Climate Change, Maryland and Pollution

3 East Coast states and DC first to participate in TCI-P cap-and-invest program for transportation

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2020

As part of the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI), Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Virginia have participated actively in developing the TCI-P and have the opportunity to join the program in the future. Jurisdictions will independently decide how to invest program proceeds.

Rhode Island

Rhode Island District of Columbia Transportation Connecticut

Nine states and DC to design regional approach to cap greenhouse gas emissions from transportation

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DECEMBER 20, 2018

A coalition of nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia announced their intent to design a new regional low-carbon transportation policy proposal that would cap and reduce carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels, and invest proceeds from the program into low-carbon and more resilient transportation infrastructure. (..)

District of Columbia

District of Columbia DC Transportation Rhode Island

GM and Stellantis to receive over $1 billion from Biden administration for EV projects

Teslarati

JULY 11, 2024

The facilities that would be supported by the grant are located in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, and Georgia. The projects are expected to create over 2,900 jobs and retain 15,000 highly skilled union workers, the US Department of Energy (DoE) noted.

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GM Indiana Grant Illinois

Lung Association report highlights health and climate costs of petroleum-based transportation and the benefits of shifting to ZEVs

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

Under this scenario, the estimated total health and climate change costs associated with passenger vehicle fleet pollution drops from to $37 billion annually to $15.7 —Bonnie Holmes-Gen, senior director of Air Quality and Climate Change with the American Lung Association in California. Maryland: $2.6

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Climate Cost Of Rhode Island Transportation

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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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Although China and India remain the world’s largest consumers of coal, a new University of Maryland-led study found that China’s sulfur dioxide emissions fell by 75% since 2007, while India’s emissions increased by 50%. Sulfur dioxide is an air pollutant that causes acid rain, haze and many health-related problems. Click to enlarge.

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India 2007 Emissions Aura

PNNL-led international study finds ultrafine aerosols have outsize impact on storm clouds, precipitation

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JANUARY 27, 2018

vehicles) and industrial air pollution—fuel powerful storms and influence weather much more than has been appreciated, according to a study published in the journal Science. Aerosol impacts are a key uncertainty in understanding the current and future climate as well as extreme weather. —Jiwen Fan.

International

International Brazil Climate Pollution

Next 10 report finds California must increase GHG reductions to 4.9%/year through 2030 to meet target

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

The largest one-year emissions drop California has ever achieved was at the height of the Great Recession in 2009, when climate pollution fell 6.1%. MTCO 2 e per person in 2017—the third-lowest among the 50 states, behind New York and Maryland. California’s energy-related emissions were 9.1 in 2017 to 40.9%

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California 2018 2019 2017

PNNL modeling study finds climate benefit for cutting soot, methane smaller than previous estimates

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AUGUST 13, 2013

Cutting the amount of short-lived, climate-warming emissions such as soot and methane won’t limit global warming as much as previous studies have suggested, according to a new study from the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Md.,

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Climate Pollution Carbon Emissions

New Research Tools for Assessing Impacts of Aerosols on Climate

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MARCH 13, 2009

Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Texas, Austin, have created a database that includes visibility measurements taken from 1973 - 2007 at 3,250 meteorological stations all over the world and released by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). University of Maryland Visibility Database.

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Climate Climate Change Maryland 2007

Study finds that worldwide SO2 emissions rose between 2000-2005 after decade of decline; China, shipping topped growth

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

To determine how much sulfur has been emitted between the approximate beginning of the Industrial Age, 1850, and 2005, Steven Smith of the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Md.—a The factors that determine total emissions are the amount of fuel consumed, its sulfur content, and any pollution controls employed.

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2005 2000 Emissions China

When You See Something, Say Something: Climate Emergency Alarm Bells Ringing While Local Electeds Pretend Not To Hear

Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Not my own City of Torrance, still content to suck at the monetary teat of the Torrance Refinery which continues to leak, flare and spew toxic pollution into the air we breathe every second of every day. So did Hoboken, New Jersey; New Britain, Connecticut; and Montgomery County, Maryland here in the USA. And that list is growing.

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Climate Los Angeles Chevron United Kingdom

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

MIT study suggests carbon tax could help reduce US deficit, lower other taxes, reduce emissions

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AUGUST 27, 2012

The third win—carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) pollution and oil imports would be reduced. Former Republican Congressmen Sherwood Boehlert from New York and Wayne Gilchrest from Maryland joined Congressional Democrats Henry Waxman (Calif.) —Rausch and Reilly (2012). and Ed Markey (Mass.)

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Tax MIT Carbon Emissions

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3 East Coast states and DC first to participate in TCI-P cap-and-invest program for transportation

Nine states and DC to design regional approach to cap greenhouse gas emissions from transportation

GM and Stellantis to receive over $1 billion from Biden administration for EV projects

Lung Association report highlights health and climate costs of petroleum-based transportation and the benefits of shifting to ZEVs

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

PNNL-led international study finds ultrafine aerosols have outsize impact on storm clouds, precipitation

Next 10 report finds California must increase GHG reductions to 4.9%/year through 2030 to meet target

PNNL modeling study finds climate benefit for cutting soot, methane smaller than previous estimates

New Research Tools for Assessing Impacts of Aerosols on Climate

Study finds that worldwide SO2 emissions rose between 2000-2005 after decade of decline; China, shipping topped growth

When You See Something, Say Something: Climate Emergency Alarm Bells Ringing While Local Electeds Pretend Not To Hear

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

MIT study suggests carbon tax could help reduce US deficit, lower other taxes, reduce emissions

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