Inside Climate News

MAY 11, 2021

By Georgina Gustin Food production, primarily the raising of livestock, causes poor air quality that is responsible for about 16,000 deaths a year in the United States, roughly the same number from other sources of air pollution, including transportation and electricity generation, according to research published Monday.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

billion tons of greenhouse gases each year, resulting in the transportation sector being the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors. We can transform the way we get around, building a future that brings clean air and clear lungs with it. Vehicles emit 1.5 Electrifying vehicles is still important.

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MARCH 20, 2023

Transportation is the largest source of global warming emissions in the US and the passenger vehicles many of us drive are responsible for the majority of transportation global warming emissions. And walking and biking means avoiding air pollution and climate-changing emissions altogether.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

million in 2022 Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant funding to help municipalities, schools, and businesses around the state switch to clean transportation and improve air quality in their communities. A growing number of organizations and businesses in Pennsylvania want to lower their transportation emissions.

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APRIL 2, 2024

Air pollution from ports comes from many sources: ships, trains, tugboats, cargo equipment, and – quite importantly – the trucks that move cargo containers to and from ports. Because drayage trucks tend to be among the oldest tractor trucks on the road, they tend to pollute at greater rates than other tractors.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2023

It will limit the environmental harms caused by producing and transporting millions of tons of fossil fuels. The disadvantaged bear the heaviest burden from air pollution today. They often live near roads and transportation hubs, not to mention refineries and power plants. It will also reduce health inequities.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

These targets must be matched with the power sector at the forefront by decarbonizing electricity supplies and electrifying other sectors of the economy, such as transportation and home heating. Now is the time to enact legislative proposals such as the 100% Clean Act , which is aligned with Healey’s own campaign commitment.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s immediately clear how fully-electric battery electric vehicles (BEVs) can help reduce emissions; eliminating gasoline and tailpipes in favor of increasingly clean electricity helps limit both climate change and air pollution. Plug-in hybrids are a bit more complicated.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

The answers to these questions are quite nuanced and vary greatly depending on where we live, the mode of transportation that our items travel, and what we purchase. Even when accounting for pollution from electricity generation, electric trucks can significantly reduce air pollution and get us on a better track to addressing climate change.

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Science & Climate

APRIL 22, 2021

Decarbonizing California Transportation by 2045. Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in California. Those policy options, when combined, could lead to a zero-carbon transportation system by 2045, while also improving equity, health and the economy. featured image by Getty.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Much of this air pollution comes from diesel trucks rumbling along the state’s many highway corridors, in particular I-95 which connects many major cities along the East Coast. This all makes Maryland one of the deadliest states for diesel particulate pollution. This feasible and commonsense regulation would result in 46.45

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

million in Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants to municipalities and businesses for 99 electric vehicles and more clean fuel transportation projects to improve air quality in their communities. Transportation is one of the biggest sources of air pollution in Pennsylvania.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 10, 2022

Rather than offering modern transportation solutions, this government is proposing to build out-of-date mega highways which will destroy forests, farmland, and wetlands, while increasing the province’s carbon emissions. When: March 10, 2022 Onwards. Where: Toronto, Ontario and available remotely.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2022

A quarter of carbon emissions from transportation come from heavy-duty trucks. They are also disproportionate sources of air pollution. Shifting transport from trucks to trains substantially cut emissions. Experience in Europe shows that subsidies for lower-carbon transport can also be helpful.

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APRIL 2, 2024

This already shows up with severe underrepresentation of women in civil engineering (16%) and the transportation industry as a whole (14.5%). And this is just the tip of the iceberg of the many ways sexism pervades transportation. Across all parts of the transportation system, this has particular consequences for women.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

First, there’s air pollution. Gas plants and infrastructure emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) during combustion, which degrade local air quality. Exposure to NOx and other gas infrastructure air pollutants has been associated with respiratory illnesses and an increase in childhood asthma rates.

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JULY 24, 2023

A USPS fleet that maximizes electrification potential would not only help to reduce climate warming and air pollution but would help to make electric vehicles more commonplace in every community across the nation. In its original study, the Postal Service simply stated, “there would be no or negligible impacts on environmental justice.”

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AUGUST 2, 2022

A key step towards addressing climate change and air quality. Cleaning up heavy-duty vehicles is one of the most consequential tasks in reducing climate-warming greenhouse gases and toxic air pollution from the transportation sector.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

Unless you are a clean transportation wonk or are in a deeply sad place with your social life, you probably don’t know what the heck that alphabet soup means, so let me translate. The California legislature cannot risk losing millions of dollars in clean transportation funding. They must act to extend these fees as soon as possible.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Switching from gasoline to electricity can greatly reduce heat-trapping emissions Transportation is the largest source of heat-trapping emissions in the US and the passenger vehicles many of us drive are responsible for the majority of transportation global warming emissions.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Reducing pollution from the transportation sector is one of the most important steps to sustaining a livable climate. The transportation sector is the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in both the United States and New York. Nine other states, including New York, are considering joining the program.

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JULY 25, 2022

Transportation is the largest source of global warming emissions in the US and the passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs produce the majority of transportation emissions. Electric vehicles (EVs) can eliminate tailpipe emissions altogether and so are an attractive option for reducing both global-warming and smog-forming air pollution.

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JULY 1, 2022

These entities may include airports and port authorities, municipal authorities, political subdivisions, State agencies, nonprofit entities, corporations, limited liability companies or partnerships incorporated or registered in this Commonwealth, air quality or transportation organizations and metropolitan or rural planning organizations.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. Some 23,000 megawatts of coal capacity is projected to be retired due to the new transport rule, largely at units that are not economic candidates for SCR retrofits. The post Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule appeared first on ACOEL. million tons, a reduction of 5.1

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MAY 3, 2023

It’s vital that this transition happens rapidly, both to reduce the amount of harmful air pollution and to limit damaging climate change. While many of the major automakers have stated plans to shift to ZEVs both in the US and abroad, some companies are failing to make ZEV options available in significant volume.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Air pollutants from coal plants are linked to chronic heart and respiratory disease, and a host of acute ailments. Thermal coal, which refers to coal used to produce electricity, produces dangerous amounts of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

These standards are critical to reduce air pollution and to help curb climate change , and they are in part based on the demonstrated increasing availability of EVs. So why are we hearing so much about it right now? The answer might lie in the emissions standards proposed by the EPA for cars and trucks earlier this year.

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JULY 27, 2021

Low or zero emission zones, which prioritize the use of cleaner vehicles, are a promising tool in benefitting communities disproportionately burdened by air pollution.

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MAY 2, 2023

Beverly Wright, Vernice Miller-Travis , and Peggy Shepard, among others, shows that Black and brown communities are disproportionately exposed to and harmed by pollution. A myriad of studies since have validated these findings across a number of exposures, such as soot air pollution (PM2.5

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MAY 30, 2023

On an Air Quality Action Day, young children, the elderly, and those with respiratory problems, such as asthma, emphysema, and bronchitis, are especially vulnerable to the effects of air pollution and should limit outdoor activities.

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule has the potential to significantly reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as harmful air pollutants like fine particulates (PM2.5) and 33 percent of NOx emissions from all on-road transportation in the state. Regulate more tractor trucks, including the smaller fleets.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

This support for EV charging, and by extension EV ownership among individuals and businesses, is key for accelerating the electrification of the transportation sector that we need to make progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution from transportation.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

Bringing these trucks into the rule is perhaps one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to reduce air pollution from transportation in the state and would deliver additional and faster relief to communities suffering the most from air pollution compared to the current proposal.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Research shows there are enough explored or prospective reserves to electrify the global transportation sector using current technology if a high amount of battery recycling occurs. In this scenario, global demand in 2100 will amount to about 55% of cobalt reserves and 50% of lithium reserves. Is recycling profitable?

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research have been studying the health impacts of wildfire smoke and air pollution in populations in California, especially the Central Valley, for over a decade. Whose health is at greatest risk from wildfire smoke? My colleagues and I at the Sean N.

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MAY 4, 2023

ACF is anticipated to accelerate the annual adoption of zero-emission trucks in California by around 80% , which will reduce exposure-related health complications from air pollution. Both the state and federal governments have committed billions of dollars to spur this work. Last November, the California Energy Commission approved $1.7

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” in the ocean are transported from seawater to air when waves hit the beach and that phenomenon represents a significant source of air pollution, a new study from Stockholm University has found. Read the full story in The Guardian.

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