Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2020

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have conducted a statistical analysis of pollution exposure and yields from 1980 to 2015 on a key sector making up about 38% of the state’s total agricultural output: perennial crops such as almonds, grapes, nectarines, peaches, strawberries and walnuts. Mueller, N.D.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

An annual ' tracking the progress of California Climate Investments, released by the California Air Resources Board and the California Department of Finance, finds that nearly $1.4 billion in new funding last year went to projects across all of California’s 58 counties—almost double the $720 million spent in 2017. To date, $9.3

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2013

In California, reductions in emissions of black carbon since the late 1980s—mostly from diesel engines as a result of air quality programs—have resulted in a measurable reduction of concentrations of global warming pollutants in the atmosphere, according to a study examining the impact of black carbon on California’s climate.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2018

results indicate that traffic is the dominating source of BC and particulate air pollution in the metropolitan area of La Paz/El Alto. Soot particles from combustion processes significantly contribute to air pollution because they contain heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons which are toxic. Tilo Arnhold.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 3, 2009

“Pack Up Your Toxic, Fossil Fuel Factory With Its Climate-Changing Products & Get Out of Town By 2020!&# Consider this fair and legal warning, world’s largest and most polluting oil company - I’m giving you 10 years to pack up and hit the road. Greenius Rules. Uncertainty. So that refinery much go.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The leaders of the world have just returned from the UN's latest climate change summit, COP26 , in which the countries that have signed on to the Paris Agreement upped their commitments to fight climate change. IEEE Spectrum : What role does Silver Lining play in climate research or advocacy? In 2015, the U.S.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 11, 2018

I worked for years to help redefine Chevron’s role at solar-powered Staples Center as part of Chevron’s every home game promotion aimed at children. Even though my bit is funny Chevron is one of the biggest polluters and destroyers of a livable climate on planet Earth, and they’ve acted like a classic crime organization.

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

As the world continues to face climate change challenges, it is becoming increasingly critical that we transition to more sustainable energy sources. Renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, is a more environmentally friendly and cleaner alternative to traditional fossil fuels.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Ironically, Governor Abbott targeted renewable energy just as The New York Times was writing that Texas’ grid trouble is a sign of disruption to come as climate change induces more and more extreme weather events. to phase in renewable energy to achieve carbon pollution-free generation by 2035. Credit: The Texas Tribune.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The proposal calls for what’s known as “solar geoengineering”: cooling the planet by deflecting sunlight that would otherwise strike the planet. Little is known about how, or whether, solar geoengineering might work and how the particles would react and move in the stratosphere. There were nearly 40 million such flights in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

A new study by led by Nadine Unger at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) that analyzes the net climate impacts of emissions from economic sectors rather than by individual chemical species has found that on-road transportatation is and will be the greatest net contributor to atmospheric warming now and in the near term.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The finding could further complicate attempts to model climate change. The team showed that the effect of aerosols on the climate since industrialisation depends strongly on what the atmosphere was like before pollution, when aerosols were produced only from natural emissions. —Carslaw et al.

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Our principal goal should be to mitigate problems that are global in scale, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, virus transmission, and invasive species. Windmills can harm migrating birds, and solar cells require toxic substances to be manufactured. Wind and solar farms are alternatives to fossil fuel-fired power plants.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 11, 2018

I worked for years to help redefine Chevron’s role at solar-powered Staples Center as part of Chevron’s every home game promotion aimed at children. Even though my bit is funny, Chevron is one of the biggest polluters and destroyers of a livable climate on planet Earth, and they’ve acted like a classic crime organization.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted its final Report to Congress on Black Carbon , in response to an October 2009 request from Congress to advance efforts to understand the role of black carbon (BC) in climate change. BC suspended in the atmosphere absorbs some incoming solar radiation, heating the atmosphere.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2018

However, emissions do not just remain in conurbations; particles and gaseous pollutants can be transported thousands of kilometers by the wind. The University of Bremen is the scientific base of the international project known as EMeRGe (Effect of Megacities on the transport and transformation of pollutants on the Regional and Global scales).

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You can go to festivals and visit the booths of green nonprofits and solar energy companies, take part in composting workshops, learn about wildlife protectors and electric car companies. But what you cannot do at any Earth Day event – or any other day’s events – is change the sense of urgency of the U.S.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 8, 2009

In a deal brokered by the city’s newly commissioned Citizens Environmental Task Force, Exxon/Mobil, owners of the Exxon/Mobil Refinery in the City of Torrance agreed today to fund a bond that will make low cost financing of solar energy systems for home and apartment owners. That’s too much democracy for Torrance.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 26, 2016

.” He always was so ahead of the curve… Like I say, I live in Torrance, home of the exploding Exxon Mobil refinery where our Air Quality Management District just gave the refinery operators exemptions to exceed pollution limits while they restart the aging climate wrecker back up. .

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2017

CARB also adopted a new plan to curb destructive “super pollutants” including black carbon, fluorinated gases and methane. The plan, California’s Short-lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy, maps out the route to more rapid greenhouse gas reductions by clamping down on these super pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. billion in FY 2014 budget); Assessing climate-change impacts in the United States; Launching a climate data initiative; and. Providing a toolkit for climate resilience.

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Plug in America

DECEMBER 17, 2020

My ex and I got solar at home on his birthday in 2002, then our first EV, the RAV4, a couple months later, on the winter solstice. Finally, I was doing something that could really make a dent in climate change. And with the solar panels, I was driving on sunshine. . And with the solar panels, I was driving on sunshine. .

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You can go to festivals and visit the booths of green nonprofits and solar energy companies, take part in composting workshops, learn about wildlife protectors and electric car companies. But what you cannot do at any Earth Day event – or any other day’s events – is change the sense of urgency of the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

Jacobson used a computer model of global climate, air pollution and weather that he developed over the last 20 years and updated to include additional atmospheric processes to analyze how soot can heat clouds, snow and ice. 1990; Anisimov, 2007] and chemical production of ozone in already-polluted locations [Jacobson, 2008b].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2009

Particulate pollution thought to be holding climate change in check by reflecting sunlight instead enhances warming when combined with airborne soot, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego. Soot, also called black carbon, absorbs solar energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

power from renewable sources—wind, solar, geothermal, biomass or landfill gas, hydropower, and marine and hydrokinetic—for retail electricity suppliers beginning at 6% in 2012 and gradually rising to 25% in 2025 and continuing at that level through 2039. Global Warming Pollution Reduction Program. light duty vehicles—e.g.,

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

As the climate change crisis goes from bad to worse (while the deniers get nuttier and more cult-like with each passing day) and Australia gives Californians an advanced sneak preview at what is without a doubt headed our way sooner than you expect , your Creative Greenius has only gotten more Fired Up, Ready to Go!

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

“ But some scientists say that weaning the world off coal is crucial to slowing the devastating effects of climate change. As in every major recognized science organization and association? “ Really, Los Angeles Times? “ Some Scientists?&# That’s your report? You actually printed that?

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

How fast can you ramp your power plants up and down to handle the variability from wind and solar? Energy Information Administration (EIA) and IEA vastly under project ed wind and solar deployments. We did downscaling of where you would build all the wind and solar generation that the model suggested.

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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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My Energi

APRIL 13, 2021

Join lifestyle influencers Coral Golding, Dean Bartle, Grace Beverly and share your eco changes on social media, remembering to tag us when you do! To take it one step further, at myenergi we have designed the world’s first solar compatible EV charger – zappi. Don’t know where to begin? Energy saving hacks.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

So, I think it would be a better option to be a part of an organization that focuses on electric vehicles. #2 By reducing reliance on fossil fuels, EVs help to mitigate climate change and improve air quality. The absence of engine noise enhances the driving experience and reduces noise pollution in urban areas.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 5, 2011

In case you didn’t know, the City of Los Angeles still gets 40% of its electricity from coal-fired power plants, the dirtiest polluters and greenhouse gassers on the planet. The group will spend about 30 minutes decorating our bikes (organizers will have some signs and materials for you but please bring your own materials as well).

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 5, 2011

In case you didn’t know, the City of Los Angeles still gets 40% of its electricity from coal-fired power plants, the dirtiest polluters and greenhouse gassers on the planet. The group will spend about 30 minutes decorating our bikes (organizers will have some signs and materials for you but please bring your own materials as well).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Vulcanol is CRI’s brand name for renewable methanol, produced from CO 2 and hydrogen from renewable sources of electricity (hydro, geothermal, wind and solar). Click to enlarge. Most recently, methanol-fueled prototypes are being tested in 3 provinces of China. These strategies are closely linked to the economy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2012

wind, solar, electric) are not yet at the stage where they can significantly impact petroleum use. Additional benefits of reduced combustion temperatures include lower particulate and toxic gas emissions which are important considerations in global climate change. At the present time, sustainable energy technologies (e.g.,

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