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TODAY: EPA Administrator Media Call to Release Findings on Urban Air Toxics
Today, at 11 a.m. EDT, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy will hold a media conference call to discuss the second and final Integrated Urban Air Toxics (IUAT) Report to Congress. The report highlights the progress and remaining challenges since the release of the IUAT Strategy in 1999 in working with state, local and tribal agencies to help communities ...
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Director of CERC Chairs Symposium on `Albania: Architecture, Public Health and Urban Renaissance
Yesterday at the Architectural Association (AA) in London, Professor Lord Hunt of Chesterton, Director of CERC, chaired a symposium on the state of architecture, public health and urban renaissance in Albania. Erion Veliaj, Mayor of Tirana, spoke at the symposium about the emergence of Albanian society after the fall of Communism in the 1990s, the immense challenges the country faces going ...
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CERC holds Advanced Seminar on Regional and Urban Air Quality Management with Fudan University
Fudan University and CERC held a one day Seminar on Regional and Urban Air Quality management on 23 April at the Fudan University Campus in Shanghai. This seminar brought together top air quality policy makers and practitioners in Shanghai and Yangtzi Delta Region. CERC China Director Dr. Xiangyu Sheng presented CERC’s research work on PM2.5 and recent development of nesting ADMS-Urban with ...
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UAI Petitions EPA To Withdraw Flawed Emissions Model
On January 25, 2017, the Urban Air Initiative (UAI), along with the Energy Future Coalition and the states of Kansas and Nebraska, filed a request for correction of information petitioning EPA to correct its models on motor vehicle fuel emissions that limit the use of higher blends of ethanol. In the petition, UAI claims that EPA continues to publish inaccurate data regarding ethanol emissions ...
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Booth and Presentation at Air Quality 2009 Conference in Istanbul, Turkey
Title: Booth and Presentation at Air Quality 2009 Conference in Istanbul, TurkeyIVU Umwelt was present with two paper presentations and a booth at the Air Quality Conference 2009:'Air quality management - from traffic management to environmental traffic management'Download Paper: http://www.ivu-umwelt.de/upload/download/publikationen/2009_Istanbul/Air_quality_management.pdf'Air quality assessment ...
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A look at the EU`s research on electric cars
Electrified vehicles will be a key technology for future urban commuting, improving urban air quality and reducing dependence on oil and other fossil fuels. Electro-mobility is part of the alternative fuels mix promoted in the "Clean Power for Transport" legislative package launched by the Commission on 25 January 2013. The Joint Research Centre (JRC) has gathered information on more than 320 ...
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CERC interviewed live at ESA satellite launch
The Sentinel 5P satellite, the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere, will be launched on 13 October at 09:27 GMT. Mark Jackson of CERC will be giving a short interview during ESA's live webstream coverage of the launch. Mark will describe the airTEXT air quality forecasts for London. Copernicus forecasts of pollution across Europe are fed into the world-leading ...
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China-UK Urban Air Quality Management Workshop in Beijing
Air quality is one of the most critical environmental issues in China. CERC, in partnership with the School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, held a China-UK Urban Air Quality Management Workshop in Beijing on 13 June 2017. There were 20 speakers at the event, with over 90 participants. The topics covered air quality forecasting, urban air quality management, urban traffic pollution, air ...
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China-UK Urban Air Quality Management Workshop in Beijing
Air quality is one of the most critical environmental issues in China. CERC, in partnership with the School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, held a China-UK Urban Air Quality Management Workshop in Beijing on 13 June 2017. There were 20 speakers at the event, with over 90 participants. The topics covered air quality forecasting, urban air quality management, urban traffic pollution, air ...
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C40 Promoting Climate Action for Healthier City Living
With urban areas expected to accommodate two thirds of the world's population by 2050, radical action is needed to change the way we run our cities say C40, a network of cities committed to climate action. The new research findings, produced in collaboration with CERC, BuroHappold and LSHTM, show that if C40's 96 member cities take the ambitious actions outlined in the report they could see an ...
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12th Workshop AQURA
Bordeaux, 6 -7 october 2014 Chromatotec® was sponsor of this conference on Air Quality in Urban and Remote Areas and its Impacts on Climate ...
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Pegasor Aq Urban Excels in Urban air quality measurements
A study led by Finnish Meterological Institute showed that Pegasor AQ Urban provides long term measurements with reliable and repeatable results, when compared with reference grade methods. In the study several different instrument types were tested to study their applicability to complement standard methods in air quality measurements. Kuula J, Kuuluvainen H, Rönkkö T, Niemi JV, ...
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C40 promoting climate action for healthier city living
With urban areas expected to accommodate two thirds of the world's population by 2050, radical action is needed to change the way we run our cities say C40, a network of cities committed to climate action. The new research findings, produced in collaboration with CERC, BuroHappold and LSHTM, show that if C40's 96 member cities take the ambitious actions outlined in the report they could see an ...
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Praxis/Urban Air Quality Monitors deployed in Oxford
16 Praxis/Urban air quality monitors have been deployed around the city of Oxford as part of the OxAria research project. South Coast Science is one of the commercial partners for the project, supplying air quality monitoring devices. OxAria is a collaboration between academic, public and commercial partners that aims to understand the air and noise quality impacts of COVID-19 across Oxford ...
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COP26: Verifying Glasgow`s CO2 emissions using ADMS-Urban and measurements
Verification of carbon dioxide emissions is essential to achieving Net Zero and "keeping 1.5 alive". Researchers from CERC, Cambridge University, and ACOEM have collaborated on a project to verify CO2 emissions across greater Glasgow by combining measurements and CERC's ADMS-Urban air pollution dispersion model. The ongoing study, using available traffic data and emissions factors, suggests that ...
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NCA lifetime in urban environment
1nm * PSM * nCNC * NanoClusterAerosol * ParticleEmissions * Dispersion * YourResearch Lifetime of nanocluster aerosol in urban environmentNanocluster aerosol particles have longer than anticipated lifetime in urban air; and there are means to reduce their emissions! Nanocluster aerosol (NCA) particles emitted by traffic were detected still as far as 250 m from a highway, a ring road in ...
By Airmodus Oy
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ADMS-Urban providing air quality forecasts for Manchester
We are delighted to announce that Manchester (UK) residents can now sign up for free air quality alerts by text message, email and recorded call. The messages are based on a forecast of air quality to enable the public to plan ahead. CERC and Clean Air Greater Manchester are providing three-day forecasts of NO2, PM10, PM2.5 and ozone at street-scale resolution using CERC's ADMS-Urban modelling ...
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Optimising Local Air Quality Models Using Sensor Data - DMUG 2017
Amy Stidworthy from CERC recently presented preliminary results from an ongoing project to optimise ADMS-Urban modelling using data from a network of low cost pollution sensors at IAQM's annual conference for dispersion modellers, DMUG 2017. This work is part of a wider collaboration between CERC, Cambridge University, Cambridge City Council, Cambridgeshire County Council and AQMesh to ...
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Optimising local air quality models using sensor data - DMUG 2017
Amy Stidworthy from CERC recently presented preliminary results from an ongoing project to optimise ADMS-Urban modelling using data from a network of low cost pollution sensors at IAQM's annual conference for dispersion modellers, DMUG 2017. This work is part of a wider collaboration between CERC, Cambridge University, Cambridge City Council, Cambridgeshire County Council and AQMesh to ...
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EPA Report Shows Progress in Reducing Urban Air Toxics Across the United States
Today (Aug 21, 2014), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the Second Integrated Urban Air Toxics Report to Congress - the final of two reports required under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to inform Congress of progress in reducing public health risks from urban air toxics. “This report gives everyone fighting for clean air a lot to be proud of because for more than 40 years ...
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