Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

pollution from vehicles. Among this fleet of trucks and buses, tractor trucks are, by far, the most significant polluters – although just about 1 in 10 medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, they’re responsible for around half of all emissions from the state’s fleet. There are more than 1.8

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The EPA is getting ready to finalize a critical regulation limiting emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxide (NO X ) and soot (or particulate matter, PM 2.5 ) from new heavy-duty trucks. Indefinite delay of more effective emissions technology could permanently impede the path towards cleaning up the diesel truck fleet.

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Frontiers

JUNE 5, 2023

Double climate benefits from a Great Food Transition ​ Netherlands International Champion Dr Paul Behrens from Leiden University presented a groundbreaking analysis that for the first time quantifies the significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions if high-income countries move away from eating meat and restore land spared from animal farming.

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Science & Climate

APRIL 22, 2021

Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in California. The report recommends flexible policy approaches that can be adjusted over time as technologies evolve and more knowledge is gained. Health: Transportation is a major cause of local air pollution, as well as climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2022

The rapid growth in heavy-duty electric vehicle technology is encouraging. It’s a vital missed opportunity that regulators are so out of step with the technology in this realm. Heavy-duty vehicles have an outsized impact on climate change and air pollution. Electric trucks deliver wide loads of benefits.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2024

This is a common sense step that relies on affordable, proven technology already in use in millions of gasoline vehicles outside the US. The overall combination of reductions in particulate matter, nitrogen oxides and other air pollutants are expected to deliver $13 billion in annual health benefits. Far from it.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIGs) to 18 cleaner fuel transportation projects statewide that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants. Transportation generates 47 percent of nitrogen oxide emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to the formation of ground-level ozone.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

noted ” Diesel generators produce carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxide (NOx), and particulate matter. These generators release this into the atmosphere and substantially reduce air quality in the nearby regions. This is very expensive. Additionally, as EnergyEducation.ca Every litre of fuel has 0.73 kg of pure carbon, 2.6

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

EPA considering a range of alternatives EPA proposed standards that would aim to reduce greenhouse gas tailpipe emissions by about 70 percent compared to today’s vehicles (or about a 60 percent reduction from the 2026 standards currently on the books), to a lab certification level of emissions of 82 grams per mile (g/mi) by 2032.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Electrification can eliminate tailpipe emissions entirely, which means directly reducing harmful pollution affecting the air we breathe. gasoline particulate filters for PM and hybridization to reduce CO 2 ) or reductions resulting from shifting marketshare towards vehicles with zero tailpipe emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The court sided with the community and ordered the city to use an analytically sound model developed by Eric Schwartz of the University of Michigan and Jacob Abernethy of the Georgia Institute of Technology to efficiently locate and replace the pipes. But nitrous oxide is even more insidiously efficient at disrupting the climate.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

greenhouse gas emissions, more than the electric power sector. The transportation sector is also a substantial source of nitrogen oxides and particulates, both of which are dangerous to human health. EPA has considered electrification technologies in many past rulemakings and has used fleet average standards for decades.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2022

and Canadian jurisdictions participating in the Multi-State Medium and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV) initiative released an action plan to help fight rising diesel exhaust pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by accelerating the transition to zero-emission trucks, vans, and buses. On July 27, Pennsylvania joined 18 U.S.

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