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

Green Car Congress

The US added more than 280,000 new diesel passenger vehicles across the country in 2016, with Texas, California and Florida having the highest numbers of diesel vehicles, according to a Diesel Technology Forum analysis of the latest Vehicles in Operation (VIO) data compiled by IHS Automotive (December 2016).

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Rhode Island's Renewable Energy Goal a Beacon for Other States

Cars That Think

But watching this tiny state go about its policy business, analysts say, might show other states how to light their own ways into a renewable future. But Rhode Island plans to fill the gap with as much as 600 megawatts of new wind power. Its focus on renewables looks past New England’s largest source of carbon-free energy: fission.

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Backcountry Skiing Is Booming in the Northeast. But Can It Survive?

Baua Electric

Early last February, at the Mount Washington Backcountry Ski Festival in New Hampshire, the organizers faced an increasingly common problem: Terrible snow. Across New England, nonprofit organizations are attempting to tackle this issue by creating gladed ski zones. The conditions on Wildcat were “surprisingly good,” he said.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

The second copy set you gave us is a little light. Well let’s see, they want to do a million roofs by 2016 and they’re up to 70,000 now. People will turn their lights and quit bleeping reading! Well, I’d love to retire to along one of the rivers in New Hampshire where you have a cotton gin. That’s pitiful.

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