Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2022

A new NOAA study covering four decades of tropical cyclones found that reducing particulate air pollution in Europe and North America has contributed to an increase in the number of tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic basin and a decrease in the number of these storms in the Southern Hemisphere. Credit: NOAA.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Uber is adding more polluting car trips to already-clogged European cities such as London and Paris, new analysis by European NGOs suggests —contributing to air pollution and climate change and exploding the company’s sustainability claims. Uber’s CEO tells us they ‘do the right thing, period.’

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Innovation News Network

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The post How soil is contributing to climate change appeared first on Innovation News Network. Research suggests that nitrogen released by gas-powered machines causes dry soil to let go of carbon and release it back into the atmosphere.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2023

Through 2042, EPA estimates the net climate and health benefits of the standards on new gas and existing coal-fired power plants are up to $85 billion. They also provide owners and operators of power plants with lead time and compliance flexibilities.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Air pollution in India resulted 1.67 million deaths in 2019—the largest pollution-related death toll in any country in the world—and also accounted for $36.8 The 2019 death toll attributed to air pollution in India accounted for 17.8% Pollution takes an enormous human toll in India. It is causing 1.67

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Researchers at Columbia University, with colleagues at Boston University and Abt Associates, have identified concentration-response (C-R) functions for a number of adverse health outcomes in children associated with air pollutants largely from fossil fuel combustion. A paper on their work is published in journal Environmental Research.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2020

This is important for policymakers when forecasting and influencing future emissions paths in the context of climate change. The reasons were two-fold: (i) increased air pollution led to households staying indoors more to mitigate the pollution impact; and (ii) PM 2.5 pollution ranges between 20 and 200 ?g/m³.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

An international team of scientists, led by NTU Singapore, has linked increased air pollution to an uptick in cases of lung adenocarcinoma (LADC) worldwide. Black carbon is a pollutant that is classified as under PM 2.5. Our findings pinpoint the necessity and urgency to reduce air pollutant emissions especially black carbon.

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Innovation News Network

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Learn more about how airborne microplastics circulate in the biosphere and impact biodiversity and climate change. The post How do airborne microplastics contribute to climate change? appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Baua Electric

JULY 11, 2024

Importantly, climate change helped this storm break these records and do so much damage. Only 4% of media’s Beryl coverage included mention of climate change, according to an analysis by Media Matters. That said, we must remember that “ weather is not climate.” MSNBC trailed with 2 mentions in 46 segments.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

Fortunately, we still have a narrow window of opportunity to alter the Earth’s climate path, and I believe we can do it. Climate change is a global societal crisis that is causing devastating consequences. To create a sustainable environment, we need to contain air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In an open-access report in the journal Environmental Pollution , researchers from UCLA and the University of Chicago estimate that California’s wildfire carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e) emissions from 2020 (~127 mmt CO 2 e ) are approximately two times higher than California’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions since 2003.

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Innovation News Network

AUGUST 15, 2022

Marc Hannis, Principal of Ofwat’s Water Innovation Fund, outlines the impacts of climate change on the water cycle. The post Mitigating the impacts of climate change on the water cycle appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is one of the reasons why Tesla’s products and services are focused on transportation and energy production and storage — segments that are traditionally the most polluting in both the United States and foreign countries. . In 2020, Tesla customers helped accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy by avoiding 5.0

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

General Motors for the first time achieved perfect scores on both climate change data disclosure and performance submitted to CDP , the world’s only global environmental disclosure system. The CDP program enables management of greenhouse gas emissions and risks and opportunities associated with climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2013

Moving to further strengthen California’s ties with China, California Air Resources Board Chairman Mary Nichols and Director of the Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission Xu Anliang signed a memorandum of understanding in Shenzhen that will expand cooperation at the subnational level to tackle global climate change.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The study analyzed data on total zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) registrations, air pollution levels, and asthma-related emergency room visits throughout California from 2013 to 2019. The post EVs like Tesla are cutting pollution levels and reducing health problems: study appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2019

The paper, published in Nature Sustainability , presents how researchers have estimated for the first time the health damages caused by corn production using detailed information on pollution emissions, pollution transport by wind, and human exposure to increased air pollution levels. a, Absolute mortality. per bushel (56.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2020

Levels of two major air pollutants have been reduced significantly since lockdowns began in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a secondary pollutant—ground-level ozone—has increased in China, according to new research. The temperature data are from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (2017).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Jacobson, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, suggests that carbon capture technologies are inefficient and increase air pollution. However, this research finds that it reduces only a small fraction of carbon emissions, and it usually increases air pollution. A study by Mark Z.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2016

Achieving this would increase the cost of the global energy system by roughly USD $290 billion per year in 2030, but the savings achieved through this doubling—due to avoided expenditures on air pollution and climate change—are up to 15 times higher than this cost.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) warns that the health of Europe’s most vulnerable citizens remains disproportionately affected by environmental hazards such as air and noise pollution and extreme temperatures, especially in Europe’s eastern and southern regions, despite overall improvements in Europe’s environmental quality.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2019

Long-term exposure to ambient air pollutants, especially O 3 (ozone), is significantly associated with increasing emphysema, according to a new study led by the University of Washington, Columbia University and the University at Buffalo. Ground-level ozone is mostly produced when ultraviolet light reacts with pollutants from fossil fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2021

We need to understand this multiphase chemistry in the atmosphere to design an efficient strategy to manage air pollution and accurately predict future air pollution and climate change impacts. It’s just that there is a reaction which partially mitigates the reductions.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 28, 2024

I just saw word from Transport & Environment thanks to one of our news aggregators here that three “polluting carmakers” were among the 10 companies to receive the most European Union “green funds” investments. continued] The post 3 Oil Companies & 3 Polluting Carmakers Among Top 10 Recipients of Green Funds!

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Among the many climate-related vulnerabilities that can impact its mission, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cites a likely increase in tropospheric ozone pollution as potentially making it more difficult to attain National Ambient Air Quality Standards ( NAAQS ) in many areas with existing ozone problems.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a letter to President Obama describing six key components the advisory group believes should be central to the Administration’s strategy for addressing climate change. Improving coordination and support for research efforts on climate change preparedness.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Greater reliance on energy taxation is needed to strengthen efforts to tackle the principal source of both greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, according to a new OECD report. Aligning energy prices with the costs of climate change and air pollution is a core element of cost-effective policy, and vast improvements are urgently needed.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 7, 2024

continued] The post Washington State Passes Cutting-Edge Policies To Reduce Climate Pollution appeared first on CleanTechnica. Proposed by Puget Sound Energy, the bill allows the utility to merge electric and gas customers into a single rate.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

Schematic diagram of the trade-offs between the implications for regional air quality and global climate change of new policies for management of the atmosphere. In the CalNex 2010 study outlined here, NOAA researchers are studying several issues at the heart of the coupled air quality and climate change problems.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Noting the references in scientific and policy literature to the need for fast-action mitigation to help avoid DAI and abrupt climate changes, the authors define “fast-action” to include regulatory measures that can begin within 2–3 years, be substantially implemented in 5–10 years, and produce a climate response within decades.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

E-bikes are essential to efforts to address not only climate change, but urban pollution, congestion, and many other problems. But, like any good thing, there’s always a temptation to give into fear and try to control new technologies with an iron fist. In this article, I’m going to discuss why.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

signed SB 1383 , establishing the nation’s toughest restrictions on super pollutants including black carbon, fluorinated gases and methane. The law is in addition to California’s existing raft of climate legislation. Reducing these pollutants can have a more immediate beneficial impact on climate change.

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Green Energy Consumers

JULY 8, 2024

greatly understates the value that electric vehicles bring to us in terms of reducing pollution causing both global warming and severe health problems. A June 18 Boston Globe story, “ If even the secretary of transportation won’t take the train, who will?

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Innovation News Network

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

New research suggests that the impacts of air pollution differ drastically depending on the location where the pollutants are emitted. The post How does air pollution affect where you live? appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Electrek

APRIL 26, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The head of the UK’s MI6 says it checks that industrial nations are “playing fair” on climate change promises. more… The post EGEB: British secret service is spying on countries’ polluting actions appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2013

US Congressman Scott Peters (CA-52) introduced the Super Pollutant Emissions Reduction Act (SUPER Act) of 2013, legislation aimed at combating short-lived climate pollutants, which are only somewhat addressed by disparate government programs. C in projected cumulative warming by 2050 and 1.1 °C

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