Sentences with phrase «of vehicle pollution»

The ICCT's actions have ultimately shifted global attitudes toward diesel, changed the direction of the automobile industry, which is now moving away from diesel and petrol engines and toward electric mobility, highlighted the need to closely monitor self - regulating companies, and raised global awareness of the dangers of vehicle pollution to health and the environment in a transformative way.

Despite the continuing evidence of the growing contribution of vehicle pollution to global warming, acid rain and ground level concentrations of ozone, there is scant sign of concerted thinking on what should be done.

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The industrial country has high levels of PM2.5 (particulate matter at 2.5 micrometers), pollution caused by decades of heavy manufacturing and unfettered vehicle exhaust — particularly from motorbikes.

Dieselgate (as it became known) exposed the extent of the pollution problems caused by diesel vehicles, which until recently accounted for half of new car registrations in the EU.

«So we have an inner city message in terms of... how do we lessen pollution and CO2 in... city environments, and how do we use electric vehicles and e-mobility to be able to do that?»

The profit that Tesla Motors booked for the third quarter was boosted by the company's record sales of its existing electric vehicles, along with the cost reductions and the sale of pollution tax credits to other car manufacturers.

Last year, the federal government announced it would develop a policy that aims to cut more carbon pollution than any other in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, by promoting the production and use of cleaner fuels in vehicles, buildings and industry.

This confluence of forces has led China to implement a wide range of policies supporting a transition to clean energy — from feed - in - tariffs for renewable power, to electric vehicle incentives, to market - based policies to reduce carbon pollution.

Even as China's economy displayed clear signs of a slowdown, consumers bought new vehicles, motivated by some cities» pending restrictions on car purchases to alleviate traffic congestion and air pollution.

Although favourable in many parts of North America, electric vehicles in China, where 77 % of the total electricity production is coal - derived and many plants do not have advanced air pollution controls, raise concerns regarding increased air...

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That's why we have committed more than # 2Bn since 2011 to increase the uptake of ultra low emission vehicles, support greener transport schemes and set out a national plan to tackle pollution in our towns and cities.»

Clean air zones must be introduced across dozens of English towns and cities to tackle vehicle pollution, a committee of MPs has urged.

I am also thrilled to see a Comptroller who has a commitment to our environment be it for electric vehicles, cutting down on pollution and safeguarding the monies used to preserve our state parks and other areas of wilderness in our great Borough and State.

More work is needed, he added, to understand how «hard driving» is having an affect on air quality and further evidence is required as to the impact the country's existing fleet of vehicles is having on pollution levels.

«The best way to tackle air pollution is to reduce the number of vehicle kilometres travelled,» she said.

Simply put, the cost of fitting pollution equipment or getting a new vehicle would have come as punch in the ribs to those who need our help at this time, would have destroyed profit margins, and endangered our businesses.»

During his 2013 State of the State address, Governor Andrew Cuomo laid out his ChargeNY plan to invest $ 50 million over five years in electric vehicle infrastructure to reduce air pollution, lower the cost of government and reduce dependence on imported oil.

In addition to the tolls, the supervisor and others have complained that vehicles stuck in traffic jams at the tolls are causing air pollution, with elevated levels of benzene that is harmful for Grand Island and Tonawanda residents.

A new report shows how autonomous and connected car technologies could begin to reduce the amount of pollution put out by vehicles

But the last 100 years are interesting for climate researchers as it is the period where we have had massive pollution of the atmosphere from industrialisation, vehicle use and people's energy consuming lifestyles.

The study, just published in the journal Atmospheric Environment, points out that low hedges reduce the impact of pollution from vehicles in cityscapes where there are large buildings close to roads, far more effectively than taller trees.

The electric vehicles» benefits of reduced greenhouse gas emissions are countered by the expense and pollution from producing the vehicles, leading to debate on whether they are the best replacement for conventional vehicles.

As it has for more than a century, air pollution in America largely arises from power plants, industries, vehicles and other sources of fuel burning.

China has set an ambitious target of putting 5 million electric or plug - in hybrid vehicles on the country's roads by 2020, part of Beijing's efforts to fight pollution and reduce reliance on oil imports.

Still missing from consideration are the cost differences between electric vehicles and those with internal combustion engines, as well as other possible environmental effects of biofuel technology such as increased air pollution and water use.

In Western cities, household products like deodorants and paints are a bigger source of air pollution than vehicle exhausts — so here's what we need to do

Throughout Asia, vehicles with two - stroke engines produce vast amounts of pollution.

«The main goal of our project was to find out how effective regulations of gasoline vehicle emissions have been at reducing the formation of smog,» says Greg Drozd, Ph.D. «It was also a very forward - thinking study in anticipation of how cars that meet future emissions standards will lead to reductions in air pollution.»

But farmland in the Golden State emits about the same amount of certain pollution - forming gases as on - road vehicles, a new study shows.

The first will only be solved when companies begin to mass produce such vehicles, according to GM's Burns, which could happen as soon as 2012 when a law is set to take effect in California requiring that a portion of new cars emit no pollution.

China's capital, Beijing, infamous for its thick smog and heavy traffic, will slash the city's new car sales quotas by almost 40 percent next year, as it looks to curb vehicle emissions and hazardous levels of pollution, the city government website said.

New Delhi is among several Asian cities, including Beijing, that are suffering from toxic levels of pollution fuelled by industrial growth and a surge in the numbers of vehicles crowding their roads.

Large swathes of China are affected by chronic air pollution from factories, vehicles and coal - burning power plants.

Ozone doesn't just live high in Earth's atmosphere; near the ground, it contributes to smog, and ground - level ozone has gradually increased in most places because of industrial pollution from vehicles and fossil - fuel burning.

The study, led by researchers at Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), highlights the importance of maintaining domestic emission controls on motor vehicles, power plants and other industries at a time when pollution is increasingly global.

«Tighter vehicle emission standards coupled with measures to improve real - world compliance could prevent hundreds of thousands of early deaths from air pollution - related diseases each year,» said Anenberg.

They found that the daily level of PM2.5 pollution in Delhi dropped by 10 — 13 % during the vehicle restrictions.

With pollution from particulate matter at potentially lethal levels early last December, city officials took a drastic step: they announced that they would temporarily restrict the use of private vehicles by allowing owners to drive only on alternate days, based on the sequence of their number plates.

Lower rates of asthma and other health problems are frequently cited as benefits of policies aimed at cutting carbon emissions from sources like power plants and vehicles, because these policies also lead to reductions in other harmful types of air pollution.

China has already taken a series of measures to fight pollution, including restricting car sales in major cities and providing incentives for selling electric vehicles.

As it stands, a conventional Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle, which burns gasoline when its batteries are not engaged, and the all - electric Nissan Leaf produce roughly the same amount of greenhouse gas pollution: 200 grams per mile, according to data from the U.S. Department of Energy.

The models suggested that levels of air pollution would fall without the government having to do much as older diesel vehicles are replaced by newer ones that emit less nitrogen dioxide.

World Bank analysis quantifying for the first time the combined impact of road crashes and air pollution from vehicles.

«I realized this was air pollution, or sooty particulate matter, made of black particles released from exhaust of vehicles,» Sharma says.

The study estimates that hundreds of thousands of deaths from air pollution could be avoided if the US moved towards renewable energy and greater use of electric vehicles and trains.

In terms of carbon pollution reductions, this is comparable to taking 80 million vehicles off the road.

He learns that in heaters, smoke from factories and gas from vehicles, evaporates solvents and hydrocarbons are the sources of the air pollution.

Every diesel and petrol vehicle driven into the centre of Oxford is contributing to the problem; everyone can do their bit to tackle Oxford's toxic air pollution.»