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Study: 25% EV adoption would save US $17B annually from avoided climate change & pollution damages

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

A new study led by researchers from Northwestern University projects that if electric vehicles replaced 25% of combustion engine cars currently on the road, the United States would save approximately $17 billion annually by avoiding damages from climate change and air pollution.

Climate Change

Climate Change Pollution Climate 2014

EPA Proposes New Tougher Ground-Level Ozone Standards

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2010

Counties projected to violate proposed Primary 8-hour Ground-Level Ozone Standards in 2020. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has proposed the strictest standards to date for ground-level ozone. EPA is proposing an accelerated schedule for designating areas for the primary ozone standard.

Ozone

Ozone EPA Standards Arlington

Why Schools Should Electrify Their Bus Fleets

Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The transition away from gasoline and diesel vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs) is going full throttle in the United States, and that includes the iconic yellow school bus. Roughly half a million school buses transport about 20 million students each school day in the United States, and nearly all those buses currently run on diesel.

Fleet

Fleet Pollution Diesel Ozone

CARB approves $423M plan to mitigate harm from Volkswagen defeat devices; significant investments in heavy-duty vehicles and equipment sectors

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved a plan to mitigate statewide harm from more than 10,000 tons of smog-causing pollutants released in the state due to Volkswagen’s (VW) use of illegal “defeat devices” in diesel passenger cars. liter diesel passenger vehicles with illegal software in the United States.

Ozone

Ozone Vehicles Emissions California

Why Electric Buses Are the Healthy School Choice

Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Vehicle fleets across the United States are transitioning from internal combustion engine (ICE) to electric vehicles, and that includes school bus fleets. Individual states and electric utilities also have their own funding programs for transitioning school bus fleets.

Fleet

Fleet Electrical Electric United States

MECA report finds additional NOx emission reductions from new heavy-duty trucks achievable and cost-effective

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

NO x is a precursor for both ground level ozone and secondary PM 2.5 While the cost of new heavy-duty trucks has increased at approximately 1% per year, the cost of emission controls has come down, representing a lower percentage of the cost of a new truck.

Emissions

Emissions Diesel Engine 2010

The New Supersonic Boom

Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

The main obstacles will be regulatory and, especially, environmental: Supersonic airliners could be hugely more polluting than their subsonic counterparts. Although the United States chose not to participate in the development of the Concorde, in 1963 President John F. Kennedy announced plans to develop a U.S.

Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City Ozone Oklahoma Fuel

National Research Council report finds it unlikely the US will meet cellulosic biofuel mandates absent major innovation or a change in policies

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In the absence of major technological innovations or policy changes, the United States is unlikely to meet cellulosic biofuel mandates under the current Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) by 2022, according to a new report from the National Research Council.

Renewable

Renewable Tax Credit Conversion Fuel

COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

At the same time, however, we can already measure solid improvements in productivity and innovation: Since February 2020, some 60 percent of firms in the United Kingdom and in Spain have adopted new digital technologies, and 40 percent of U.K. New businesses came into being at a faster rate in the United States than in previous years.

Chad

Chad London Iceland Ozone

EPA proposes new standards to reduce methane and VOCs emissions from oil and gas industry

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2015

Methane is the second-most prevalent greenhouse gas emitted in the United States from human activities; nearly 30% of those emissions come from oil production and the production, transmission and distribution of natural gas. Costs and benefits. Net benefits are estimated at $35 million to $42 million.

EPA

EPA Oil Gas Industry

The Why, How, and Maybe Not of Geoengineering

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There is an exception to that in the category of what they call super pollutants, the very powerful but shorter-lived gases and chemicals that come from things like fertilizer production, methane. And so the cost of that right now is really, really high. So those are really important, and those are a little bit different.

Climate

Climate IDEA Mariner Carbon

Berkeley study identifies diesel as main source of vehicular secondary organic aerosols

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The United States and California state averages shown are based on total on- and off-road use. The use of petroleum-derived fuels is an important source of reactive gas-phase organic carbon that provides key precursors to the formation of secondary OA (SOA) and tropospheric ozone. Gentner et al. Click to enlarge.

Diesel

Diesel Los Angeles Exhaust Gasoline

EV Driven

Study: 25% EV adoption would save US $17B annually from avoided climate change & pollution damages

EPA Proposes New Tougher Ground-Level Ozone Standards

Why Schools Should Electrify Their Bus Fleets

CARB approves $423M plan to mitigate harm from Volkswagen defeat devices; significant investments in heavy-duty vehicles and equipment sectors

Why Electric Buses Are the Healthy School Choice

MECA report finds additional NOx emission reductions from new heavy-duty trucks achievable and cost-effective

The New Supersonic Boom

National Research Council report finds it unlikely the US will meet cellulosic biofuel mandates absent major innovation or a change in policies

COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

EPA proposes new standards to reduce methane and VOCs emissions from oil and gas industry

The Why, How, and Maybe Not of Geoengineering

Berkeley study identifies diesel as main source of vehicular secondary organic aerosols

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