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Home Posts tagged "Environment"

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Disease risk higher in highly polluted areas – COVID-19 risk greater?

April 1, 2020 April 1, 2020

With the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing we notice is the higher fatality rate for elderly patients, or for those with impaired health, or for those who are smokers. It seems that those with weaker immune systems have a harder time fighting off COVID-19, and therefore are more likely to result…

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Conservative values failing USA as EPA guts fuel efficiency standards, fails with COVID-19 response

April 1, 2020 April 1, 2020

The Republican party that’s in control of the Federal Government is stuck in Grover Norquist’s paradigm – that he famously wanted to shrink Government to be small enough to drag into the bathroom and drown in a baththub. What a violent fantasy that is! Yesterday the US Environmental Protection Agency…

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Bucharest abandons Oxygen tax, amid high pollution event

March 5, 2020 July 15, 2022
Illegal trash burning in Bucharest thought to have caused bad air quality problem in March 2020

Last week, on the eve of instituting a tax on polluting cars entering the central area of Bucharest, the Mayor of Bucharest, Gabriela Firea, abandoned the so-called Oxygen Tax plan. Under the plan cars not meeting the Euro 3 criteria would be banned from the center of Bucharest, and overall…

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NYC, LA, DC and 23 states sue EPA over rescinding emissions standards waiver

December 5, 2019 June 18, 2022

As we’ve been covering for awhile, the US Environmental Protection Agency has been threatening to yank California’s ability to set its own emissions standards. California and many other states have a long-standing precedent to set emissions standards and other environmental regulations. Under the Trump Administration everything that threatens the fossil…

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VW Group facing yawning chasm after intentionally cheating on emissions certification

September 21, 2015 October 21, 2015

It’s been a tumultuous weekend for the Volkswagen Group.  Last weeks announcement that the EPA and CARB are investigating the company over allegations that VW had fabricated  TDI Diesel car emissions results has thrown a monkey wrench into the credibility of not only the VW Group but the whole system of validating emissions…

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VW’s emissions cheating raises doubt over EPA’s clean air enforcement policies

September 18, 2015 October 21, 2015

Back in 2009-10 the VW Group released a series of TDI Diesel vehicles with excellent emissions results.  Those emissions were so good that at that time I wrote a piece saying VW’s TDI vehicles are not your grandfathers dirty diesel, and even raised the question whether VW would need hybrid vehicles…

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Eating snow or snow cream isn’t entirely safe, thanks to fossil fuel & industrial air pollution

January 7, 2015 October 19, 2015

It seems I missed out on something in childhood – Snow Cream – a treat that’s supposedly common for children to eat like Ice Cream.  While I’m sure I ate some snow here and there, it wasn’t flavored with anything – so far as I recall.  Only now did I…

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Are coal powered electric cars better than gasoline cars? Depends on the electricity source

September 9, 2014 March 30, 2015

Is your electric car powered by coal?  Routinely, electric cars are dismissed as being coal powered, and therefore the environmental fruitcake treehuggers flocking to electric cars are delusional.  That critique is really saying electric cars externalize all the negative environmental harm over to a power plant.  Is that true?  If…

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Transportation advocates looking to eliminate, or at least reduce, car use for environmental goals

August 28, 2014 March 30, 2015

There’s a movement afoot aiming to drastically reduce driving, the need for driving, and the need for parking, all in the name of environmental goodness.  The theory is that reducing vehicle miles traveled will reduce the negative environmental impact (like greenhouse gas emissions) from transportation, and there will be additional…

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Fuel source matters – fuel cell vehicles dirtier than gasoline, so why are FCEV’s getting so much attention?

May 30, 2014 May 13, 2015

Fuel cell’s seem like this magic technology – you pour in a clean fuel (hydrogen and oxygen) and out comes clean energy (electricity) and water.  Make a fuel cell big enough to power a car, or truck, and you’ve got a “clean” vehicle that can go a few hundred miles…

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Our work choice either harms or helps our world, either dooming us or leading us out of climate catastrophe

April 18, 2014 June 3, 2015

How can anyone whose job creates lots of problems in the world live with themselves?  The problems created by some jobs are obvious.  For example gasoline station attendants are enablers to all the ills that come from burning gasoline.  The job of an “insect/pest control” workers is spraying poison in…

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