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EVs are lowering Bay Area's carbon footprint (news.berkeley.edu)

submitted 7 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/environment@beehaw.org

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these of course come with their own tradeoffs, but you take what you can get

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[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'd be curious to know whether urban air quality in general is improving also?

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://www.aqmd.gov/home/air-quality/historical-air-quality-data/historical-data-by-year

Comparing 2021 and 2022 it looks like there are marginal gains in quality, so I wouldn't be surprised if this trend continued (if I'm reading it correctly of course)

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Those charts seem to be from SoCal. This might be a better reference for Bay Area: https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-air-quality/current-air-quality/air-monitoring-data/#/

Worth adding that Bay Area has manufacturing and refining. Not sure how much that affects air quality relative to cars.

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah I was looking for a good historical air quality data set and just went with the closest I could find.

Chevron certainly needs to have eyes on it!

[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The researchers in the article seem to be interested in that as well. They see their research as a pilot forhow to get useful measurements in many urban centers. I hope they receive more funding.