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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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Laker worked with the IEEE Board of Directors in the early 1990s to purchase personal computers for the organization’s leaders to make it easier to conduct IEEE business via the Internet. Laker joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 as an EE professor. Ken Laker , the 1999 IEEE president, died on 2 August at the age of 76.

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US PIRG report finds reduced driving and rates of car commuting in most populous US urbanized areas

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Among the report’s national findings: The proportion of workers commuting by private vehicle—either alone or in a carpool—declined in 99 out of 100 of America’s most populous urbanized areas between 2000 and the 2007-2011 period averaged in US Census data. Behavior Personal Transit Urban mobility'

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EIA releases report on CO2 emissions by state; California led in 2010 with transportation-sector emissions

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The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released a new report, State-Level Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2000-2010. mt CO 2 ); and Pennsylvania (256.6 tonnes of CO 2 per person), followed by North Dakota (80.4 tonnes/person) and Alaska (54.6 tonnes/person). Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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Study: California will hit climate targets >100 years too late at current pace of reductions; transportation, wildfires & landfills

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Since 2000, electricity has been the only economic sector that has seen continuous and significant improvements in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. vehicles per 100 persons in 2018. vehicles per 100 persons. Noel Perry, founder of Next 10. The vehicle ownership rate is increasing faster than ever, reaching 80.6