{"id":317489,"date":"2017-05-18T07:14:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T11:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=07db1c7e9ce7a25227cf8c42c81fe0cc"},"modified":"2017-05-18T07:14:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T11:14:49","slug":"combining-china-climate-policy-and-vehicle-emissions-standards-could-pack-a-one-two-punch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=317489","title":{"rendered":"Combining China climate policy and vehicle emissions standards could pack a one-two punch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study estimates that about 1.6 million people in China die each year\u2014roughly 4,000 a day\u2014from heart, lung, and stroke disorders due to poor air quality. Most of the nation&#8217;s lethal air pollution, including headline-grabbing toxins such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ground-level ozone (O3), is produced in its coal-dominated energy and industrial sectors. But a substantial and growing contributor to the problem is road transportation; as private vehicle ownership and freight traffic increase, so, too, do ambient concentrations of pollutants from gasoline and diesel fuel exhaust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study estimates that about 1.6 million people in China die each year&mdash;roughly 4,000 a day&mdash;from heart, lung, and stroke disorders due to poor air quality. Most of the nation&#8217;s lethal air pollution, including headline-grabbing toxins such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ground-level ozone (O3), is produced in its coal-dominated energy and industrial sectors. But a substantial and growing contributor to the problem is road transportation; as private vehicle ownership and freight traffic increase, so, too, do ambient concentrations of pollutants from gasoline and diesel fuel exhaust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317490,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317489\/revisions\/317490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}