Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A challenge for New York City's efforts to reduce the negative impacts of street-level flooding and noise pollution has been how to measure these issues effectively. Ultimately, the data and knowledge gained through FloodNet can be used by local residents, researchers, and city agencies to address flood risks.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 17, 2009

But surprisingly, a subject Elizabeth didn’t know a lot about is Tonga’s frontline role as a victim of the climate change crisis. Today all 3000 inhabitants of the Carteret Islands have been relocated as they become the first climate change refugees. They were “placed.&#. Mine too of course.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Yale researchers have found that organic aerosols—a type of air pollution—are much more complicated than previous studies indicated. Collected over three weeks at each site in the summer, samples were taken from a forest in Michigan, and from urban environments in Atlanta and New York City. —Ditto et al.

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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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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

By including upstream emissions from fuels, GHG emissions from cities exceed those attributed to direct end-use by up to 24% (for Toronto). They calculated emissions for ten cities (or metropolitan regions), which vary in population from 432,000 to 9,519,000; comparisons are in per capita terms. with New York City also high.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In addition, the Governor directed the Department of Environmental Conservation to release the proposed Advanced Clean Truck regulation that would significantly reduce air pollution from trucks. New York is investing more than $1 billion in zero emissions vehicles over the next five years.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

When life cycle air pollution and greenhouse gas emission externalities are internalized via a Pigovian tax, fleet electrification increases and externalities decrease, suggesting a role for policy. Air pollution is a classic case where free markets fail.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Revel developed the site with New York City’s Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). The big challenge with EV ownership when living in New York City is access to public chargers. ” Revel has had this new station at Pier 36 in the works for some time. It’s finally here.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

At Daimler Trucks & Buses we are clearly committed to the goals of the Paris Climate Protection Agreement and thus to the decarbonization of our industry. More than 140 eCanter are already in customer service in cities worldwide, including New York City, Tokyo, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Lisbon.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This question of whether climate change becomes so bad that we have to do something to dull its impacts and reduce human suffering is a very big one,” says Keutsch, an atmospheric chemist. For many, the mere idea of purposefully intervening in the climate system is problematic and worth shutting down before it gains traction.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 2, 2024

On today’s electrifying episode of Quick Charge , we’ve got Sylvie Binder from the New York City Mayor’s Office here to tell us about the newly launched North American Electric Construction Coalition (NAECC) is committed to decarbonizing the construction industry, and NYC is already making serious headway.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This enormous growth has at least in part been driven by the aim of reducing vehicle carbon emissions to address climate change concerns. Chow has focused some his recent research on developing the infrastructure for charging electric vehicles throughout New York City. NYU Tandon.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Funded by the federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) formula funding program, the States new competitive Downstate Direct Current Fast Charger (DCFC) program will improve consumer access to reliable electric vehicle (EV) charging. both CCS and J3400, or Tesla/NACS ), will be prioritized for the new funding.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 15, 2021

Originally published on RMI.org. By Christian Roselund, Ali Rotatori, Ben Holland With the promise of vaccines curtailing the spread of COVID, states and economies are beginning to open up again, and we find ourselves getting back not only the good but also some of the negative aspects of pre-pandemic life.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 11, 2024

It takes attention away from micromobility, better urban infrastructure, and other strategies to improve the safety, pollution, climate, equity and economic returns of this sector. The company is also testing operations in 25 other major metro areas , including Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami, and New York City.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The Mack electric truck is part of a $10-million program by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to reduce emissions by using zero-emission trucks in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx, which suffers from some of the worst air quality in New York City.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. presidential election, it seemed that we were entering one of those rare windows where you might see substantial policy action on climate and clean energy. C in this century. clean-tech legislation.

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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. Here in New York City, where we have a population density that supports a mass transit system, most of our fossil fuel use is to power our buildings.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

(Credit: GM) General Motors and Segway plan to take a two-wheel concept vehicle for a spin around New York City on Tuesday. The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Photo by Billy Hathorn The Biden-Harris EPA’s new air quality rules introduced from 2021-2024 will save Americans $253 billion annually, and save 202,632 lives and avoid 100 million asthma attacks by 2050, according to a new analysis by the Environmental Protection Network (EPN).

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