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Greenius On The Scene: Plug-In 2009

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Here’s a few shots from yesterday first full day of the Plug-In 2009 conference in Long Beach, California. I’ll be back there today for more Greenius coverage to be published later this week. The Creative Greenius with the new Nissan Leaf flat lithium ion battery.

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DEC and NYSERDA announce $24M in Volkswagen Settlement Funds to support electric transit buses in environmental justice communities

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Funding is available to replace existing diesel-powered transit buses with model year 2009 and older engines, which must be permanently removed from service and scrapped. As part of the state’s $127.7-million million allocation of the federal Volkswagen Settlement, NYSERDA will administer approximately $18.4

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Los Angeles Harbor Commission Launches 2009 Alternative Fuel Truck Incentive Program with $44.2M

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million in Port funding toward the 2009 Clean Truck Incentive Program at the Port of Los Angeles. The 2009 incentives will be used to help bring trucks into service at the Port that run on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), or lithium-ion battery electric power.

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Waste Management adds 1,000th truck to natural gas fleet

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property, the company commemorated the delivery of the 1,000 th natural gas vehicle with Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster starting up the new recycling truck that will serve Long Beach residents. Since November 2009, the landfill has been generating as much as 13,000 gallons of LNG per day.

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Foss Maritime to Add Second Hybrid Tug to SoCal Fleet; Retrofit Rather Than New Build

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Foss Maritime Company, builder and operator of a hybrid tugboat ( earlier post ), will add a second hybrid tug, a retrofit, to its Southern California fleet with the help of an air quality grant obtained by the Port of Long Beach. Richard Cameron, Director of Environmental Planning at the Port of Long Beach.

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Give Me A #BreakFreeLA & Then Give Me 100% Renewables RIGHT NOW

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in Long Beach and throughout the LA basin who are right over the fence from the refinery or the port operations or the the urban oil extraction and toxic chemicals that go with it. Joe Galliani has been the Organizer of South Bay Los Angeles 350 Climate Action Group since 2009.

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Annual American Lung Association report shows continued progress in air quality, but more to be done

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The 12 th annual release of the Lung Association’s report uses the most recent EPA data collected from 2007 through 2009 from official monitors for ozone and particle pollution, the two most widespread types of air pollution. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, Calif. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, Calif.