News tagged with emissions standards

Portable chargers, boosters to ease green car woes

Chevrolet Europe's president Susan Doherty drives to work every day in an electric car, and thanks to a recharging station at work, she never worries about running out of power.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New EPA air quality rules outweigh costs and provide major health and environmental benefits

A report by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health provides an expanded review of six new air quality regulations proposed or recently adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA). ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Delhi's air as dirty as ever despite some reforms

(AP) -- A decade ago, plans for a metro and clean-fuel buses were hailed as New Delhi's answer to pollution. But air in the Indian capital is as dirty as ever - partly because breakneck development has brought ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 6

CAFE standards create profit incentive for larger vehicles

(PhysOrg.com) -- The current Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards create a financial incentive for auto companies to make bigger vehicles that are allowed to meet lower targets, according to a new University of Michigan ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researchers draft blueprint to boost energy innovation

The U.S. government could save the economy hundreds of billions of dollars per year by 2050 by spending a few billion dollars more a year to spur innovations in energy technology, according to a new report by researchers ...

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created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 9

Vehicles of 2017 could get 54.5 mpg

One of the most powerful points in Thomas Friedman's book, "Hot, Flat and Crowded," was that when President Ronald Reagan rolled back fuel efficiency standards for American vehicles, it wasted an amount of petroleum equivalent ...

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created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 9

Feds aim to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent

NASA opened an energy efficient office building at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The Navy is running boats on biofuel in Norfolk.

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created Aug 28, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 13

GM, LG partner on electric vehicles

General Motors and LG Group will jointly design and engineer electric vehicles, the companies said Thursday.

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created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study aims to improve fuel economy by 30 percent

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside along with their research partners have received a $1.2 million grant from the Department of Energy to study and evaluate technologies that provide feedback to drivers ...

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created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

China makes nuclear power breakthrough

China said Friday it had hooked its first so-called "fourth generation" nuclear reactor to the grid, a breakthrough that could eventually reduce its reliance on uranium imports

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created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 13

Report presents best policy options to reduce petroleum use

It will take more than tougher fuel economy standards for U.S. transportation to significantly cut its oil use over the next half century. It will likely require a combination of measures that foster consumer and supplier ...

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created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

L.A., Bakersfield remain among U.S.'s most polluted cities, report says

Smog and soot levels have dropped significantly in Southern California over the last decade, but the Los Angeles region still has the highest levels of ozone nationwide, violating federal health standards an average of 137 ...

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created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Cleaner vehicle standards good for health, agriculture, climate

A new analysis, published this week and conducted by a team of scientists led by Drew Shindell of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, shows stricter vehicle emission standards ...

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created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

EPA sets pollution controls for boilers, incinerators

The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said new pollution controls for boilers and incinerators will save thousands of lives every year but at half the cost of an earlier proposal that industry and lawmakers had ...

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created Feb 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research helps drivers cut fuel use

Ever wonder how much fuel you can save by avoiding stop-and-go traffic, closing your window, not using air conditioning or coasting toward stops?

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created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0