Energy Innovation

MARCH 9, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation launched the Oregon Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our newest state-specific, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan model that estimates the environmental, economic, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. By Shelley Wenzel. Business As Usual Scenario.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

New research seems to find that people who commute by car can be subject to higher levels of harmful pollutants than those who walk or cycle to work. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Leicester in partnership with Leicester City Council , is published in the Journal of Transport & Health.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

Researchers at the University of Birmingham and University of Oxford have secured £207,000 funding from the Natural Environment Research Council to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 related public health measures upon air and noise quality in Oxford. PM10); all are known to be a risk to human health.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

The network will provide “unprecedented ultra-high definition visibility of local air pollution”, says Marc Ottolini, CEO of AirLabs. The firm behind it hopes “to fundamentally transform how we monitor and manage air pollution to improve public health and well-being in urban spaces.” Early adopter.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2019

New data from King’s College London show 124 additional out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and 424 hospital admissions for stroke and asthma on higher pollution days. Head of NHS in England warns “this is a health emergency”. one of the most dangerous forms of pollution. one of the most dangerous forms of pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Evidence shows these policies are working; as of August 2021, 95% of heavy-duty vehicles operating in London are compliant with more stringent LEZ standards introduced in March 2021. These types of policies are especially important for addressing vehicles known to have real-world emissions well in exceedance of regulatory limits.

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Grist

JANUARY 24, 2024

.” Pedja Stojicic, instructor at Harvard’s school of public health The spotlight As climate impacts intensify, health care professionals are increasingly finding themselves at the front lines. From the perils of extreme heat to the spread of infectious diseases, climate change is a health crisis.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2023

This piece was authored by Muhammad Abdullah, an 2023 summer Transportation Policy intern with Energy Innovation and Energy Innovation’s Chris Busch, Director Transportation and Senior Economist. Ella Kissi-Debrah was born, raised, and died a tragically early death in south London, a hot spot for motor vehicle pollution.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Health costs incurred as a result of air pollution are collectively higher in London than any other city in Europe, according to study that quantifies how much money European city dwellers spend due to particulate matter, NO2, and ozone.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

Over the last 50 years African nations have suffered from rapidly deteriorating air quality, making their cities some of the most polluted in the world. However, far too little has been done to try and combat the dangerous air quality with just 0.01% of global air pollution funding currently spent in Africa.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The project will be led by air quality and public health consultants Enjoy the Air, in partnership with the Sandwell Council, to examine the link between air pollution, behaviour and the cost of air pollution-related healthcare in the Sandwell area.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

New data from the Department of Transport also shows a near 50% increase in van mileage on urban roads in the past decade. This is concerning for London’s poor air quality given recent EDF Europe analysis that uncovered nitrogen oxides (NOx) pollution from diesel cars was already higher at study sites outside the centre.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The EPS allows users to model numerous policies that affect energy use and emissions including a renewable portfolio standard, fuel economy standards for vehicles, industry methane standards, incentives for clean energy technologies like we see in the Inflation Reduction Act, and accelerated R&D advancement of various technologies.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The researchers used mandatory annual vehicle inspections – the MOT tests familiar to all in the UK – of all 65 million used vehicles on British roads between 2005 and 2021 to compare the pollution and emissions intensity of vehicles exported to those scrapped, destroyed, or driven in the UK. Exported vehicles were also 3.3

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

London Mayor calls for increased air pollution measures as new analysis reveals that London school children are four times more likely to be exposed to PM2.5. which exceed limits recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO), according to the London Mayor's office. in 2019 indicates 3.1

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation released new rese arch evaluating California’s climate progress and identifying a policy pathway that would reaffirm California as a climate leader. The Deeper Decarbonization Scenario shows California can rapidly cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while creating jobs and improving public health.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2022

On a micro level, the platform can identify daily ‘incidents’ which occur on one street but not another, and extreme pollution differences in time, shown in rush hour NO2. Findings include: · Tuesday, 1 March, the day of tube strikes in London, led to high increases in rush hour NO2, as more people relied on road transport.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 22, 2022

The PES reflects the plans, objectives and policies of each country and region, mainly approved as of the base year of analysis. To further reduce emissions from the transport sector, green hydrogen is recommended as an alternative fuel for heavy cargo road transport and international shipping.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has published its Scottish Pollutant Release Inventory (SPRI) data for 2020 following a cyber-attack in December 2020. SPRI provides a valuable picture of the amount of pollutants released in Scotland from SEPA-regulated industrial sites. Impact of COVID-19.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The vast majority of these trucks are heavy polluters, making trucking a major component of the carbon emissions linked with companies across the supply chain – as well as those of their investors. . The good news is that zero-emission trucks have become a credible alternative to the pollution-spewing diesel vehicles on the road today.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Residents of Jakarta, Indonesia woke up on August 31, 2023, to a thick blanket of haze and news that their city was again ranked the most polluted in the world — one of many times during the last several months when air quality became.

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The City Fix

MARCH 9, 2023

Transportation is a crucial enabler of economic development, providing people access to markets, employment, education, and health services. In addition to these development benefits, improving transport systems by making them cleaner, safer, more inclusive and more resilient accelerates climate action.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall "cap" lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

By Olivia Ashmoore This week, Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC® and RMI published 48 state Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) models. The free, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan EPS model empowers users to analyze the effects of hundreds of climate policies. climate goals. With the release of the U.S.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

The analysis, which looked at more than 3,500 fiscal policies across the world's 50 largest economies, finds that just 2.5 For instance, roughly 16 percent of recovery spending could bring positive air pollution impacts, but 16.4 percent is likely to increase net air pollution. billion focused on renewables and $18.5

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The UK government should increase tax on things we want less of - such as pollution - and reduce tax on things we want more of - such as jobs - explains Eunomia's Chris Sherrington. Unsurprisingly, with petrol and diesel cheaper than they otherwise would have been, emissions from road transport are higher than they would have been.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

DeSmog investigation uncovers lobbying by some road and freight trade bodies that may have delayed and watered down local UK measures to tackle illegal levels of air pollution. Air pollution is a serious public health issue and tackling it is essential for the health of people in towns and cities across the country," she said.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It’s a tried and tested policy. and Quebec, which lead Canada in EV sales, have their own versions of this policy, as do 17 U.S. More than 15,300 premature deaths each year in Canada are linked to air pollution while an assessment from earlier this year found that the new EV regulations alone could avoid up to 11,000 premature deaths.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2020

The UK's decarbonisation strategy should pay more attention to the public health benefits of lowering energy demand, the study from Green Alliance in collaboration with the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) argues. For example, shifting just 1.7

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This week, Energy Innovation launched a significant model update to the United States Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan model that estimates the environmental, economic, and health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. This update is timely. Input-Output Model.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Most polluting fuels for wood burning stoves including coal and wet wood to be phased out from 2021-23 as part of crackdown on particle pollution. By moving towards the use of cleaner fuels such as dry wood we can all play a part in improving the health of millions of people.".

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2021

That is the aim of a series of "climate and fairness panels" that are being conducted by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) with the representatives of local communities from some of the most deprived parts of the UK. That's an unfound superpower that just needs unlocking," the report quotes one juror as saying.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

The new economic impact report comes as Khan underlines his ambition to get more Londoners walking, cycling, and using public transport as the capital emerges from the Omicron COVID wave. Car use in the capital has remained high throughout the pandemic even as trips by public transport dropped 14 per cent between 2019 and 2020, TfL has said.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Evaluating regulations, subsidies, pricing mechanisms, and hybrid policies. The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. Regulation: The most effective carbon reduction policy option is regulation.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. More than a decade ago, national policies laid the groundwork for reducing air emissions in China.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Just over half of all directors at 30 of the world’s largest insurance companies have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, reveals an investigation by DeSmog, including several individuals holding senior roles at some of the world’s largest energy companies.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Transportation is expected to be the largest source of new greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through 2050, and a major driver of dangerous air pollution, which is disproportionately concentrated in low income communities and communities of color. Companies, too, have set transportation-specific targets.

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