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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District is replacing 48 trucks model year 1991-2003 with trucks powered by 2013 or newer model year engines. is providing incentives to voluntarily replace 19 drayage trucks operating 1995-2003 engines. The full list of projects selected for 2014 DERA funds: California. North Carolina.

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Fluor becomes majority investor in NuScale Power and enters small modular reactor market

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an Oregon-based small modular reactor (SMR) technology company. NuScale Power is commercializing, a modular, scalable 45 Megawatt electric Light Water Reactor nuclear power plant. Water in the reactor circulates using a convection process known as natural circulation. NuScale plants are compact.

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Federal-Mogul introduces new range of low- and zero-copper brake pad materials to meet new legislation

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The copper that ends up in streams, rivers and coastal waters can be toxic to aquatic organisms such as phytoplankton, which make up the base of the food chain and whose health affects entire ecosystems. the San Francisco Bay watershed in 2003, according to a source inventory by the Brake Pad Partnership.

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Mitsubishi to begin offering customers test drives of North American spec i-MiEV in November

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First shown as a concept vehicle at the 2003 Frankfurt Motor Show, the production car version of Mitsubishi i was introduced to the Japanese public in January 2006. The synchronous permanent magnetic motor with neodymium magnet weighs 108 lb (49 kg) and is water-cooled. Background. In its home market, the Mitsubishi i was a keijid?sha—a

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

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Sonoma County Water Agency "Sparky" by Hymotion, May 2007, (Santa Rosa, CA), contact: sherwood@scwa.ca.gov Wisconsin Public Power Inc. Burbank Water and Power 2007 Prius by Energy CS, May 2007, (Burbank, CA). National Rural Electric Cooperative Association / Salem Electric PHEV Escape by Hybrids Plus , Sept 25, 2007, (Salem, Oregon).

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