Transportation emissions are gases released into the air that come from fossil fuels. The gases emit

Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring chemical compound composed of two oxygen atoms covalently bonded to a single carbon atom...

, which is not only a green house gas but one the most emitted gases. Transportation emissions are one of the biggest contributors to emitting since everyone needs transportation. Along with Carbon Dioxide, Nitrous Oxide is also another gas emitted from transportation such as cars. There are some ways to reduce your transportation emissions such as, driving less, or driving a more fuel efficient car

Reduction

There are simple ways to reduce transportation emissions like buying a fuel efficient car. Carpooling and by using fuels that make zero carbon dioxide are other great ways to have lower discharge of transportation emissions The best way to stop emitting transportation emissions is to stop using cars. Overall using less biofuel such as wood, oil, and gas will decrease your emission output

Consequences

The emissions pollute the air we breathe, therefore it is unhealthy for everyone.It contributes to global warming by transmitting greenhouse gases. The gases stay in the earth's atmosphere impacting everyone living in it. It causes health problems along with the extinction of species.

See also

• Air Hygiene Foundation
  Air Hygiene Foundation
  The Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, originally named the Air Hygiene Foundation and also called the Industrial Health Foundation, is a business trade organization concerned with occupational health in industrial businesses...
  
  
• Air pollutant concentrations
  Air pollutant concentrations
  Air pollutant concentrations, as measured or as calculated by air pollution dispersion modeling, must often be converted or corrected to be expressed as required by the regulations issued by various governmental agencies...
  
  
• Air pollution in British Columbia
  Air pollution in British Columbia
  Air pollution is a concern in British Columbia, Canada because of its effects on health and visibility. Air quality is influenced in British Columbia by numerous mountain ranges and valleys, which complicate atmospheric pollution dispersion and can lead to high concentrations of pollutants such as...
  
  
• Air Quality Index
  Air Quality Index
  Air quality is defined as a measure of the condition of air relative to the requirements of one or more biotic species or to any human need or purpose. Air quality indices are numbers used by government agencies to characterize the quality of the air at a given location...
  
  
• Air stagnation
  Air stagnation
  Air stagnation is a phenomenon which occurs when an air mass remains over an area for an extended period of time. Due to light winds and lack of precipitation, pollutants cannot be cleared from the air, either gaseous or particulate...
  
  
• Atmospheric chemistry
  Atmospheric chemistry
  Atmospheric chemistry is a branch of atmospheric science in which the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere and that of other planets is studied. It is a multidisciplinary field of research and draws on environmental chemistry, physics, meteorology, computer modeling, oceanography, geology and...
  
  
• Atmospheric dispersion modeling
  Atmospheric dispersion modeling
  Atmospheric dispersion modeling is the mathematical simulation of how air pollutants disperse in the ambient atmosphere. It is performed with computer programs that solve the mathematical equations and algorithms which simulate the pollutant dispersion...
  
  
• Bibliography of atmospheric dispersion modeling
• List of atmospheric dispersion models
• Critical load
  Critical load
  In the study of air pollution, a critical load is defined as ”A quantitative estimate of an exposure to one or more pollutants below which significant harmful effects on specified sensitive elements of the environment do not occur according to present knowledge”...
  
  
• Emission standard
  Emission standard
  Emission standards are requirements that set specific limits to the amount of pollutants that can be released into the environment. Many emissions standards focus on regulating pollutants released by automobiles and other powered vehicles but they can also regulate emissions from industry, power...
  
  
• Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID)
  Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID)
  The Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database is a comprehensive source of data on the environmental characteristics of almost all electric power generated in the United States. eGRID is issued by the U.S...
  
  
• Environmental agreement
  Environmental agreement
  This is a list of international environmental agreements. Most of the following agreements are legally binding.-Alphabetical order:*Aarhus Convention Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, Aarhus, 1998*Alpine...
  
  
• Environmentalism
  Environmentalism
  Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of non-human elements...
  
  

• Global Atmosphere Watch
  Global Atmosphere Watch
  The Global Atmosphere Watch is a worldwide system established by the World Meteorological Organization a United Nations agency to monitor trends in the Earth's atmosphere...
  
  
• Global warming
  Global warming
  Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...
  
  
• Greenhouse effect
  Greenhouse effect
  The greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal radiation from a planetary surface is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases, and is re-radiated in all directions. Since part of this re-radiation is back towards the surface, energy is transferred to the surface and the lower atmosphere...
  
  
• Indicator value
  Indicator value
  Ellenberg's indicator values are simple ordinal classes of organisms with a similar realized ecological niche along a gradient. The latest edition of Ellenberg's indicator values contain values on a 9 point scale for soil acidity, productivity/nutrients, soil humidity, continentality, soil salt...
  
  
• International Agency for Research on Cancer
  International Agency for Research on Cancer
  The International Agency for Research on Cancer is an intergovernmental agency forming part of the World Health Organisation of the United Nations....
  
  
• List of accidents and disasters by death toll#Smog pollution
• Low-emission zone
• Lowest Achievable Emissions Rate
  Lowest Achievable Emissions Rate
  Lowest Achievable Emissions Rate is used by the Environmental Protection Agency to determine if emissions from a new or modified major stationary source are acceptable under SIP guidelines....
  
  
• National Ambient Air Quality Standards
  National Ambient Air Quality Standards
  The National Ambient Air Quality Standards are standards established by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under authority of the Clean Air Act that apply for outdoor air throughout the country...
  
   (USA EPA)
• Particulate
• Polluter pays principle
  Polluter pays principle
  In environmental law, the polluter pays principle is enacted to make the party responsible for producing pollution responsible for paying for the damage done to the natural environment. It is regarded as a regional custom because of the strong support it has received in most Organisation for...
  
  
• Smog
  Smog
  Smog is a type of air pollution; the word "smog" is a portmanteau of smoke and fog. Modern smog is a type of air pollution derived from vehicular emission from internal combustion engines and industrial fumes that react in the atmosphere with sunlight to form secondary pollutants that also combine...
  
   and Haze
  Haze
  Haze is traditionally an atmospheric phenomenon where dust, smoke and other dry particles obscure the clarity of the sky. The World Meteorological Organization manual of codes includes a classification of horizontal obscuration into categories of fog, ice fog, steam fog, mist, haze, smoke, volcanic...
  
  
• Spare the Air program
  Spare the Air program
  Spare the Air is a program established by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District in 1991 to combat air pollution during the summer in the San Francisco Bay Area, the season when clear skies, hot temperatures, lighter winds, and a strong temperature inversion combine and trap air pollutants...
  
   (California)
• Stench
• Tire fire
  Tire fire
  Tire fires, where tires are stored, dumped or processed, exist in two forms: as fast-burning events, leading to almost immediate loss of control, and as slow-burning pyrolysis which can continue for over a decade. They are noted for being difficult to extinguish. Such fires produce a lot of smoke,...