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Fewer fumes: What the switch to electric vehicles means for Jacksonville | Climate Central

www.climatecentral.org·7 months ago
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By Ayurella Horn-Muller (Climate Central) , Brendan Rivers  (ADAPT), and Danielle Uliano (WJXT) At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and during the ensuing economic slowdown, Jacksonville virtually shut down. Businesses shuttered their doors and most who were able to started working from home. That meant far fewer internal combustion engine vehicles were being driven, leading to massive  reductions in air pollution  and noticeably cleaner air. “There was definitely less traffic,” said Veronica Glover, a lifelong resident of Jacksonville’s Urban Core and the executive director of  the Sister Hermana Foundation , a non-profit that helps families fighting cancer. The only time Glover noticed any serious traffic was during the food giveaway events that she helped organize or at COVID-19 testing sites across the city. Veronica Glover, left, and her mother Carolyn Myers, right.…

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