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EPA announces $46M for latest Diesel Emissions Reduction Act funding

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of grant funding to implement projects which reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of older diesel engines. Virgin Islands) will accept applications requesting up to $2,500,000 in grant funds. Region 2 (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, U.S.

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EPA announces availability of $26M for projects to reduce diesel emissions from existing fleet

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the US’ existing fleet of diesel engines. Virgin Islands): EPA is requesting proposals between $500,000 and $1,800,000.

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EPA announces ~$44M in DERA funding to reduce emissions from diesel engines

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the availability of grant funding to implement projects aimed at reducing emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of older diesel engines. Since the first year of the DERA program in 2008, EPA has competitively awarded more than 790 grants and 420 rebates across the country.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

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Robot-suitable mechanical parts were hard to come by, but combat robot parts were more readily available due to their popularity on TV at the time. We were invited out to Hasbro corporate headquarters in Rhode Island to give a presentation to the engineering team about what we could do. Ted Larson at Hasbro HQ in Rhode Island.

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CMU/DAI study finds shutting down US nuclear plants would have significant negative economic and environmental consequences

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The team used NERC forced outage rates for coal and gas to determine available capacity and assumed all production was made up within each NERC region. The lost production was made up by increasing the output of non-nuclear power plants with extra capacity in order of marginal cost (cheapest first).

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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It covers ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont). The first auction for allowances was held on September 25, 2008. The WCI released a design document laying out its basic program parameters in September 2008.

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