All that comes out of the tailpipe is a little trickle of water and water vapor.
California has led the country in enacting stricter air pollution and tailpipe emission standards.
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And the only thing that comes out of the tailpipe would be water vapor.
Tailpipe emissions also would drop, since natural gas burns cleaner than diesel or gasoline.
It seems like a minor issue compared with tailpipe emissions or pesticide exposure.
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Earlier this year, the Obama administration announced the first-ever national tailpipe emissions standard.
For the first 35 miles, the Volt can drive gas- and tailpipe-emissions free using a full charge of electricity.
But I would love a future of no tailpipe emissions, no brown air visible as I approach downtown Houston every day.
Between 2007 and 2010 the agency also mandates a phased 92% reduction in the amount of NOx emitted from a truck's tailpipe.
The Endangerment Rule triggered the Tailpipe Rule, which in turn triggered Clean Air Act permitting requirements for major stationary GHG emitters.
EVs don't need fuel to power them, which means no tailpipe emissions.
In 2008, California sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for trying to block its enactment of tough new rules on tailpipe emissions.
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There is no way to capture carbon dioxide emissions at the tailpipe.
But as the federal tailpipe emissions deadline nears, car makers are having to come up with ways to balance out their fleet averages.
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For the first 35 miles, the Volt can drive gas- and tailpipe-emissions-free using a full charge of electricity stored in its 16-kWh lithium-ion battery.
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Across the street, a Range Rover was double-parked, its tailpipe fuming.
The 2011 Nissan LEAF, which uses no gas, was also rated best-in-class for the environment based on emitting zero greenhouse gases or other traditional tailpipe emissions.
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"Vern has to look at IBM, but he also has to look at who's coming up his tailpipe, " says Edward Zander, the former president of Sun.
Cox said Gore helped strengthen clean air health standards, sped clean up of Superfund toxic waste sites, reduced automobile tailpipe pollution, and protected America's spectacular landscapes.
Air Pollution Score rates tailpipe emissions for pollutants that cause smog, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the cleanest and 1 the dirtiest.
In January, he directed the Environmental Protection Agency to review California's request for a waiver from federal law so that it can set higher tailpipe emissions standards.
Reversing a position that it took during the Bush administration, the EPA on Tuesday granted California's request to impose stricter tailpipe emissions standards than federal law requires.
In addition, the administration will set a higher national standard for vehicle tailpipe emissions that matches the stringent rules that California and 13 other states sought to apply.
It's somewhat of a formality--last month, the administration announced that automakers agreed to a national standard for tailpipe emissions and an acceleration of the government's schedule for fuel-economy standards.
Black racks up an early lead with multiple hits before unleashing a streak of blue paint from its tailpipe, which scores big by causing White to skid out of control.
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His dashboard fuel gauge filled with images of intertwining green foliage, a symbolic representation of the environmental benefits we were apparently dispensing from the tailpipe as we aimlessly drove around.
Automakers historically have fought hard against tailpipe emission regulations.
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Tailpipe emissions standards are a much more important issue in California, which has them in place to control pollution from millions of cars, than in North Dakota, which does not have regulations.
The new standard is part of a broader package of regulations to cut vehicle tailpipe emissions and greenhouse cases and could mean 1.4 million electric, fuel cell and plug-in hybrid cars on California freeways by 2025.
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According to the Environmental Protection Agency, which regulates the stuff that comes out of the tailpipes of cars and trucks, it doesn't have the authority to regulate carbon dioxide, one of the main components of tailpipe exhaust.
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