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EVs are lowering Bay Area's carbon footprint
A UC Berkeley monitoring network recorded a small yearly decrease in CO2 emissions that they ascribe to the adoption of electric vehicles.
The network of sensors, most of them in the East Bay, is the brainchild of Ronald Cohen, UC Berkeley professor of chemistry, who envisions inexpensive, publicly funded pollution and carbon dioxide monitors widely distributed around urban areas to pinpoint emission sources and the neighborhoods most affected. The UC Berkeley team's estimates combined direct CO 2 measurements with meteorological data to calculate ground-level emissions — an approach using atmospheric observations that did pick up the modest downturn in CO 2 levels. Los Angeles, California; Providence, Rhode Island; and Glasgow, Scotland, have already adopted Cohen's sensors to create their own pollution monitoring networks.
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