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All new cars in California now carry smog, global warming scores

Since the beginning of the year, all 2009 model year vehicles (and anything newer, once they're available) sold in California will be sporting a new sticker. No, not the kind that makes your car worth $4,000 more but the kind that describes the vehicle's global warming and smog scores. Just look under the hood of that new car (if you're the unusual kind of person who's still out there car shopping) and you'll see it, courtesy of the California Air Resources Board. As some of you pointed out in the summer when we first got word of these new ... Read more →

Is the solution to severe smog in Houston more time? Domenick Yoney

Move over Los Angeles, the city of Houston, Texas is now also officially on the "severe smog problem" list. The reclassification was requested by Governor Rick Perry last year and the Environmental ...

Subaru asks, Pogo or PZEV? Domenick Yoney

Subaru doesn't have any hybrids in its line up and its electric car program, based around the R1e, is still in its (seemingly never-ending) infancy, but it does have partial zero-emission vehicles ...

Arvin California, an agricultural town, is home to the nation's worst air pollution Jeremy Korzeniewski

The question of whether or not people should be forced into driving smaller cars with engines that emit less pollutants is one that is likely to be debated for quite some time. Many believe that it ...

Removing nitrogen-oxide emissions from diesel exhausts without urea Jeremy Korzeniewski

Whether or not you believe in global warming, nitrogen-oxides, or NOx, definitely does contribute to acid rain and smog, which are not debatable. Because NOx is emitted in large quantities from the ...

Watch the cloud of black smog fill the ... balloon? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

This is a pretty compelling picture as far as I am concerned. According to this site, which is where I got the information I'm relaying to you from, says that this balloon, which is attached to the tailpipe of a car in China, is filled with the exhaust from one day's worth of driving. That does not ...

Smog: Is it getting any better? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Smog, a word made up of equal parts smoke and fog, is a problem affecting many urban areas in the U.S. and abroad. Smog is caused in part by automobiles and trucks, power plants and refineries. We don't really need to talk too much about it, we are all familiar with smog, whether we personally ...


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