Virginia is expected to bring down its carbon rate to about 730 kg/MWh, but that level is not yet low enough for PEVs to be lower emitting than the Prius, and the effect of average emissions reductions on marginal emissions has not yet been characterized. —Tamayao et al. Mili-Ann M. 5b00815.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 16, 2024

In demonstrations, including one last summer at National Renewable Energy Lab facilities in Colorado, the truck proved capable of driving 290-kilometers, then taking on the roles of power plant, mobile command center, and (courtesy of the truck’s “exhaust”) supplier of clean drinking water.

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Teslarati

JUNE 18, 2023

Teslas that are equipped with HEPA filters come with a dedicated feature that ensures clean air in the cabin, regardless of the air quality outside. Several states have outlawed the practice , such as Maine, Utah, New Jersey, Maryland, Colorado, and Connecticut, but other states are yet to follow.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A new interactive mapping tool shows how a growing number of US cities and states have passed regulations restricting the use of gas-powered lawn equipment, or incentivizing the use of electric equipment, with big clean air benefits for a comparatively small investment.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 18, 2024

(And none too soon—the American Lung Association recently reported that the Bay Area’s levels of particle pollution are the fifth-worst of any metro area in the US.) With the help of grant money from the EPA’s Clean School Bus Program and the California Air Resources Board , Zum purchased 74 electric school buses and bidirectional chargers.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Timed perfectly to hit the news cycle at the end of Climate Week and just ahead of Drive Electric Week , the New York City Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice announced the formation of the NAECC in partnership with other C40 Cities like Austin, Texas, Boulder, Colorado, and San Diego and Long Beach, California (among others).

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Blink Charging

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Between the United States federal government, state, and local governments; power companies and utilities; and air pollution control districts, there are hundreds of incentives for fleet owners to switch from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs). More details on the Clean School Bus Rebate can be found here.

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EV Match

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Charge Ahead Colorado. The Charge Ahead Colorado program began in 2013 and has since funded over 2,000 EV charging stations across the state. The program is a joint effort of the Colorado Energy Office and the Regional Air Quality Council. Silicon Valley Clean Energy’s (SVCE) Multi-Family EV Charging Incentive Program.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) approved new low emission vehicle (LEV) standards for new light-duty and medium-duty motor vehicles sold in Colorado beginning in the 2022 model year. New cars and light-duty trucks sold in Colorado currently are subject to the federal Tier 3 emission standards. Earlier post.)

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Right around that time, it started to be apparent that ground mobility was well on the way to cleaning up, and the power sector was already moving in that direction. For small aircraft, like a trainer for example, what [George Bye] is doing with [Colorado e-aircraft manufacturer] Bye Aerospace, makes a lot sense.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Air pollution—specifically PM 2.5 , ozone and NO 2 —could be to blame for up to 33 million emergency asthma attack visits to hospital a year, according to a new open-access study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. million and 230,000 premature deaths in 2016, respectively.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2018

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment will propose Regulation Number 20, Low Emission Vehicles (Colorado Low Emission Automobile Regulations, CLEAR), to the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) to the AQCC at its regular meeting on 16 August 16. Background.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

The study focuses on the period between 2005 and 2018 and tracks combustion emissions of various polluting compounds from various sectors, looking at every state in the contiguous United States, from season to season and year to year. Scientists have long known that pollution observes no boundaries, one of the prime examples being acid rain.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. can meet its emissions goals The Rapid Energy Policy Evaluation and Analysis Toolkit —REPEAT—which you developed at Princeton with Evolved Energy Research , influenced Congress to create massive incentives for clean-energy tech.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2017

The research, led by the International Council on Clean Transportation and Environmental Health Analytics, LLC., —Josh Miller, researcher at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). A paper on the work is published in the journal Nature.

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