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US new light-duty diesel sales dropped slightly in 2016 to 280,000 units from 300,000 in 2015

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JUNE 7, 2017

smaller than the some 300,000 added to the US vehicle parc in 2015, but still demonstrated resilience in a market that had 25% fewer model choices available. Similar to 2015, California was number one in the total number of diesel cars and SUVs followed by Texas and Florida. The 2016 increase in diesel sales was about 6.7%

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PM2.5, O3 pollution associated with development of Alzheimer’s disease; new study identifies evolving axonal damage

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DECEMBER 23, 2018

A 2015 study found a 138% risk of increase of AD per increase of 4.34 ?g/m Exposures to concentrations of PM 2.5 and ozone at or above the current standards have been linked to neuroinflammation and high risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). g/m 3 in PM 2.5 g/m 3 in PM 2.5

Pollution

Pollution Ozone Mexico Montana

TransCanada re-applies for Keystone XL Presidential Permit; alternative Nebraska route not yet determined

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MAY 4, 2012

TransCanada Corporation has submitted a new Presidential Permit application to the US Department of State (DOS) for the Keystone XL Pipeline from the US/Canada border in Montana to Steele City, Nebraska. TransCanada expects to begin construction of Keystone XL in the first quarter of 2013, with completion slated for late 2014 or early 2015.

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Study warns on possible air pollution link to neuroinflammatory, Alzheimer and Parkinson’s pathologies in megacity children

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Children living in polluted megacities are at increased risk for brain inflammation and neurodegenerative changes, including Alzheimer or Parkinson’s disease, according to a study led by University of Montana Professor Dr. Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas and her colleagues. Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas et al.

Pollution

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Volkswagen and Varta Microbattery Ltd. to Collaborate on Next-Generation Li-ion Systems for Electric Drive Vehicles

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

VARTA Microbattery GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Montana Tech Components AG.

Li-ion

Li-ion NiMH Zinc Air Montana

Study finds children’s exposure to urban air pollution results in early hallmarks of Alzheimer’s

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FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas, Antonieta Mora-Tiscareño, Maricela Franco-Lira, Hongtu Zhu, Zhaohua Lu, Edelmira Solorio, Ricardo Torres-Jardón, Amedeo D’Angiulli (2015) “Decreases in Short Term Memory, IQ, and Altered Brain Metabolic Ratios in Urban Apolipoprotein ?4 The work is published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Pollution

Pollution Mexico Montana Ozone

Coulomb Racks Up Series of Charging Infrastructure Wins

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JUNE 7, 2009

The City of Amsterdam plans to deploy 200 charging stations before 2012, and expects the charging stations to fuel 10,000 electric cars in 2015. ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations are sold through EV Charge-America, a Coulomb Technologies’ distributor serving Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.

Las Vegas

Las Vegas Charging Belgium Montana

$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Plants need nitrogen to grow, and by 2015, more than 190.4 Peters, Montana State University; Jean-Michel Ane, University of Wisconsin Madison; Christopher Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Michael Udvardi, Samuel Roberts Nobel Foundation; Philip Poole and Giles Oldroyd, John Innes Centre. Team members are John W.

St. Louis

St. Louis Design Washington Universal

Harvard Kennedy School researcher forecasts sharp increase in world oil production capacity and risk of price collapse

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JUNE 27, 2012

The Bakken and Three Forks fields in North Dakota and Montana alone could become the equivalent of a Persian Gulf-producing country within the United States. million barrels per day and conceivably produce a total of 11.6 The Bakken formation’s output has grown from a few barrels in 2006 to 530,000 a day in December 2011.

Oil

Oil Oil-Sands Price Production

DOE selects 16 research projects for more than $19M in funding to advance Solid Oxide Fuel Cell technology

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JULY 14, 2015

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2015, NETL issued two funding opportunities announcements (FOAs) to support programs that enable the development and deployment of this energy technology. Montana State University. The projects selected under the two FOAs will receive funding through NETL’s Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Program.

Fuel

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US total VMT hits historic high in first half of year; VMT per capita trending upward, but below 2005 peak

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AUGUST 23, 2015

trillion miles in the first half of 2015, beating the previous record of 1.5 The June 2015 report also includes seasonally-adjusted data, which enable VMT comparisons with May or any other month in any year, from the USDOT’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The seasonally-adjusted vehicle miles traveled for June 2015 were 261.9

2005

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

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APRIL 10, 2010

states (Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) and four Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec). In 2015–expanded to emissions from residential, commercial, and other industrial combustion, and transportation fuels. In 2015–nearly 90% of emissions. Another six U.S.

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US new light-duty diesel sales dropped slightly in 2016 to 280,000 units from 300,000 in 2015

PM2.5, O3 pollution associated with development of Alzheimer’s disease; new study identifies evolving axonal damage

TransCanada re-applies for Keystone XL Presidential Permit; alternative Nebraska route not yet determined

Study warns on possible air pollution link to neuroinflammatory, Alzheimer and Parkinson’s pathologies in megacity children

Volkswagen and Varta Microbattery Ltd. to Collaborate on Next-Generation Li-ion Systems for Electric Drive Vehicles

Study finds children’s exposure to urban air pollution results in early hallmarks of Alzheimer’s

Coulomb Racks Up Series of Charging Infrastructure Wins

$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

Harvard Kennedy School researcher forecasts sharp increase in world oil production capacity and risk of price collapse

DOE selects 16 research projects for more than $19M in funding to advance Solid Oxide Fuel Cell technology

US total VMT hits historic high in first half of year; VMT per capita trending upward, but below 2005 peak

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

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