BigThink interviewed Calcars.org’s Felix Kramer

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USA: Texas we need clean energy in cars

Texas is the energy capital of the nation. Yet, Texans not only produce energy; Texans are enormous consumers of energy, the largest in the US. It is not surprising that the state suffers from a pollution problem, with some of the worst air and water quality in US. To combat the pollution, Texas is taking steps towards “green” through the use clean energy and the creation of more green jobs. Read More...

USA: My Word: No tears should be shed for Chevron

IT’S DISTURBING that Business Editor Drew Voros is so biased in favor of the petroleum industry. Read More...

USA: President Obama Sets Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Target for Federal Operation

WASHINGTON, DC – President Barack Obama today announced that the Federal Government will reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution by 28 percent by 2020. Reducing and reporting GHG pollution, as called for in Executive Order 13514 on Federal Sustainability, will ensure that the Federal Government leads by example in building the clean energy economy. Actions taken under this Executive Order will spur clean energy investments that create new private-sector jobs, drive long-term savings, build local market capacity, and foster innovation and entrepreneurship in clean energy industries. Read More...

Smart grid could reduce emissions by 12 percent

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PNNL’s Report, The Smart Grid: An Estimation of the Energy and CO2 Benefits suggests a smart grid could reduce carbon emissions 12 percent by 2030. Pictured at PNNL’s Electricity Infrastructure Operations Center are four of the report’s authors (from left to right): PNNL Scientists Rob Pratt and Tom Secrest; and PNNL Engineers Michael Kintner-Meyer (seated) and Kevin Schneider. Read More...

USA: EPA Alert: Westar Energy settles $500 million Clean Air Act violations

Legal news for Kansas attorneys. The EPA and Westar Energy settle violations, which amounted to $500 million. Read More...

Plug-in cars, cleaner air linked

Plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles can help clear Arizona’s air. And the benefits will increase with more on the road, and with utilities developing renewable energy sources, leaders of an environmental group say. Read More...

USA: Collision causes crude oil spill in Texas port

PORT ARTHUR, Texas – As much as 450,000 gallons of crude oil spilled in a southeast Texas port on Saturday after two vessels collided, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Read More...

Group: Plug-in, hybrid cars key to clean air

SCOTTSDALE – Electric and hybrid vehicles, along with renewable energy sources developed by utilities, can help clear Arizona’s air, leaders of an environmental group said Thursday. Read More...

Study| Electric Cars Show “Great Promise” in Fight Against Global Warming

A new study by Environment America finds that electric vehicles (EVs) could do a lot to fight global warming and clean up the urban smog that contributes to respiratory and heart problems. But, the report concludes, changes in public policy are needed to make the switch from internal combustion to all electric vehicles on a mass scale. Read More...

Plug-in Electric Cars Can Lower Global Warming Emissions, Oil Consumption and Unhealthy Air Pollution

DALLAS – (Business Wire) Increasing America’s use of plug-in electric and plug in hybrid cars would dramatically reduce emissions that cause global warming and air pollution and would curb our dependence on oil, according to a new white paper released today by Environment Texas. Read More...

Automotive Exhaust Chemicals: disease causing effects

A short list of the likely pathogens in car exhaust:
Carbon Monoxide
Nitrogen dioxide
Sulphur dioxide
Suspended particles, PM-10 particles less than 10 microns in size.
Benzene
Formaldehyde
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HEI Report Finds Evidence of Health Effects in Children Near Major Roads

A new report by a Special Panel of the Health Effects Institute (HEI) has found there is sufficient evidence that exposures to traffic-related air pollution cause asthma exacerbation in children and suggestive evidence that they might cause other health effects. Read More...

USA: EPA Unveils Stricter Smog Standards

THURSDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed stricter standards for smog, which has been linked to a variety of health problems, including aggravated asthma and premature death from heart and lung disease. Read More...

Health: Nothing new in carbon monoxide poisoning

Basalt police officer Mike Taylor said Friday he has been unable to check in on the health of the couple, who were found unconscious in their bed Thursday morning, rushed to Aspen Valley Hospital and airlifted to a Denver hospital. The last he had heard they would be OK. Read More...

USA: EPA says greenhouse gases endanger human health

The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment. Read More...

USA: 3 Bets the DOE Is Placing on Science to Break the Climate Stalemate

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for energy put out its second call for new ideas, and this time, the agency has narrowed its focused to three research fields. Read More...

USA/California: In East Bay, where pollution goes, health problems follow

In some hardscrabble East Bay neighborhoods, people die of heart disease and cancer at three times the rates found just a few miles away in more well-to-do communities. Read More...

USA: Green street project aims to keep toxic water out of Chesapeake Bay

A small town in Maryland is setting a precedent in eco-friendly road construction, breaking ground this week on one of the greenest streets in the nation.
The tiny port town of Edmonston in Prince George’s County is billing the thoroughfare as the greenest on the East Coast. The road will help clean and filter toxic storm water pollution that drains into rivers, and eventually into Chesapeake Bay.
“What we’re hoping to do, from top to bottom, is build a street that is completely environmentally sustainable, ” said Edmonston Mayor Adam Ortiz.
Ortiz says the blueprint incorporates native tree cover to cool off the streets, wind-powered street lights that use high-efficiency LED bulbs, and pedestrian and bicycle access
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Why is Air Pollution a Danger to Our Environment?

Although we all are familiar with air pollution, and know it is a very real
problem that affects our environment and all of us, most of us tend to ignore it
as if it does not exist. This is particularly easy for people who live in rural
areas and do not see on a daily basis its extent: they do not see smog,
factories, or millions of cars on the road polluting our air. Read More...