Interviews with participants at the International Council on Clean Transportation meeting in March 2011, reflecting on some of the policy achievements of the last decade worldwide and looking ahead to the challenges of the next ten years.
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A new study claims emissions from diesel vehicles cause tens of thousands of premature deaths a year worldwide, many of them in China. One major reason: the inadequate testing of those vehicles.
How did Volkswagen get caught rigging the emissions software of its diesel vehicles? William Brangham talks with John German of the International Council on Clean Transportation, one of the enginee...
How will Volkswagen rebound from this fall’s revelations of its diesel emissions violations? What are the outcomes of such transgressions in the auto industry? Will the EPA’s enforcement efforts im...
Tim DeFries uses second-by-second chassis dynamometer data to demonstrate some basic capabilities of PlantPAx ModelBuilder software. While designed with engineered chemical processes in mind, the s...
Soot, also known as black carbon, is the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide, and it's totally preventable. We already have the technology to avoid producing it; it's just a...
Ohio Environmental Council (OEC) tests the tail pipes of a retrofitted bus with a conventional bus. The retrofitted bus has a diesel particulate filter (DPF) which reduces diesel soot by as much a...
Four years ago, the Chinese government adopted aggressive targets to improve energy efficiency in the industrial facilities responsible for most of China's energy use and carbon emissions. In the f...
Over the past decade, China has become the world's leading manufacturer of solar energy technologies; China's solar manufacturers have helped drive down the cost of solar power around the world wit...