Sentences with phrase «on transportation emissions»

At an event last week titled, A Public Roundtable on Transportation Emissions in Philadelphia, panelists Erik Johanson, SEPTA Director of Innovation; Christine Knapp, Mayor's Office of Sustainability Director; Tony Bandiero, Eastern Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Transportation Executive Director, and Jessica Caum, Department of Public Health, Division of Disease Control Assistant Program Manager, grappled with this question and highlighted some of the new initiatives Philadelphia is taking to think smart about transit.

Both of these policies have a direct, measurable effect on automobile usage and thus on transportation emissions.

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As the biggest station operator and supplier of natural gas for transportation in the U.S., the company should benefit from higher oil prices and more focus on reducing emissions likely to drive many truck operators to consider this new engine.

Dave Sawyer, one of the authors of the National Round Table on Environment and Economy report, and blogger at EnviroEconomics.ca, makes some pertinent insider comments on the efficacy of a carbon tax in reducing emissions from personal transportation, a major source of emissions: While the carbon tax will â $ œdriveâ $ some reductions in vehicle kilometers traveled, -LSB-...]

Those nine areas are focused on agriculture (carbon farming), increasing energy efficiency, reducing food waste, eliminating commodity - driven deforestation, reducing the climate impact of packaging, advocating for responsible policies, committing to 100 percent renewable power, reducing short - lived climate pollutant emissions and transportation - related emissions.

And with President Trump poised to try to roll back emission standards for cars and trucks, the stakes for state action on transportation have never been higher.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Transportation (DoT) released rules that set limits on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions allowed and accelerate an increase in overall fuel efficiency to 14.5 kilometers per liter (34.1 miles per gallon) by 2016.

«The endangerment finding is key because it obligates the EPA to take regulatory action to cut carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft — it triggers a legal mandate,» said Drew Kodjak, executive director of the International Council on Clean Transportation.

The auto industry and researchers say this utopian view of transportation is on the horizon, and it could cut nearly all of the carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

Schuiling says that before the Red Sea is tapped for power, experts would have to weigh the pros (reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on oil) and cons (the disruption to local marine life and increase in salinity of the remaining seawater as well as the impact on tourism and transportation).

Lackner and colleagues argued in a paper published last July in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that air capture may prove the only way to deal with greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, all those tailpipes and engine exhausts on the world's millions of cars, airplanes and other vehicles.

The plan comes on the heels of President Obama's call in his State of the Union address to reduce emissions in a «21st - century transportation system.»

«The idea of automated car - sharing vehicle or a ride - sharing service, when you increase the occupancy of a vehicle, the emissions and fuel use overall are going to be split over those individuals, hence they are going to be lower,» said Susan Shaheen, the co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, whose research focuses on car - sharing.

But whether that will lead to a less - congested transportation system — saving fuel and cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions — remains to be seen, according to be transportation experts.

Rio de Janeiro, for example, used a draft of the GPC to determine that transportation was responsible for a whopping 39 % of the city's total emissions; that led the government to focus on expanding public transit to more efficiently shrink its carbon footprint.

Aviation accounted for 11 percent of energy - related carbon dioxide emissions from the transportation sector in 2010 in the United States, according to the International Council on Clean Ttransportation sector in 2010 in the United States, according to the International Council on Clean TransportationTransportation.

(1) to demonstrate the viability of a vehicle - based transportation system that is not overly dependent on petroleum as a fuel and contributes to lower carbon emissions than a system based on conventional vehicles;

The Department of Energy's pages on bioenergy and wind energy as well as transportation have both reduced their mentions of greenhouse gas emissions and reducing fossil fuel use in favor of language more geared toward jobs and energy independence.

Dr. Craft's expertise is on air toxics issues, focusing specifically on reducing criteria and greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transportation sectors.

While other transportation modes, such as the maritime industry, are also discussing ways to limit emissions, the world's attention is centered on aviation - a sector that would be the world's seventh - largest carbon emitter if it were a country.

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) was studying European diesel cars and discovered the on - road emissions of some models were notably higher than those measured in lab testing.

Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions A resource from the Federal Transit Administration that includes research on transit and climate change, tools for measuring and reducing carbon footprints, and information on transportation - related climate change adaptation.

City of Porterville to Purchase 10 GreenPower All - Electric Transit Buses Dec 7, 2016 Next - Gen Transportation News (Oxford, CT) The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has awarded $ 9.5 million to the City of Porterville to deploy 10 GreenPower EV350 40 - foot, zero - emission, all - electric transit buses on all nine Porterville Transit routes and to install the associated charging infrastructure, including 11 charging stations.

On June 3, 2016, during the 8th U.S. - China Transportation Forum in Los Angeles, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and China's Ministry of Transport (MOT) jointly announced the R2ZE Challenge and called to action cities / transit agencies to take measurable steps to reduce transit fleet bus greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions through increased deployment and operation of ZEBs.

This structural accounting model for transportation energy use generates mid-term forecasts of the transportation sector's energy use in order to evaluate the effect of changes in fuel economy on carbon emissions.

Depending on the energy source that causes the chemical reaction, hydrogen can be an emission - free transportation fuel.

The Center promotes comprehensive multimodal approaches to reduce GHG emissions and prepare for the effects of climate change on the transportation system, while advancing DOT's core goals of safety, mobility, environmental stewardship, and security.

These responsibilities include, but are not limited to, policy advice and activities on air quality, water quality, resilience, floodplain management, ecosystem management, noise, emissions, and bicycle and pedestrian transportation.

Seven case studies focus on the broad transportation planning process, strategies and other actions selected, and GHG emission reductions accomplished or projected.

Responding to legislation, executive action, and international agreements on climate change, DOT aims to secure economic and social benefits of transportation while reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Then I can put the music back on and return to the Teton's, The Steen's, the Canadian Rockies or Bryce Canyon or you name any beautiful, wild location (even a great love affair) and with no carbon emissions, no transportation costs, no waiting in line or gas bill, I'm back there instantaneously.

Although much of the focus for e-mobility news is on consumer electric vehicles, which would help reduce emissions in the light - duty vehicles category, commercial transport is another huge industry altogether, and one that is responsible for some 23 % of the US transportation sector's greenhouse gas emissions.

As Manjoo notes, it's pretty amazing to think that GM — a company so recently on the verge of bankruptcy — has embraced the future of affordable electric vehicles, demonstrating that emissions - free, affordable, long - range transportation really is feasible.

NÜWIEL, a Hamburg - based startup that is working on «clean transportation solutions for last mile delivery,» is teasing out information about its electric bike trailer, which could be a method of leveraging pedal power and zero (tailpipe) carbon emissions for deliveries and running errands without committing to an electric bicycle for all bike trips.

And of course it was independent scientific research commissioned by the nonprofit International Council on Clean Transportation that exposed Volkswagen's emissions cheating, with enormous consequences for the company.

3) If countries like China and India follow the American pattern in transportation, ballooning demand for oil is bound to be a disruptive influence on world affairs with or without the climate impact of all those additional emissions of greenhouse gases.

Usually when we talk about transportation emissions causing climate change here at TreeHugger, we focus on CO2 emissions or methane emissions — the usual suspects in the global warming discussion.

The White House is sitting on EPA's proposed public welfare «endangerment» finding on greenhouse emissions, the Interior Secretary sits on a science - based listing of the polar bear as threatened with extinction, the White House censors testimony by the CDC director on health effects, the Transportation Dept. tries to bury a major study on climate change impacts on Gulf Coast transportation infrastructure,Transportation Dept. tries to bury a major study on climate change impacts on Gulf Coast transportation infrastructure,transportation infrastructure, and so forth.

Although the most visible example of the future of electric mobility is the consumer electric car, the commercial transportation sector and heavy industry are two major areas where transitioning to cleaner fuels will have a big impact on air quality, GHG emissions, and other undesirable consequences of fossil fuels.

In the long run I don't think we will succeed in getting transportation of oil by trying to stop oil production on a site - by - site basis, we are going to have to put a high price on transportation fuels that have high carbon emissions and get much more serious about driving energy innovation they can get the transportation system off carbon.

«In the transportation sector, electrification and expansion of both passenger and freight rail and conversion of on - road vehicles to electric drive, hybrids, and turbo diesels, coupled with the recently enacted CAFÉ standards, will allow total residual carbon emissions to drop well below 10 percent of today's levels.

O'Rourke always hated the bike (in print, at least), and now that it's becoming more of a needed transportation mainstay on crowded American city streets, reducing pollution and carbon dioxide emissions and improving health, O'Rourke is airing his feelings once again.

They also challenged the claim that «Reduced CO2 gas emissions; No transportation needed, fur animals are born, raised and die on the farm» was misleading because it did not take into account other transportation factors such as delivering food to the farm and the transportation of pelts.

Reducing our emissions to 90 % below current levels is impossible without addressing, somehow, the transportation sector's effect on our emissions.

Thomas — You're absolutely correct about the impact our transportation system has on greenhouse gas emissions.

So, if you add up every car, airplane, ship, train, and every mode of transportation on the planet and the emissions from those vehicles, it's equal to the amount of carbon released when trees are cut down.

Gatti's work is focused on efforts to reduce emissions in the transportation sector in the Northeast region, through electrification, efficiency, and clean fuels.

Depending on the type and size of the respective event, transportation - related emissions will usually account the largest share of an event's carbon footprint.

Even ignoring the impacts on forests, harvest and transportation and looking only at the emissions coming from smokestacks, wood releases around 50 % more CO2 per megawatt of electricity generation than coal!

They say their findings, which focused on the effect titling had on forest clearing and disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon between 2002 and 2005, suggest that the increasing trend towards decentralized forest governance via granting indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to their lands could play a key role in global efforts to slow both tropical forest destruction, which the researchers note is responsible for about the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the transportation sector, and climate change.»