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California ARB posts discussion document for developing Advanced Clean Transit (ACT) regulation

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The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has posted a discussion document. The 2000 Fleet Rule for Transit Agencies (Transit Fleet Rule) required reductions in both criteria pollutant emissions and exposure to air contaminants from urban buses and transit fleet vehicles. Source: ARB. Click to enlarge. Background.

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Study finds that replacing older, highly polluting school buses could lead to 1.3 million fewer daily absences annually

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Applying their results nationwide, the researchers extrapolated that replacing all pre-2000 model school buses would lead to more than 1.3 While it is considered the safest mode of transportation from a traffic accident perspective, concerns about levels of emissions are well documented. million additional days of attendance a year.

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Gallup Poll Finds Surge in Positive Ratings of Auto Industry in US; Still Less Favorable Than in 2000-2005

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Automobile and banking were the two industries most adversely affected by the recent recession, and Gallup documented significant decreases in the percentage of Americans viewing each positively. The computer and restaurant industries are rated most positively, while the oil and gas industry receives the worst ratings.

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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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In 2000 he helped found DFT, which manufactured test equipment for high-speed semiconductor interfaces. He later was named chair of the new IEEE Electronic Services Steering Committee, which oversaw the purchase of computers for all IEEE Board members to digitize thousands of IEEE documents. He served as its CEO for two years.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. But Trek 2000 hardly became a household name. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000.

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NHTSA fines Ferrari $3.5M for failing to submit early warning reports, three fatal accidents

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EWR reports are required under the Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation (TREAD) Act of 2000. Companies that violate the law and fail to comply will be subject to comparable swift NHTSA enforcement action. —NHTSA Deputy Administrator David Friedman.

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Satellite study shows drought-stricken Colorado River Basin states depleting their groundwater

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According to the US Bureau of Reclamation, the federal water management agency, the basin has been suffering from prolonged, severe drought since 2000 and has experienced the driest 14-year period in the last hundred years. Pumping from underground aquifers is regulated by individual states and is often not well documented.

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