Sentences with phrase «tailpipe pollution»

Overseen by the regional air quality control agency, the program aims to get more people out of private vehicles in order to cut tailpipe pollution and reduce crowding on public transportation.

In the same filing, the lobbying group, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, also cast doubt on the negative effects of tailpipe pollution on human health.

Both engines use variable valve - timing technology to produce maximum zoom with minimum fuel consumption and tailpipe pollution.

As an all - electric car, the Nissan Leaf has virtually no dependence on petroleum whatsoever, producing no tailpipe pollution or emitting greenhouse gases into the air during operation.

But the situation is exacerbated in blue states, where power - sector emissions have plummeted and planet - warming tailpipe pollution remains stubbornly high.

The following are some facts about diesel car engines, the tailpipe pollution they emit and the «defeat device» software that federal regulators say VW used to circumvent emissions standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state of California.

Shifting to cleaner vehicles would also protect people, particularly children and the elderly, from toxic tailpipe pollution.

They produce no tailpipe pollution and, in most provinces, drivers plug in to relatively clean power grids.

Not exact matches

They do not emit tailpipe pollutants, giving a large reduction of local air pollution, and, can give a significant reduction in total greenhouse gas and other emissions (dependent on the method used for electricity generation).

An influx of pollution from Asia in the western United States and more frequent heat waves in the eastern U.S. are responsible for the persistence of smog in these regions over the past quarter century despite laws curtailing the emission of smog - forming chemicals from tailpipes and factories.

Cars are backed up on the George Washington Bridge, their tailpipes spewing, yet the air today seems to brush the pollution away.

Basically, the source of pollution is transferred: «It is far less expensive to capture emissions at the smokestack than the tailpipe,» Pratt adds.

Because those emissions come from hundreds of millions of tailpipes, this source of pollution seems difficult to control.

«It's kind of stunning in that, when you think of sitting in traffic behind the tailpipe of a semi-truck, you assume that exhaust is the big contributor to air pollution,» says Coggan.

Despite the image of ICEs as pollution belching devices, that was formerly true, you can actually NOW breathe the tailpipe of ZERO Pollution ICEs.

Anirudh Sharma is the founder of Graviky Labs and, working with a team of fellow inventors, produced a series of gadgets that attach to pollution emitters, like tailpipes, to capture raw carbon and soot.

In response, the regional government has made efforts to tackle pollution from coal plants and tailpipe exhaust.

The Clean Air Act empowers the federal government to set tailpipe emissions standards, but a waiver granted to California allows the state to impose stricter air pollution standards than those set by the feds.

The expected introduction of plug - in hybrid electric vehicles could cut U.S. gasoline use, but could increase deadly air pollution in some areas, two reports say.That's because a plug - in's lower tailpipe emissions may be offset by smokestack emissions from the utility generating plants supplying electricity to recharge the big batteries that allow plug - ins to run up -LSB-...]

Unfortunately for the fossil fuel industry, natural gas only reduces pollution by 55 % (compared to coal) at the power plant, and only by 17 % (compared to gasoline) out of car tailpipes.

Smog, also known as ground - level ozone, is formed by a reaction between sunlight and pollution from car tailpipes, power plants and factories, fumes from volatile solvents and gasoline vapors.

Similar cases can be made for walkability and safety (fewer automobile deaths and injuries), pollution (reduced tailpipe emissions), and time (fewer hours spent commuting).

And from the time it's mined until it leaves the tailpipe as vehicle exhaust, a gallon of gas from tar sands oil generates 17 percent more climate change pollution than conventional gas.

Scientists have considered a number of theories: small differences in solar radiation; volcanic eruptions that spewed sun - blocking ash and gases into the atmosphere; or pollution from factories, power plants, and tailpipes, particularly in Asia.

But whether that pollution comes from a tailpipe or a smokestack, it's the same pollution.

The expected introduction of plug - in hybrid electric vehicles could cut U.S. gasoline use, but could increase deadly air pollution in some areas, two reports say.That's because a plug - in's lower tailpipe emissions may be offset by smokestack emissions from the utility generating plants supplying electricity to recharge the big batteries that allow plug - ins to run up to 40 miles without kicking on their gasoline engines.

Since electric vehicles have no tailpipe emissions, they reduce local air pollution and create a cleaner environment for children and families that live close to streets and highways.

With no tailpipe emissions, they prevent air pollution and cut fossil fuel use.

Regulations included in the Mercatus Center's requests for review were: national public health standards for smog and soot, and standards for tailpipe exhaust pollution from gasoline vehicles, diesel vehicles, and heavy diesel trucks.

These fires are undermining progress made during recent decades in reducing pollution from tailpipes, power plants, and other industrial sources.

Rather than price the pollution coming out of every tailpipe in the state, California priced carbon at the refinery.

It would involve gradually eliminating pollution from factories and tailpipes; replacing them with artificial aerosols in the upper atmosphere where they're much less likely to damage human health; and then hope nothing (else) goes seriously awry.

An electric vehicle, on the other hand, produces no harmful emissions directly from its «tailpipe», but unless it's being charged with solar, wind, or other clean electricity, an EV is responsible for some air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions being produced at the point of electricity generation.

A gas car is responsible for generating air pollution from its tailpipe each day, even if it's used in a ridesharing capacity to transport many different people to their destinations each day, and those emissions are then divided by the riders.

But those assumptions are based on emissions from the tailpipe or smokestack and don't account for the methane and other pollution emitted when gas is extracted and piped to power plants and other customers.