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"100 Times More Polluting": Study Reveals Industries You Didn't Know Were Harming Your Air
A study led by the University of York has found that sectors like shipping, aviation, and construction face much weaker legal controls on nitrogen oxide emissions compared to home heating or cars.
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SpaceX Starship Flight 7 Explosion Raises Concerns Over Air Pollution
The explosion of SpaceX’s Starship Flight 7 in mid-January has raised concerns among scientists about atmospheric pollution. The upper stage, weighing 85 tons without fuel, detonated at 90 miles (146 km) above Earth, potentially releasing 45.5 metric tons of metal oxides and 40 metric tons of nitrogen oxides. Experts warn these pollutants could i...
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Green Panel Slaps Fine Of Rs 171-Crore On Volkswagen For Air Pollution
A four-member committee formed by the National Green Tribunal has recommended Rs 171.34 crore fine on German auto major Volkswagen as "health damages" for causing air pollution in Delhi due to excess nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions.
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Truckmaker Volvo To Take $778 Million Emissions Hit
Sweden's Volvo is setting aside 7 billion Swedish crowns ($778 million) to cover costs related to its admission in October that its truck and bus engines could be exceeding limits for nitrogen oxide emissions. The company, which makes trucks, construction equipment and buses, said on Thursday the estimated costs were based on factors including vehi...
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All New Euro 6 Diesel Cars Are Still Highly Polluting, Says Study
TRUE made public a ratings system reflecting real-world emissions of nitrogen oxides measured for over 90 per cent of PVs registrations in Europe.
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Audi Recalls 5,000 Diesel Cars To Fix Emissions Control Software
Volkswagen was found in 2015 to have illegally manipulated engine software so that vehicles would meet nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions standards in laboratory testing but not in real-world conditions, where they could emit up to 40 times the permitted levels.
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Audi Recalls 5,000 Diesel Cars To Fix Emissions Control Software
Audi is recalling almost 5,000 cars in Europe for a software fix after discovering they emitted too much nitrogen oxide, the polluting gas that parent Volkswagen concealed from U.S. regulators in its devastating 2015 "dieselgate" scandal.
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European Union Raids Daimler, Volkswagen In Cartel Inquiry
Volkswagen, its units Porsche and Audi, Daimler's Mercedes and BMW may have used industry committee meetings to fix the size of tanks for AdBlue, a liquid used to treat nitrogen oxide in diesel emissions.
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A Diesel-Run SUV May Be Emitting 25-65 Times More NOx, Says New Study
Adding one diesel SUV to the city fleet in Delhi-NCR is equal to adding 25 to 65 small petrol cars in terms of nitrogen oxide, a very harmful gas that also forms deadly ozone.
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EPA Suspected Fiat Chrysler Of Using 'Defeat Device' In 2015
Byron Bunker, director of the EPA's Transportation and Air Quality compliance division, said in a January 2016 email to Fiat Chrysler, obtained by Reuters under the Freedom of Information Act, that he was "very concerned about the unacceptably slow pace" of the automaker's efforts to explain high nitrogen oxide emissions from some of its vehicles.
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Munich, Home To BMW, Considers Diesel Ban To Tackle Pollution
The scandal over rigged diesel emissions tests at German carmaker Volkswagen has thrown the engine technology into doubt and has highlighted carmakers' struggle to comply with ever stricter rules capping nitrogen oxides emissions.
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Volvo Cars To Stop Developing New Diesel Engines: CEO
Volvo will invest in electric and hybrid cars, with its first pure electric model due on the market in 2019.
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'Excess' Car Pollution Killed 38,000 In 2015: Study
"Excess" diesel truck and car emissions claimed about 38,000 lives worldwide in 2015, said a study Monday that sought to quantify deaths due to pollution that car-makers sought to hide.
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Violent Young Sun May Have Seeded Life on Earth: Study
Super-flares could've smashed nitrogen in Earth's air to yield a greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide, as well as hydrogen cyanide, which produces the building blocks of proteins.
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Mercedes to Maruti: Cars Causing More Pollution in India Than Europe
From Mercedes to Maruti cars in India emits almost 4 and a half times more cancer causing particulate matter and over double the amount of the poisonous nitrogen oxide than the same model made for Europe.
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"100 Times More Polluting": Study Reveals Industries You Didn't Know Were Harming Your Air
A study led by the University of York has found that sectors like shipping, aviation, and construction face much weaker legal controls on nitrogen oxide emissions compared to home heating or cars.
-
SpaceX Starship Flight 7 Explosion Raises Concerns Over Air Pollution
The explosion of SpaceX’s Starship Flight 7 in mid-January has raised concerns among scientists about atmospheric pollution. The upper stage, weighing 85 tons without fuel, detonated at 90 miles (146 km) above Earth, potentially releasing 45.5 metric tons of metal oxides and 40 metric tons of nitrogen oxides. Experts warn these pollutants could i...
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Green Panel Slaps Fine Of Rs 171-Crore On Volkswagen For Air Pollution
A four-member committee formed by the National Green Tribunal has recommended Rs 171.34 crore fine on German auto major Volkswagen as "health damages" for causing air pollution in Delhi due to excess nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions.
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Truckmaker Volvo To Take $778 Million Emissions Hit
Sweden's Volvo is setting aside 7 billion Swedish crowns ($778 million) to cover costs related to its admission in October that its truck and bus engines could be exceeding limits for nitrogen oxide emissions. The company, which makes trucks, construction equipment and buses, said on Thursday the estimated costs were based on factors including vehi...
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All New Euro 6 Diesel Cars Are Still Highly Polluting, Says Study
TRUE made public a ratings system reflecting real-world emissions of nitrogen oxides measured for over 90 per cent of PVs registrations in Europe.
-
Audi Recalls 5,000 Diesel Cars To Fix Emissions Control Software
Volkswagen was found in 2015 to have illegally manipulated engine software so that vehicles would meet nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions standards in laboratory testing but not in real-world conditions, where they could emit up to 40 times the permitted levels.
-
Audi Recalls 5,000 Diesel Cars To Fix Emissions Control Software
Audi is recalling almost 5,000 cars in Europe for a software fix after discovering they emitted too much nitrogen oxide, the polluting gas that parent Volkswagen concealed from U.S. regulators in its devastating 2015 "dieselgate" scandal.
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European Union Raids Daimler, Volkswagen In Cartel Inquiry
Volkswagen, its units Porsche and Audi, Daimler's Mercedes and BMW may have used industry committee meetings to fix the size of tanks for AdBlue, a liquid used to treat nitrogen oxide in diesel emissions.
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A Diesel-Run SUV May Be Emitting 25-65 Times More NOx, Says New Study
Adding one diesel SUV to the city fleet in Delhi-NCR is equal to adding 25 to 65 small petrol cars in terms of nitrogen oxide, a very harmful gas that also forms deadly ozone.
-
EPA Suspected Fiat Chrysler Of Using 'Defeat Device' In 2015
Byron Bunker, director of the EPA's Transportation and Air Quality compliance division, said in a January 2016 email to Fiat Chrysler, obtained by Reuters under the Freedom of Information Act, that he was "very concerned about the unacceptably slow pace" of the automaker's efforts to explain high nitrogen oxide emissions from some of its vehicles.
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Munich, Home To BMW, Considers Diesel Ban To Tackle Pollution
The scandal over rigged diesel emissions tests at German carmaker Volkswagen has thrown the engine technology into doubt and has highlighted carmakers' struggle to comply with ever stricter rules capping nitrogen oxides emissions.
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Volvo Cars To Stop Developing New Diesel Engines: CEO
Volvo will invest in electric and hybrid cars, with its first pure electric model due on the market in 2019.
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'Excess' Car Pollution Killed 38,000 In 2015: Study
"Excess" diesel truck and car emissions claimed about 38,000 lives worldwide in 2015, said a study Monday that sought to quantify deaths due to pollution that car-makers sought to hide.
-
Violent Young Sun May Have Seeded Life on Earth: Study
Super-flares could've smashed nitrogen in Earth's air to yield a greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide, as well as hydrogen cyanide, which produces the building blocks of proteins.
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Mercedes to Maruti: Cars Causing More Pollution in India Than Europe
From Mercedes to Maruti cars in India emits almost 4 and a half times more cancer causing particulate matter and over double the amount of the poisonous nitrogen oxide than the same model made for Europe.
