Electrek

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Food trucks in the US are huge business, and huge polluters with noisy generators spewing noxious fumes into the air, making that artisan taco a little less palatable.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

A recent study also indicates that increases in particulate pollution is associated with higher death rates among COVID-19 patients. In California, the transportation sector accounts for nearly 80% of the state’s air pollution and more than 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions. HDR completed the study.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

When airborne particles (green) form before PAHs adhere, both the pollutants and particles dissipate quickly, as shown in the top row. But when the particles form in the presence of pollutants, which is what likely happens in nature, the longer-lasting particles enable the long-range transport of the pollutants (bottom).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2009

PetroCard , a fuels distributor, and Waste Management, a provider of comprehensive waste management services, announced the grand opening of a “Clean N’ Green Fuel” compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station in South Seattle— the first public-access CNG facility in the city. Waste Management has 108 CNG trucks in their Seattle area fleet.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2018

The Seattle-based company received a notice of violation for failing to repower, retire or retrofit its cargo-handling equipment at the ports of Long Beach and Oakland, and for failing to certify large spark ignition engines on yard trucks servicing those terminals, as required by state law. million settlement with SSA Containers, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

With ride-hailing services now providing more trips nationally than taxis, the growth of ride-hailing has directly contributed to increased local pollution and exacerbated traffic congestion in dense urban areas.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Built by Seattle-based Foss Maritime, it began working the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in January 2009. criteria pollutants—nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, particulate matter—and the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide were measured based on the ISO 8178 protocols. Each array stores 170.1 Emissions of.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The mayors of London, Paris, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Quito, Vancouver, Mexico City, Milan, Seattle, Auckland and Cape Town have pledged to procure only zero-emission buses from 2025 and ensure that a major area of their city is zero emission by 2030. Reduce the number of polluting vehicles on city streets.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2013

Up to $200,000 is available for this project, which seeks to identify cost-effective options to retrofit older Class-8 tractor trailers that currently move cargo to and from the Port of Seattle. Approximately 2,000 trucks currently service the Port of Seattle; many of them do not meet this standard. grams per brake horsepower-hour.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The nine green zones are located in population-dense neighborhoods most affected by air pollution. Each of the zones have a large presence of traffic that is contributing to a high rate of air pollution. Boston, Louisville, Montreal, Nashville, and Seattle are using Series-ER technology to cut down emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2014

million in Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grants to retrofit, replace, or repower diesel engines resulting in immediate emissions reductions in harmful pollution. Most of the country’s busiest ports are located in or near large metropolitan areas and, as a result, people in nearby communities can be exposed to high levels of pollution.

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EPA Diesel Clean Cleaning 240

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $32 million to fund four new Clean Air Research Centers at universities conducting advanced air pollution research. The research will focus on the impacts of air pollution mixtures on people’s health. University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

The company’s global fleet of series electric drive propulsion systems exceeds 6,000 today, and is operating in cities such as London, Paris, Boston, Seattle, and Hong Kong. Metropolitan cities such as these use hybrid electric and electric drive technologies to decrease harmful emissions and noise pollution.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 9, 2022

Via his YouTube channel Friday Adventure Club , a Seattle-based Amazon delivery driver posted his first impressions of the new Rivian EDV and praised its advantages over its ICE-powered counterparts. The Rivian EDV is quieter, helps prevent air pollution, and operates cheaply due to the electric drivetrain.

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Seattle Gas-Electric Ford Gas 114

Baua Electric

AUGUST 8, 2024

Camping in the great outdoors involves getting close to nature, and—aside from walking or biking—nothing helps keep the world’s resplendent parks, beaches, and mountains free from damage from pollutants more than traveling to see them while driving an electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2009

EPA is holding the first of two public hearings on Monday, 18 May regarding the agency’s proposed findings that greenhouse gases contribute to air pollution that may endanger public health or welfare. Speaking slots for the subsequent public hearing, to be held in Seattle, Washington on 21 May, are also oversubscribed. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

The tech incubator is aiming to deliver innovative mobility and transportation solutions that help alleviate growing global challenges such as traffic congestion, parking availability and pollution. The company has since expanded to Boston, Seattle, New York, San Antonio, Austin, Chicago and London.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2010

For these reasons, we have developed a unique approach to the problem, bridging sampling plan techniques with pollutant transport modeling, to create models of sunken oil. Moreover, the oil may re-suspend and sink, with changes in salinity, sediment load, and temperature, making fate and transport models difficult to deploy and adjust.

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Oil New Hampshire Miami Seattle 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2017

Consumers in California markets and Salt Lake City were offered both consumer purchase incentives and carpool lane access, and those in Denver and Seattle had substantial purchase incentives. Ten of the top 12 major metropolitan areas with the highest electric vehicle uptake offered consumer incentives typically worth $2,000 to $5,000.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2016

There has been little recent research into the emission durability of these new fleets, and in this paper, we examine some recent and historical emission data from the Seattle and Chicago area to obtain a picture of how current livery vehicle emissions compare to the rest of the fleet and examine their importance to fleet emissions.

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Emissions Fleet Light Taxi 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

—Tim Bates, a research chemist at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle and co-lead of the US component of the study. In addition to its impacts on snow and ice, black carbon is an air pollutant.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

Additionally, one of the urea SCR vehicles was operated over a total distance of ~4,000 km (~2,485 miles) between Los Angeles, CA and Seattle, WA to investigate emissions reduction characteristics over extended highway driving conditions. The researchers acquired two cars from a rental agency and one from a private owner.

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Diesel Emissions Light Los Angeles 230

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Considering the electric power sector and transportation sectors together, net emissions of pollutants leading to atmospheric ozone and fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) decrease in the electrification scenario. levels throughout the United States. Environmental Assessment of a Full Electric Transportation Portfolio.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2012

This causes downstream thermal pollution affecting, for example, life cycles of aquatic organisms. Both the US and Europe have strict environmental standards with regard to the volume of water withdrawn and the temperature of the water discharged from power plants.

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Climate Change Water Climate Europe 244

Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2009

There are two public hearings scheduled for this proposed finding: 18 May at the EPA Potomac Yard Conference Center, Arlington, VA; and 21 May at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center in Seattle, WA. The scientific analysis also confirms that climate change impacts human health in several ways.

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EPA Climate Change Ozone Motoring 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2013

—co-lead author Sarah Doherty of the University of Washington in Seattle. The research team quantified the complexities of black carbon and the impacts of co-emitted pollutants for different sources, taking into account uncertainties in measurements and calculations.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon CO2 286

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. The proposed sensor will aid in the development of advanced sensor technologies for commercial use that will contribute to higher energy efficiency, increased reliability, and decreased pollution. DOE Share: $300,000). DOE Share: $299,162). University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Coal Universal Iowa Utah 210

Plug In Partners

JUNE 6, 2006

Hays of North Little Rock, AK, Mayor Rocky Anderson of Salt Lake City, Mayor Henry Garret of Corpus Christi, TX, Mayor John Hickenlooper of Denver, Mayor Greg Nickels of Seattle, Mayor Ardell Brede of Rochester, NY, Mayor Martin J. Robert Cluck of Arlington, VA, Mayor Patrick H. Become a Partner today.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 19, 2009

The analysis also looked at the impact of climate change on human health and suggests that it may lead to higher levels of ground-level ozone, a harmful pollutant. It has been deemed by the EPA that the emissions from new motor vehicles and their engines contribute to these concentrations and threaten climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. Earlier this year, Electrify America submitted the plan for the first tranche of spending, directed at 11 cities nationwide—New York, Washington, D.C.,

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

Fleet Orders · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources – 1,800 · City of Chicago - 850 vehicles · Shohomish County, WA - 300 · City of Seattle - 410 · Kansas City, MO - 120 · Capital Metro (Transit agency in Austin) - 165 · ABC Lawn and Pest Control (Austin) - 150 Cities Cities continue to join the Plug-In Partners coalition. Keene, N.H.,

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Plug In Partners

JULY 7, 2006

H ere is a guest editorial from a plug in partner city that appeared in the Seattle Post Intelligencer. Plug-ins could make a big dent in global warming pollution. The Road to Independence Sunday, July 2, 2006 PATRICK MAZZA AND RICH FELDMAN Guest Columnist An economic earthquake is poised to shake the globe.

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Oil Washington Plug-in Gasoline-Electric 100

EV Obssesion

JUNE 15, 2021

By Carter Rubin, Advocate for transportation options that reduce carbon emissions and support equitable access for all. San Diego has quickly emerged as a leader when it comes to sensible updates to zoning rules that shape city neighborhoods.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will result in the development of approximately 184 liquid propane Autogas refueling stations in the following major metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Denver, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Dallas, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Seattle, Orlando, San Diego, St. Total DOE award: $5,924,190.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants? But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. For more on plug-in hybrids and V2G, see CalCars Resources , University of Delaware V2G Research Center , and papers from a June 2005 conference in Seattle.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2013

Ironically, however, the applicability for these vessels would be when they are visiting ports outside of California (such as Portland (OR), and Tacoma and Seattle (WA)) since the major California ports are currently installing grid-supplied shore power capability at all container terminals. Honolulu, Hawaii; and Seattle, Wash.

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