Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2020

Without taking climate action, the state will fail to make meet the necessary greenhouse gas reduction goals set forth under SB 254 and pursuant to Governor Sisolak’s Executive Order on climate change. The California Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) program, starting with sales of model year 2025 vehicles.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

The opportunity for fuel cell-powered ships has accelerated in recent years, as the International Maritime Organization (IMO) set aggressive environmental targets to combat climate change. We will lead the international standardization of fuel cell propulsion systems.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

This marks the most significant improvement in global fuel standards for the shipping industry in 100 years, and is intended to achieve significant health benefits on a global scale. pollution impacts in 2020 with and without the use of low-sulphur fuels. concentrations in 2020 due to low-sulfur fuel standards. —i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2012

Projected changes in summer mean usable capacity of power plants in the US and Europe for the SRES A2 emissions scenario for the 2040s (2031–2060) relative to the control period (1971–2000). A study published in Nature Climate Change suggests that thermoelectric power plants (i.e., Source: van Vliet et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

A new report from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finds that air pollution at US ports can be reduced significantly at all port types and sizes through a variety of strategies and cleaner technologies. national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2011

The FY 2011-2012 plan focused primarily on five areas of interest: sustainable communities; behavior and technology adoption; health and air pollution exposures; air pollution science; and greenhouse gas targets. The FY 2011-2012 Plan included four projects to support the goal of attaining air quality standards.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the completion of the Midterm Evaluation (MTE) process for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for cars and light trucks for model years 2022-2025, and his final determination that the current standards are not appropriate and should be revised.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

This article shows that including offsets in climate change legislation would likely make an emissions program more cost-effective by: (a) providing an incentive for non-regulated sources to generate emission reductions; and (b) expanding emission compliance opportunities for regulated entities. Assuming the offset is legitimate—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2017

The Review finds that the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards currently in place for model years 2022-2025 are readily feasible at or below the costs estimated back in 2012. An additional 78 model variants comprising hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), PHEVs, and BEVs also meet the 2020 or later standards. PM and criteria pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2022

This regulatory step will be complemented by new and ongoing investments including electric vehicle infrastructure progress, zero-emission vehicle incentives, and ensuring New York’s communities benefit from historic federal climate change investments. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2015

John Wall, Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of diesel engine manufacturer Cummins Inc., Haagen-Smit Clean Air Awards are given annually to individuals who have made significant lifetime contributions toward improving air quality and climate change science, technology and policy, furthering the protection of public health.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2011

Global and regional zonal mean temperature changes relative to 2010 due to non-CO 2. vehicle emissions under the baseline scenario (a) and the difference between the tight-standard and baseline scenarios (b). Bars on the right show uncertainty ranges for 2070, including contributions from both forcing and climate sensitivity (67%; CI).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a determination under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from certain types of aircraft engines contribute to the pollution that causes climate change and endangers Americans’ health and the environment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

ARB will hold a one-day workshop to discuss ARB staff’s preliminary thoughts and sources of information upon which to base the proposed standards and test procedures on 18 May, 2010, in El Monte, California. This second workshop will go into more detail in several areas related to criteria pollutant emissions and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In an open-access paper in the journal Environmental Research Letters , they examine how this damage can be mitigated, and provide consistent comparative assessments of aviation emissions trade-offs, considering both climate and air quality impacts. They cause five per cent of global climate forcing. —Dr Eastham.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to find under section 231(a) of the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from commercial aircraft engines endanger the health and welfare of Americans by contributing to climate change. The appropriate stringency levels for the CO 2 standard.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2017

CARB approved the State Strategy for the State Implementation Plan ( State SIP Strategy ), which describes CARB’s commitment for further reducing vehicle emissions needed to meet federal air quality standards over the next 15 years. The Board also approved the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s comprehensive air quality plan.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

Through a California Public Utilities Commission approved program, the utility is able to offer a reduced price by returning revenue generated from the sale of Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits to customers. The transportation sector is responsible for 41% of GHG emissions and 80% of smog forming pollution.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2024

The companies, Brooklyn-based Amogy and Osaka-based Yanmar , say they plan to combine their respective areas of expertise to develop power plants for ships that use Amogy’s advanced technology for cracking ammonia to produce hydrogen fuel for Yanmar’s hydrogen internal combustion engines. We have a long way to go.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The report is the culmination of MITEI’s three-year Mobility of the Future study, which is part of MIT’s Plan for Action on Climate Change. Armstrong, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. Green, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT and the study chair. —MITEI Director Robert C. —William H.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Our tests show that even in optimal conditions, with a full battery, the cars pollute more than advertised. Once the battery is flat, the three plug-in hybrids can only drive 11-23km in engine mode before they overshoot their official CO 2 emissions per km, T&E estimates. Transport & Environment (2020). ?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Persistent organic pollutants are chemicals of substantial international concern. The presence of these pollutants in the Arctic is important for several reasons. Organic pollutants typically condense and rain down into Arctic regions. —Noelle Selin, lead researcher.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2024

In response, governments, NGOs, and environmental watchdog groups are sounding alarms and advocating for urgent measures to mitigate pollution at the world’s ports. IEEE, along with IEC and ISO, have developed a joint standard, 80005, which is a series of three different standards for high-voltage and low-voltage connection.

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Emissions Los Angeles Grid Standards 94

Green Car Congress

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. In February 2012, the China State Council approved its first national ambient air quality standard for PM 2.5 , which will come into effect by the end of 2015.

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Coal Pollution China Gas 231

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2014

The Automaker Rankings report examines the emissions of both global warming and smog-forming pollution from of the automakers. Due to strong federal and state emissions standards, the average new car has gotten 43% cleaner since 1998. Climate Change Coal Emissions Fuel Efficiency' Source: UCS. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Among the direct transportation-related provisions in the extensive package are a low-carbon fuel standard for all transportation fuels; financial support for large scale demonstrations of electric vehicles; and financial support for automakers retooling plants to make electric vehicles. trucks, construction machines, ships and planes.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2010

The footprint-based standard CO 2 curves for cars (left) and trucks (right). Each manufacturer will have its own fleet-wide standard which reflects the vehicles it chooses it produce. system leakage) and indirect CO 2 emissions related to the increased load on the engine. Source: EPA. Click to enlarge. mpg US (6.9 mpg US (EPA).

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Water covers 72 percent of the Earth’s surface, its volumes host 80 percent of biodiversity and play a pivotal role in global phenomena, such as climate change. We can allow teams of robots to communicate and collaborate, to send data, get instructions, and change their mission in real time.” This blind spot is rather striking.

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Building Climate Change Italy Climate 101

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2012

Global-mean temperature change caused by car exhaust emitted from gasoline and diesel engines specified in the previous and upcoming European vehicle emission standards (EURO 3, 4, 5, and 6). Passenger transport affects climate through various mechanisms involving both long-lived—i.e. Credit: ACS, Tanaka et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

Five technology paths for very-low-NO x and GHG emissions from heavy-duty natural gas engines. SoCalGas), showcases the technologies currently under development that could deliver near-zero-emission heavy-duty natural gas engines by the end of this decade. California’s Climate Protection Strategies do not help meet NAAQS Standards.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. —Comer et al.

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Oil Panama Emissions Fuel 283

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

The world’s leading heavy-duty vehicle and engine manufacturing companies are urging the close cooperation between policy makers in Europe, the United States and Japan to develop practical and effective fuel-efficiency measurement metrics, methodologies and regulations which would then be used all around the globe.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Beyond 2025, ARB notes, the driving force for lowering emissions in California will thus be climate change. Advanced Clean Car (ACC) package, the ZEV regulation along with new LEV III smog-forming pollutant and GHG standards can be the catalyst to that transformative process. As the technology. —ARB staff.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 16, 2024

Army Corps of Engineers Construction Research Lab Commercial truck and locomotive engine maker Cummins , which has pledged to make all its heavy-duty road and rail vehicles zero-emission by 2050, won a $1 million competitive award to build the H2Rescue, which gets its power from a hydrogen fuel cell that charges its lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2016

is a leader in transportation tech, including next-generation advanced engines. Strong standards will encourage continued investment and drive advanced tech innovation and jobs in this sector. —David Johnson, president and CEO of opposed-piston engine developer Achates Power.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 21, 2024

First, some background from the New York Times : The rule increasingly limits the amount of pollution allowed from tailpipes over time so that, by 2032, more than half the new cars sold in the United States would most likely be zero-emissions vehicles in order for carmakers to meet the standards. It's just not.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The findings, published in the 21 September issue of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics , are generally consistent with official Chinese government statistics and could bolster their credibility as international negotiations proceed on commitments of China and other nations to combat climate change. Munger, J. McElroy, M. Nielsen, C.

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