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MAY 28, 2021

finds that private jets are 10 times more carbon-intensive than airliners on average, and 50 times more polluting than trains in terms of CO 2 emitted per passenger-km. And yet, super-rich super polluters are flying around like there’s no climate crisis. The report, Private jets: can the super-rich supercharge zero emission aviation?

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AUGUST 8, 2020

Switzerland-based Blackstone Resources AG announced that it has achieved a series of important milestones for producing any kind of printed battery cells. The production of the electrodes is completely free of pollutants and reduces production costs over the long term. The necessary porosity is simply adjusted for during printing.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

EPA’s TAG program aims to reduce air pollution in areas of the nation with the highest levels of ambient ozone and fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) pollution. Under the TAG program, eligible state and local air pollution control agencies must directly apply to EPA, but can select partners for a project consortium.

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MAY 23, 2014

Deaths from outdoor air pollution by region in 2005 and 2010. Outdoor air pollution kills some 3.5 This pollution is costing advanced economies plus China and India an estimated US$3.5 The effects of air pollution on people’s health are much higher than previously thought. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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JULY 19, 2009

Twenty research teams from across Europe are launching one of its largest pollution monitoring campaigns and are setting up sites in Île-de-France (a region containing the Paris metropolitan area) to investigate sources of particulate pollution in the urban environment. Paul Scherer Institut, Villingen, Switzerland.

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MARCH 14, 2020

These findings will help to improve the understanding of global processes involved in cloud formation and air pollution and to refine the corresponding models. This common compound is found not only in ants and stinging nettles, but also in the atmosphere, where it is an important indicator of air pollution.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

The UNECE Working Party on Pollution and Energy has approved a proposal to align the requirements on emissions from heavy-duty vehicle engines to the Euro VI legislation (EC Regulations 595/2009 and 582/2011), which enter into force in the European Union (EU) in January 2013. 29) in June 2012 for its final adoption. Source: UNECE.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

Hyundai Motor Company delivered the first seven units of its XCIENT Fuel Cell, the first mass-produced fuel cell electric heavy-duty truck, to customers in Switzerland, with a total of 50 planned to hit the roads there this year. These models will help the effort to replace pollutant-emitting diesel-powered trucks.

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MAY 22, 2020

As cities look to reduce air pollution, some are equipping their police forces with electric cars. Police forces in Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom currently use Kona Electric patrol cars, Hyundai said earlier this month in a press release. The Hyundai Kona Electric is proving to be a popular choice, in Europe at least.

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APRIL 15, 2022

Potential customers in Switzerland who wish to try out a German-made Tesla Model Y now have the opportunity to take one of the European-made all-electric crossovers for a spin. As per a recent post on LinkedIn, Tesla is offering test drives for its Germany-made Model Y in Cham, Zug, Switzerland. .

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Although the presence of microplastics in the environment is raising concerns, the amount of microplastics in air and water is small compared to another polymer that pollutes air and water: micro rubber. 22 kilotonnes of micro rubber have accumulated in the environment in Switzerland. 2019.113573.

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MAY 17, 2019

Image: University of Bern /SR Technics Switzerland AG. This is equivalent to the daily airway intake of mildly polluted rural air with 20 µg (millionths of a gram) of particles per cubic meter of air up to heavily polluted air in a large city (100-500 µg of particles per cubic meter of air).

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MAY 17, 2020

A recent PSI study led by environmental scientist Christian Bauer found that a battery electric car is already the most environmentally friendly option in Switzerland and many other countries, even when the manufacture of the battery is figured in. Note the large impact of energy storage in the latter.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

As part of their settlements with ARB, Switzerland-based Mediterranean Shipping and Poland-based Chipolbrok each agreed to pay $53,000 to the California Air Pollution Control Fund (CAPCF) to support air quality research. They must also follow all fuel switchover requirements, and maintain accurate records.

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MAY 24, 2017

Based on a three-year study of toxic and environmentally relevant pollutants from gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines, Swiss researchers have concluded that some GDI engines emit just as many soot particles as unfiltered diesel cars did in the past. Further, the GDI particles carry numerous carcinogenic substances.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser and Peter Gehr from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and Michael Riediker from the Institute for Work and Health, Lausanne, Switzerland, worked with a team of researchers to study the effects of brake particles on cultured lung cells placed in a chamber close to the axle of a car.

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JANUARY 19, 2013

The Minamata Convention on Mercury—named after a city in Japan where serious health damage occurred as a result of mercury pollution in the mid-20 th Century—provides controls and reductions across a range of products, processes and industries where mercury is used, released or emitted.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Verenium Corporation, a cellulosic ethanol developer and high-performance specialty enzyme company, announced the successful closure of previously defined programs under its joint research collaboration with Syngenta Participations AG of Switzerland. Earlier post.). Thermostable phytases also for use in the animal feed industry.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Recent research cited by the EPI suggests that around five million people die prematurely every year due to air pollution, accounting for approximately one in every ten deaths annually. Switzerland leads the world in sustainability, followed by France, Denmark, Malta, and Sweden. average exposure, and PM 2.5 Source: EPI.

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MAY 25, 2017

SkyNRG and AEG Fuels completed the delivery of sustainable aviation biofuels for the Bombardier Business Aircraft demonstration fleet flying from KLM Jet Center in Amsterdam, Netherlands to the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland. This is the first delivery of biofuel completed by AEG Fuels.

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

The Mercedes-Benz eActros heavy-duty electric truck, with a range of up to 200 km, is in intensive use by customers in Germany and Switzerland as part of the eActros “innovation fleet”. eCitaro vehicles were also delivered to Luxembourg and Switzerland. The first hand-off to a customer was in 2018.

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APRIL 28, 2010

The report’s findings for the period 1997–2007 present a mixed picture, with some improvements in air pollutants and serious concerns regarding persistent growth in transport’s greenhouse gas emissions. Over the last ten years we have concentrated on measures to improve mobility whilst decoupling transport emissions from economic growth.

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MARCH 31, 2015

The US target will roughly double the pace of carbon pollution reduction in the United States from 1.2% With these actions, as well as INDCs submitted by Norway and Switzerland, countries representing more than 50% of global CO 2 emissions have either announced or formally reported their targets.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

United Kingdom); and the car club TCS (Switzerland). This procedure was developed in the 1980s and was not originally intended to be used for fuel consumption testing but air pollutants.

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JUNE 14, 2010

Weilenmann, Robert Alvarez and Mario Keller (2010) Fuel Consumption and CO 2 /Pollutant Emissions of Mobile Air Conditioning at Fleet Level - New Data and Model Comparison. Legislation could also support this process, the authors suggest. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es903654t.

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JUNE 18, 2011

Shifting from nuclear to other types of power plants could affect the reliability of the electricity supply, electricity costs, air pollution, carbon emissions, and the reliance on fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas, the researchers said.

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MAY 23, 2022

To analyze this, Wang headed to Switzerland as a member of the CLOUD collaboration to test his experiment at the European Council for Research Nuclear (CERN). There are no factories or farms, and planes are thought to make up most of the pollutants in this area. Source: College of Engineering. The emission sources are limited up there.

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MAY 26, 2022

The University’s Engine Research Center is dedicated to investigating the fundamental thermo-physical process that control combustion performance and pollutant emissions formed during combustion in internal combustion engines. ID-Technologies, Fribourg, Switzerland.

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APRIL 5, 2009

Air pollution. Emissions of regulated air pollutants from vehicles continue to fall across EEA member countries but concentrations remain high in some urban areas. The number of kilometers travelled by passengers in EEA member countries grew by 1% (equivalent to 65 million kilometers) in 2006. Transport at a crossroads.

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MAY 21, 2020

Stuart Grange works in Empa’s Air Pollution/Environmental Technology Laboratory and also at the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories at the University of York. In Switzerland, retrofitting the EA 189 engine was mandatory. The NOx values for the 1.6-liter liter diesel the emissions were even 53% worse.

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JULY 14, 2017

A new study by an international team led by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland has found that modern diesel passenger cars equipped with diesel particulate filters (DPFs) emit fewer carbonaceous particulates than gasoline-powered vehicles. The open-access study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

com (Spain); and the car club TCS (Switzerland). Further actions are therefore required, in particular on-road testing of fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions under real driving conditions and a not-to-exceed limit for the real-world gap, as it already exists for air pollutant emissions today. —Peter Mock.

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JUNE 15, 2010

Researchers at Empa in Switzerland looked into the impact of mobile air conditioning on fuel consumption and pollutant emissions of diesel cars and confirmed that they remain running at ambient temperatures below the desired temperature [.].

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APRIL 29, 2009

The researchers, involving scientists from Germany, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, concluded that the limit is 1,000 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide between the years 2000 and 2050. Strong mitigation actions according to the blue route would limit the risk of exceeding 2°C to 25%. Meinshausen et al. 2009) Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

In addition to domestic waste, agricultural pollution and industrial waste are also to blame for the rise of micropollutants in our waterways. Although the risk they pose to human and environmental health is not fully understood, the increasing number of pollution found in the world’s bodies of water is of concern. Their goal?

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JANUARY 24, 2025

Genesis unveiled the new GV60 Mountain Intervention Vehicle (MIV) this week in Switzerland, an off-road EV that can climb mountains. Meet the Genesis GV60 MIV rescue EV concept Genesis showed off the new GV60 MIV this week at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. Its also nearly silent, with minimal noise pollution.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Michael Riediker from the Institute for Work and Health in Lausanne, Switzerland, along with Barbara Rothen-Ruthishauser and Peter Gehr from the University of Bern, Switzerland, worked with researchers to study the effects of brake particles on cultured lung cells placed in a chamber close to the axle of the car. .

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