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Tesla replays DOE loan nine years early

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This program was signed into law by President Bush in 2008 and then awarded under the Obama administration in the years that followed. The Department first offered loans to Tesla and other auto manufacturers in June 2009, when car companies couldn’t get other financing and many people questioned whether the industry would survive.

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Obama sets greenhouse gas emissions goal

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A reduction of its greenhouse gas emissions of 28 per cent by 2020 – that’s the goal outlined by President Barack Obama for the Federal Government. In October 2009, the President signed Executive Order 13514 on Federal Sustainability that sets measurable environmental performance goals for Federal agencies.

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Fiat purchasing US Treasury interest and rights in Chrysler for $575M

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Fiat also has an option to purchase 40% of the VEBA’s interest in Chrysler issued to the VEBA as of 10 June 10 2009, which option may be exercised from 1 July 2012 until 30 June 30, 2016, semi annually, in tranches not exceeding, for each exercise, 20% of the Covered Interest. billion advanced by the Obama administration.

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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His team entered its “Project Spread the Light: Provide Electricity in a Small Settlement” in the 2009 IEEE Presidents’ Change the World Project Competition, which was for students who had developed solutions to real-world problems. In 2018 he was in the inaugural cohort of the Obama Foundation ’s Leaders Africa program.

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Get Your Monkeywrenches Ready! Politicians Beg For Climate Change Wake Up Call

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on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 to unfurl a banner that challenges President Obama to show leadership on global warming. Obama is at the G8 meeting in Italy to discuss the global warming crisis with other world leaders. A federal prosecutor says a dozen people were taken into custody on Wednesday after the incident. House last month.

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

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So far, President Barack Obama has announced no new federaleffort to promote the fuel, and federal funding for hydrogen fortransportation use in the 2009 budget dropped to $177.7 Tax Credits Instead, Obama backed tax credits of as much as $7,500 inthe stimulus package approved in February for buyers of plug-incars. “We

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US launches new H2USA push for hydrogen vehicles

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Hydrogen fuel may have taken a backseat in favour of a slow battery electrification of vehicles, since the Obama administration took over from President Bush in 2009, but now the country is preparing to readdress this with the launch of the new H2USA programme. A public-private partnership, H2US[.]. Fuel Cells Hydrogen cars'