Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Among the non-CO 2 pollutants are hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), methane, tropospheric ozone, and black carbon soot. The next round of UN climate negotiations begins in Cancun today. ” The authors go on to say that reducing the non-CO 2 pollutants can delay additional climate warming by several decades.

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Micronesia Pollution Ozone Global 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

The system will graph lifecycle impact for a range of specified powertrains, for a large number of impact categories: Climate change [kg CO 2 -eq.]. Deterioration of the ozone layer [kg CFC-11-eq.]. The top sample above shows climate change impact; the subsequent chart shows human toxicity. Terrestrial toxicity [kg 1,4-DC.-eq.].

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Mariner Climate Change DC Cars 435

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2010

A study by researchers at Lund University in Sweden found that Swedish biofuels produce between 65 and 148% less greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline and diesel, even when direct and indirect land use changes are taken into account. Tags: Biodiesel Biomethane Climate Change Ethanol Europe.

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Climate Waste Climate Change Sweden 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2020

in 2018 (2000-2018 average year-over-year increase is 6.8%), continuing the increasing trend as they replace Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) being phased out under the 1987 Montreal Protocol. All these climate programs have considerably more stringent emissions reduction targets starting in 2021. tons per person to 10.7

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2020 Emissions California 2018 221

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Health and other non-climate damages by life-cycle component for different combinations of fuels and light-duty automobiles in 2005 (top) and 2030 (bottom). Damages are expressed in cents per VMT (2007 USD). Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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2005 Cost Of Energy Coal 246

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2016

The traffic prohibitions are part of the creation of Israel’s first low-emission zone, an area restricted to polluting diesel vehicles. Diesel vehicles, while responsible for only 20% of the kilometers traveled, contribute 75% of the fine particles emitted by transportation. emissions in the region.

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Israel Emissions Diesel Pollution 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

Funding priorities through the ARFVT Program support fuel and vehicle development to help attain the state’s climate change policies. This will support the district’s plan to replace its aging fleet of 50 diesel school buses with natural gas buses. million ZEVs on the state’s roads. The agreement includes $175,000 in match funding.

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Green Vehicles California 2014 2013 295

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2019

Biofuels such as ethanol, biodiesel, and renewable diesel can displace fossil fuels and reduce the amount of fossil-based CO 2 emissions released into the atmosphere. The percent of biodiesel and renewable diesel in the total diesel blend have shown a significant growth in recent years, going from 1% in 2012 to 18% in 2017.

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2017 2016 Transportation Emissions 230

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2011

Sustainable Communities : The Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008 (SB 375) directs California’s metropolitan planning organizations to develop sustainable communities strategies that meet regional greenhouse gas reduction targets through integrated land use, housing and transportation planning.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2018

So far, ammonia has been considered as a fuel when blended with gasoline, diesel, hydrogen and methane fuels to reduce the proportion of carbon-based fuels and their emissions that contribute to climate change. Production plants already exist because ammonia is widely used in fertilizers.

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Emissions Hydrogen Fuel Global 308

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Implementing these approaches, the report finds, would reduce greenhouse gas and other harmful emissions from diesel-powered ships, trucks and other port equipment. Many ports and related freight corridors and facilities are located in nonattainment or maintenance areas for EPA’s ozone and PM 2.5 Click to enlarge.

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Pollution EPA Cleaner Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Here, RME show advantages for primary energy and GHG, but disadvantages in terms of acidification, eutrophication and ozone depletion. From 2007 to 2008, the share of ethanol in global gasoline type fuel use was estimated to increase from 3.78% to 5.46%, and the share of biodiesel in global diesel type fuel use from 0.93% to 1.5%.

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Ozone Water Emissions Oil 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a revised draft of California’s proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Strategy. SLCPs may account for an estimated 40% of global warming, increasing the impacts of climate change. —“Revised Proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy”.

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Pollution California Emissions Waste 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Medium- and heavy-duty on-road trucks and buses are a significant source of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG); diesel particulate matter 2.5 microns or less (PM 2.5 ); and NO x emissions that lead to ozone and secondary PM. Statewide, they are responsible for 35% of the NO x emissions, 26% of the PM 2.5

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Grant Commercial Emissions California 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2015

ARB staff developed this strategy using a multi-pollutant scenario planning tool ( Vision 2.0 ) that quantifies changes in ozone and PM 2.5 precursor emissions; GHG emissions; petroleum usage; and diesel toxics emissions as various technologies become widespread in vehicle and equipment fleets. Vision 2.0

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Clean Cleaning Emissions Cleaner 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The design of the California cap-and-trade program allows linkage with programs established by partner jurisdictions in the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) to create a regional market system. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Fuels Policy. The program is expected to reduce GHG emissions between 18 and 27 MMTCO 2 e in 2020.

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2015 Transportation Fuel Emissions 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

While that report projected vessel activity, it did not explore the environmental impacts of increased shipping in terms of air emissions or the potential climate impacts from increases in short-lived climate pollutants such as black carbon. The emissions report focuses on the low- and mid-range diversion scenarios—i.e.,

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Pollution Emissions Fuel Mariner 150

Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Key Steps to Cleaning Southern California’s Air Diesel Class 8 trucks run seemingly tail-to-nose from the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to the Inland Empire in Southern California. Last mile trucks like Amazon’s are moving to EVs Almost all of those trucks run on diesel, but change is coming. Even the U.S.

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All-Electric Long Beach Los Angeles Electric 98

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2023

The proposal retains the proven regulatory design of previous EPA standards for light-duty vehicles, but leverages advances in clean car technology to further reduce both climate pollution and smog- and soot-forming emissions.

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EPA Light Standards Emissions 210

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In 2004, the Centralina region (the Greater Charlotte metro area, which straddles the North CarolinaSouth Carolina border) was designated as a non-attainment area for ozone under the Clean Air Act. What was the initial inspiration to have a train that runs on hydrogen instead of diesel? Thats the way diesel became widely available.

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Charlotte Hydrogen IDEA Diesel 101

Green Charging

MARCH 15, 2021

Further, the Department for Transport in the UK has declared that it will have banned all conventional petrol and diesel cars by 2030. Global warming plays a role in thinning the ozone layer, thus permitting harmful rays’ penetration to the earth. Address climate emergency- the climate is changing rapidly.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles Dealers Electrical 52

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2009

Reducing emissions of black carbon soot and ground-level ozone would quickly make a considerable dent in the climate change problem and would also contribute to public health and protect crop yields, according to an essay in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. Besides a danger to breathe, ozone lowers crop yields.

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Climate Change Ozone Climate Carbon 262

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2011

The climate change benefit is estimated for a given year (2050) and human health and crop benefits are. Fast action on pollutants such as black carbon, ground-level ozone and methane may help limit near term global temperature rise and significantly increase the chances of keeping temperature rise below 2 °C (3.6 °F)—and

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Ozone Carbon Climate Change Global 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

A new report prepared by the World Bank at the request of the G8 identifies ways that the World Bank can do more through its projects to reduce the emission of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs): black carbon, methane, tropospheric ozone, and fluorinated gases known as HFCs. Black carbon Climate Change Emissions'

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Pollution Climate Transportation Climate Change 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Freight transportation is a pillar of the US national economy, but while long-haul trucks account for less than 6% of the vehicle miles traveled over US highways, they account for about 40% of the emissions of air polluting particulate matter and about 55% of nitrogen oxides, the precursor to ozone in the atmosphere, the study said.

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Emissions Diesel Ozone United States 286

My Energi

MARCH 11, 2021

What I do know, is how fossil fuel vehicles have contributed heavily to poor air quality in our towns and cities, damage to the environment, soil and water quality and have contributed to the depletion of the ozone layer! Maybe, by contrast the Tesla shouts ‘look I’m doing it!’

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Buy Electric Cars Cars Petrol 52

Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2011

Climate response to non-CO 2 vehicle emissions. Bars on the right show uncertainty ranges for 2070, including contributions from both forcing and climate sensitivity (67%; CI). Bars on the right show uncertainty ranges for 2070, including contributions from both forcing and climate sensitivity (67%; CI). Shindell et al.

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Climate Standards Emissions Climate Change 231

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2012

Circle areas are proportional to values for (A and B) climate change, (C and D) human health (values for population over age 30), and (E and F) agriculture. Methane is both a potent greenhouse gas and an important precursor to ground-level ozone. Ozone, a key component of smog and also a greenhouse gas, damages crops and human health.

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Carbon Ozone Emissions International 257

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

However, climate models to date have mischaracterized the effects of soot in the atmosphere, according to Jacobson, director of Stanford’s Atmosphere/Energy Program. The most immediate, effective and low-cost way to reduce soot emissions is to put particle traps on vehicles, diesel trucks, buses, and construction equipment.

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Global Ozone CO2 Pollution 230

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2017

A new international study has found that laboratory tests of nitrogen oxide emissions from diesel vehicles significantly underestimate the real-world emissions by as much as 50%. For light-duty vehicles, such as passenger cars, trucks, and vans, the European Union produced nearly 70% of the excess diesel nitrogen oxide emissions.

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Diesel International Emissions Ozone 230

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2009

Farm machines burning oil, gasoline and diesel release nitrogen to the air. Wastes from cattle, chickens and other livestock include nitrogen.

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Davis Escape Ozone California 240

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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Climate Change Pollution Climate Ozone 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2016

Volvo will be deploying a plug-in hybrid electric diesel truck under the Mack brand. The California Climate Investment funds (generated from the GHG Cap & Trade program) were matched by approximately $16.4 Full battery-electric trucks will be developed by BYD and a team consisting of Peterbilt and California start-up TransPower.

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Peterbilt Kenworth California Volvo 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2015

Emission reductions produced by the project are verified by an approved third party and registered with the Climate Action Reserve (Project ID CAR102 ). TDI (diesel), both in the basic versions with standard equipment. ozone depletion potential (ODP). photochemical ozone creation potential. Click to enlarge. TSI, at 31.3

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Carbon Personal Store Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Furthermore, this would also deliver a net annual reduction of at least 200 MtCO 2 e from short-lived climate pollutants in 2030 (using GWP-100 values). Climate benefits in the near-term (estimated using a GWP-20) are more than three times as large given the rapid benefits that the control of black carbon provides. Chambliss et al.

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Emissions Global Fuel Vehicles 220

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2016

Benefits include meeting the state’s freight infrastructure, public health, air quality and climate goals. The Executive Order directs the state agencies to pursue a shared vision to “ improve freight efficiency, transition to zero-emission technologies and increase the competitiveness of California’s freight system.

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Pollution California Transportation Concept 150