Colorado and Ozone

TOAR shows present-day global ozone distribution and trends relevant to health; public database

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Ozone levels across much of North America and Europe dropped significantly between 2000 and 2014. People living in parts of southern Europe, South Korea and southern Japan and China also experienced more than 15 days a year of ozone levels above 70 ppb. Trends in daily maximum ozone levels (known as 4MDA8) at urban and non-urban sites.

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Ozone Global North America Colorado

Study finds pollution emitted near equator has biggest impact on global ozone

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

They found that the increase in ozone burden due to the spatial distribution change slightly exceeds the combined influences of the increased emission magnitude and global methane. Based on their findings, they suggested that emission increases in Southeast, East and South Asia may be most important for the ozone change.

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Ozone Pollution Global North Carolina

FHWA awards Colorado $30M for CNG fueling stations

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2013

These stations will help ensure an NGV owner can drive nearly anywhere across the state fueled by Colorado-produced gas. —Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper. The CMAQ funds received approval through a vote by the Colorado Transportation Commission. In 2011, Hickenlooper and Oklahoma Gov.

Colorado

Colorado Fuel Oklahoma Ozone

Study finds rising temperatures increase risk of unhealthy ozone levels absent sharp cuts in precursors

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2014

Ozone pollution across the continental United States will become far more difficult to keep in check as temperatures rise, according to new work led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Ozone formation. Even short periods of unhealthy ozone levels can cause local death rates to rise. Scenario A2 and RCP 8.5.

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Ozone Climate Change Pollution Climate

Using Ozone-Generated Bubbles to Remove Oil Sheen and Contaminants from Water

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A University of Utah engineer has developed an inexpensive new method to remove oil sheen by repeatedly pressurizing and depressurizing ozone gas, creating microscopic bubbles that attack the oil so it can be removed by sand filters. The ozone in the bubble attacks certain pollutants because it is a strong oxidant.

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Ozone Water Oil-Sands Oil

Modelling the Impact of PHEVs on Ozone in Denver

Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2010

Researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) modeled the emissions impact had plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) replaced light duty gasoline vehicles in the Denver, Colorado area in summer 2006. Brinkman et al. For other areas, where PM2.5 Brinkman et al.

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Denver Ozone PHEV Colorado

Study quantifies impact of oil and gas emissions on Denver’s ozone problem

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2016

The first peer-reviewed study to directly quantify how emissions from oil and natural gas (O&NG) activities influence summertime tropospheric ozone (O 3 ) pollution in the Colorado Front Range confirms that chemical vapors from oil and gas activities are a significant contributor to the region’s chronic ozone problem.

Ozone

Ozone Oil Gas Emissions

Study Concludes that Rocket Launches May Need Regulation to Prevent Ozone Depletion

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

The global market for rocket launches may require more stringent regulation in order to prevent significant damage to Earth’s stratospheric ozone layer in the decades to come, according to a new study by researchers in California and Colorado. Darin Toohey.

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Ozone Los Angeles Colorado Corporation

Satellite method provides insight into ozone-NOx-VOCs sensitivity for different locations

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Ozone pollution near Earth’s surface is one of the main ingredients of summertime smog. It is also not directly measurable from space due to the abundance of ozone higher in the atmosphere, which obscures measurements of surface ozone. —Jin et al.

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Ozone Insight Netherlands North America

Airborne measurements show ozone-forming VOCs emissions from ethanol plant higher than government estimates

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2015

VOCs and nitrogen oxides react with sunlight to form ground-level ozone, the main component of smog. The team also observed chemical transformations of the emissions from Decatur, including formation of new particles, nitric acid, peroxyacyl nitrates, aldehydes, ozone and sulfate aerosol.

Ozone

Ozone Emissions Colorado Coal

NOAA, partners find about 98% decline in VOCs concentrations in LA Basin over last 50 years despite 3x increase in use of gasoline and diesel

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2012

VOCs, primarily emitted from the tailpipes of vehicles, are a key ingredient in the formation of ground-level ozone which, at high levels, can harm people’s lungs and damage crops and other plants. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Gasoline Ozone 2002

Study finds some refrigerants less damaging to ozone layer can degrade to long-lived GHG CF4

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Some of the substitutes for ozone-damaging chemicals that being phased out worldwide under international agreements are themselves potent greenhouse gases and contribute to warming.

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Ozone Colorado Gas Carbon

EPA awards $6M in research funding to improve air quality models

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2020

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $5,959,842 million in research funding to nine institutions to improve air quality models used to simulate ozone, particulate matter (PM), regional haze, air toxics, and emerging pollutants. It will also inform the development of strategies for improving air quality.

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EPA Ozone Colorado Mercury

Colorado approves goal to make 82% of car sales electric by 2032

Teslarati

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Colorado has voted to approve a new standard on the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), with an additional goal set for 2032 and new guidance for increasing EV sales beginning in 2027. In 2019, Colorado also joined nine other states in adopting standards to accelerate the rollout of EVs in their regions. Tesla wants the U.S.

Colorado

Colorado Tax Credit Sale Cars

Study: consumer products overtake transportation as largest source of VOCs air pollution in cities

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The results, published in an open-access paper in the journal Science , suggest that the focus of efforts to mitigate ozone formation and toxic chemical burdens need to be adjusted, the authors suggested. Jathar, Colorado State University and UC Davis; Ali Akherati, Colorado State University; Jose L. Frost, James M.

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Pollution Transportation Production Los Angeles

International study finds air pollution leads to millions of hospital visits for asthma attacks worldwide

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Air pollution—specifically PM 2.5 , ozone and NO 2 —could be to blame for up to 33 million emergency asthma attack visits to hospital a year, according to a new open-access study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. 37% and 73% of ozone and PM 2.5 37% and 73% of ozone and PM 2.5

Pollution

Pollution Ozone International Aura

UCI-led study finds California’s strict air quality regulations have helped farmers

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2020

They found that reductions in ground ozone during this 35-year period resulted in $600 million in increased production annually by the early 2010s. Another difference is that some grains can be annually modified to withstand greater heat and even higher ozone levels in the air. An open-access paper on the work appears in Nature Food.

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Ozone Davis San Diego Pollution

Study finds that current approach to limiting wintertime pollution may initially backfire

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2019

The processes that create ozone pollution in the summer can also trigger the formation of wintertime air pollution, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA, in partnership with the University of Utah.

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Pollution Ozone Utah Denver

MIT study: half of US deaths related to air pollution are linked to out-of-state emissions

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Barrett and his colleagues developed such tools, drawing on fundamental work by Daven Henze at the University of Colorado at Boulder, to track how every state in the contiguous US affects pollution and health outcomes in every other state. and/or ozone. Early-death source–receptor matrices for 2011.

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MIT Pollution Emissions 2005

CU Boulder study: routine household activities generate air quality on par with major polluted city

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Cooking, cleaning and other routine household activities generate significant levels of volatile and particulate chemicals inside the average home, leading to indoor air quality levels on par with a polluted major city, according to a study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. Earlier post.).

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Pollution Ozone Clean Cleaning

Study finds significant slowdown in decrease of NOx emissions in US; implications for air quality management

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2018

They found that levels of pollutants that can contribute to the formation of ground-level ozone, or smog, have failed to continue a fairly steady decline as estimated by the US Environmental Protection Agency. These results show that meeting future air quality standards for ozone pollution will be more challenging than previously thought.

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Emissions Ozone Pollution EPA

Critical review finds actual measurement data on segments of natural gas lifecycle sparse or lacking

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2014

The team, from the Desert Research Institute, University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA, and Stanford University, began by defining a consistent vocabulary, first by jettisoning the popular umbrella label of “fracking” applied to unconventional oil and natural gas development. jobs vs environmental stewardship). —Moore et al. Moore et al.

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Gas Oil-Sands Emissions Oil

Researchers report on potential long-range atmospheric emissions impacts of increased ethanol fuel use in North America

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2012

This is accompanied by a modest regional decrease in surface ozone (of order 1%). Labels at left are months (e.g., DJF = December, January, February). Credit: ACS, Millet et al. Click to enlarge. Downwind of the continent, the lower NO x emissions are offset by increased NO x export efficiency associated with enhanced PAN formation.

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North America America Emissions Fuel

Gas lawn equipment is horrible for health – here’s how these cities are fixing it

Baua Electric

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in Colorado, lawn & garden equipment contributes about a third as much ozone as the Colorado’s large oil & gas industry, or also about a third as much as all on-road vehicles combined (including heavy duty trucks).

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Gas Gas-Electric Pollution Colorado

The Man Behind Hydrail

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. Thompson: The first one was the development of the first hydrogen mining locomotive, in Colorado.

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Charlotte Hydrogen IDEA Diesel

Study links ambient PM2.5 and ozone specifically caused by vehicle exhaust emissions to ~361,000 premature deaths worldwide in 2010 and ~385,000 in 2015

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2019

and ozone deaths, associated mortality rates, and population in G20 economies in 2015. and ozone worldwide in 2010 and ~385,000 in 2015, equivalent to 11.7% and ozone premature deaths in 2010 and 11.4% and ozone concentrations from transportation emissions resulted in 7.8 and ozone deaths in 2015, broken out by subsector.

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Ozone 2015 2010 Exhaust

New international study finds lab testing of diesel NOx emissions underestimates real-world levels by up to 50%

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2017

in collaboration with scientists at the University of York’s Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI); University of Colorado; and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, assessed 30 studies of vehicle emissions under real-world driving conditions in 11 major vehicle markets representing 80% of new diesel vehicle sales in 2015.

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Diesel International Emissions Ozone

EV Driven

TOAR shows present-day global ozone distribution and trends relevant to health; public database

Study finds pollution emitted near equator has biggest impact on global ozone

FHWA awards Colorado $30M for CNG fueling stations

Study finds rising temperatures increase risk of unhealthy ozone levels absent sharp cuts in precursors

Using Ozone-Generated Bubbles to Remove Oil Sheen and Contaminants from Water

Modelling the Impact of PHEVs on Ozone in Denver

Study quantifies impact of oil and gas emissions on Denver’s ozone problem

Study Concludes that Rocket Launches May Need Regulation to Prevent Ozone Depletion

Satellite method provides insight into ozone-NOx-VOCs sensitivity for different locations

Airborne measurements show ozone-forming VOCs emissions from ethanol plant higher than government estimates

NOAA, partners find about 98% decline in VOCs concentrations in LA Basin over last 50 years despite 3x increase in use of gasoline and diesel

Study finds some refrigerants less damaging to ozone layer can degrade to long-lived GHG CF4

EPA awards $6M in research funding to improve air quality models

Colorado approves goal to make 82% of car sales electric by 2032

Study: consumer products overtake transportation as largest source of VOCs air pollution in cities

International study finds air pollution leads to millions of hospital visits for asthma attacks worldwide

UCI-led study finds California’s strict air quality regulations have helped farmers

Study finds that current approach to limiting wintertime pollution may initially backfire

MIT study: half of US deaths related to air pollution are linked to out-of-state emissions

CU Boulder study: routine household activities generate air quality on par with major polluted city

Study finds significant slowdown in decrease of NOx emissions in US; implications for air quality management

Critical review finds actual measurement data on segments of natural gas lifecycle sparse or lacking

Researchers report on potential long-range atmospheric emissions impacts of increased ethanol fuel use in North America

Gas lawn equipment is horrible for health – here’s how these cities are fixing it

The Man Behind Hydrail

Study links ambient PM2.5 and ozone specifically caused by vehicle exhaust emissions to ~361,000 premature deaths worldwide in 2010 and ~385,000 in 2015

New international study finds lab testing of diesel NOx emissions underestimates real-world levels by up to 50%

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