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Study finds NYC Clean Air Taxi rules successful in cutting pollution

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Between 2009 and 2015, the legislation more than doubled the fuel efficiency of the fleet of 13,500 yellow taxis, leading to estimated declines in air pollution emissions. The findings are published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. exhaust emissions declined by 82% and 49%, respectively.

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California ARB approves cap-and-trade amendments; linking with Ontario

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The Board action includes adopting amendments that have been in development since late 2015, and were first heard by the Board in September 2016. The amendments include linking with Ontario, which launched its own cap-and-trade program earlier this year. California is on track to achieve its 2020 goal.

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Study links California regulations, significant declines in cancer risk from exposure to air toxics

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In 2006, California began requiring ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel. Neighborhoods in freight corridors, including those near ports, will especially benefit. Estimating DPM. ARB regulations have reduced air toxics emissions from vehicles and their fuels, from stationary sources and from consumer products since the mid-1980s. 5b02766.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore. Henn Tan holds up a ThumbDrive during an interview in Singapore in January 2006. Meanwhile, worldwide sales of computer equipment had started to boom. Trek’s struggles and Tan’s fall.

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The EV Professor

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Eventually, GM pried our car away,” Cox continued, explaining that the next time he experienced an EV was at a Tesla event in 2006 in Santa Monica, California, where he rode in a prototype Tesla Roadster. “My Too bad the cars were no longer available by then.” as the sixtieth vehicle that Tesla delivered to customers. “I