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International Urban Transport Pollution and Modelling Conference in Tianjin, 8 December 2016
Hazardous smog is a very serious issue in China and currently a focus of great attention. CERC's Managing Director Dr. David Carruthers gave keynote presentations at the International Urban Transport Pollution and Modelling conference in Tianjin on the 8th December 2016. The conference was hosted by the Department of Environmental Science of Nankai University, with support from CERC China. During ...
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International Urban Transport Pollution and Modelling Conference in Tianjin, 8 December 2016
Hazardous smog is a very serious issue in China and currently a focus of great attention. CERC's Managing Director Dr. David Carruthers gave keynote presentations at the International Urban Transport Pollution and Modelling conference in Tianjin on the 8th December 2016. The conference was hosted by the Department of Environmental Science of Nankai University, with support from CERC China. During ...
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International Urban Transport Pollution and Modelling Conference in Tianjin, 8 December 2016
Hazardous smog is a very serious issue in China and currently a focus of great attention. CERC's Managing Director Dr. David Carruthers gave keynote presentations at the International Urban Transport Pollution and Modelling conference in Tianjin on the 8th December 2016. The conference was hosted by the Department of Environmental Science of Nankai University, with support from CERC China. During ...
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ADMS Workshop in Shanghai, 4-5 May 2016
CERC's Managing Director Dr. David Carruthers gave keynote presentations at the two day Urban Transport Pollution and ADMS User Group Workshop in Shanghai 4-5 May 2016. This workshop was jointly hosted by the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering of Fudan University and the Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences. During the workshop, the new version of ADMS-Urban/ADMS-EIA 4.0, ...
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ADMS workshop in Shanghai, 4-5 May 2016
CERC’s Managing Director Dr. David Carruthers gave keynote presentations at the two day Urban Transport Pollution and ADMS User Group Workshop in Shanghai 4-5 May 2016. This workshop was jointly hosted by the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering of Fudan University and the Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences. During the workshop, the new version of ADMS-Urban/ADMS-EIA ...
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Disaster Resilient Cities: CERC Workshop and Training in Kuala Lumpur
In December 2018, Dr Jenny Stocker and Mr Steve Smith from CERC presented at the 'Emissions Inventory and Air Quality Modelling Workshop' at the Universiti Kabangsaan Malaysia(UKM) as part of the Newton-Ungku Omar funded project 'Disaster Resilient Cities: Forecasting Local Level Climate Extremes & Physical Hazards for Kuala Lumpur'. This project, now in its third year, looks at forecasting ...
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Hearing air pollution: sound art from WM-Air
Air pollution concentration data for the West Midlands (UK), modelled with CERC's ADMS-Urban model, have had new interpretations created by sound artist Robert Jarvis which are now available to experience online. Listeners can watch the variation of air pollution with synchronised audio based on the spatially and temporally varying concentration levels representing either an average daily cycle ...
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Version 5 of IMMISem / IMMISair available
Version 5 of IMMISem/air, the model for road traffic emissions and air quality screening, now features an English user interface. Emission calculation is based on and in accordance with the current European Handbook for Emission factors (HBEFA 3.1). Major adjustments where necessary in IMMISem in order to reflect the new concept for the traffic situations. A model for calculating levels of ...
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EPA releases final report on air toxics near the Central Virginia Training Center
he U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made available today its final report on monitoring for air toxics near the Central Virginia Training Center in Madison Heights, Va. The report, posted on the agency’s website at http://www.epa.gov/schoolair/schools.html, concludes that EPA found no concern for short- or long-term health risks from air toxics, specifically microscopic airborne ...
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Air Quality Modelling for the Barbican Low Emissions Neighbourhood
The City of London Corporation received funding from the Mayor of London to implement a Low Emissions Neighbourhood in the Barbican, Guildhall and Barts area. One of the LEN proposals included options for restricting access to Beech Street, which runs underneath the Barbican, to all but the cleanest vehicles. The CERC Consultancy team worked with WSP to quantify the air quality impact of a ...
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Baker Awarded Environmental Air Quality Contract by PennDOT
Michael Baker Jr., Inc., a unit of Michael Baker Corporation (NYSE Amex:BKR), announced today that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has awarded Baker a five-year, $9.9 million multi-year contract to perform air quality and climate emissions modeling services. The contract includes development and execution of regional air quality ...
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Air quality modelling for the Barbican Low Emissions Neighbourhood
The City of London Corporation received funding from the Mayor of London to implement a Low Emissions Neighbourhood in the Barbican, Guildhall and Barts area. One of the LEN proposals included options for restricting access to Beech Street, which runs underneath the Barbican, to all but the cleanest vehicles. The CERC Consultancy team worked with WSP to quantify the air quality impact of a ...
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Integral Continues Support to Pulp and Paper Industry, Joins NCASI
As part of a commitment to helping pulp and paper clients reduce their environmental impacts, Integral has joined the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), an independent nonprofit research institute that focuses on topics of interest to the forest products industry. “Integral’s sustaining membership allows us to stay closely connected with NCASI’s technical ...
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U.S. EPA awards U.C. Berkeley $1.5 million to evaluate air pollution in developing nations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced it is awarding the University of California, Berkeley, a $1.5 million grant for work to assess the impact of pollution from household and village-scale stoves on air quality in developing countries. The grant is part of $9 million awarded nationally to six universities to research cleaner technologies and fuels for cooking, lighting, and ...
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Hexavalent Chromium is a Concern for Illinois Companies
The environmental and building consulting experts at EC2 provide hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) testing services to protect workers and the public from its deadly exposure. Last year the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) monitored the air at Saint Josaphat School in Chicago, Illinois. According to the EPA website, “EPA selected this school for monitoring because it is located near a ...
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EPA releases final report on toxic air pollution near manhattan i.s. 143 school finds pollutants below levels of concern
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that a two-month study of toxic air pollution outside Intermediate School 143, a Manhattan, New York middle school at 511 West 182nd Street, did not find levels of significant concern. During April and May 2010, EPA monitored for 1,3-butadiene and benzene, which are air pollutants commonly associated with cars, trucks, buses and other ...
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Air toxics near toledo elementary school are below levels of concern
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10 today released the final report on analysis of air toxics monitoring data near Toledo Elementary School in Toledo, Oregon. The report is posted at: http://www.epa.gov/schoolair. EPA and Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will present the results and answer questions about the air monitoring report at DEQ’s Georgia-Pacific ...
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US program removes one million mercury switches from scrap cars
A US program that has cut more than one ton of mercury has reached a major milestone: 1 million switches have been removed from scrapped vehicles. The millionth mercury switch was removed through the National Vehicle Mercury Switch Recovery Program, a collaboration among the US Environemtnal Protection Agency, automobile manufacturers, steel makers, scrap recyclers, automotive recyclers, states ...
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IONICON PTR-TOF-MS helps providing new insights and a SCIENCE paper
J.-H. Park et al. were relying on an IONICON PTR-TOF 8000 instrument to study fluxes of an unprecedented number of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) simultaneously. Their results, “Active Atmosphere-Ecosystem Exchange of the Vast Majority of Detected Volatile Organic Compounds“, have recently been published in the prestigious SCIENCE Magazine. Using traditional measurement techniques, ...
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Final clean air permit issued for pioneer valley facility in Westfield, Mass.
EPA has issued a final Clean Air Act permit to the Pioneer Valley Energy Center for the construction and operation of a new 431 MW/hr combined cycle gas turbine in Westfield, Mass. The permit is designed to prevent the significant deterioration of air quality resulting from the plant’s operation. The federal Clean Air Act requires new major sources of air pollutants in areas which ...
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