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EPA: US GHG emissions in 2017 down 0.3% from 2016

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from 2016, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory. The decrease in total greenhouse gas emissions between 2016 and 2017 was driven in part by a decrease in CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion. In 2017, total gross U.S. greenhouse gas emissions were 6,472.3

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Used Car of the Day: 2016 Ford Focus RS

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Today's used car of the day is a 2016 Ford Focus RS that calls to the boy racer in all of us. The head gasket has been replaced, and the owner has spare parts -- both OEM parts and parts for modifications. There are about 35K miles on the clock and this car has 18-inch wheels, Michelin tires, and a manual transmission.

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Used Car of the Day: 2016 Ford Focus RS

The Truth About Cars

The 2016 Ford Focus RS has been beloved around these parts for being fun to drive. Today we feature a low-mileage example out of the Pacific Northwest. There are 21,700 miles on the car, which has the standard wheels and a moonroof. There are winter tires on it right now -- and the winter wheels are a bit scuffed.

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Tesla's Elon Musk Tweets That He's Working On "Master Plan Part 3"

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Part Deux was published in 2016. Now, Musk says Part 3 is coming. CEO Elon Musk penned Tesla's original Master Plan in 2006.

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BASF investing €16M into tire pyrolysis oil company Pyrum as part of ChemCycling project

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BASF will uptake most of the pyrolysis oil and process it into new chemical products by using a mass balance approach as part of its ChemCycling project. Waste tires fall within the definition of post-consumer plastic waste according to DIN EN ISO 14021:2016-07.

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Tesla to present Elon Musk’s Master Plan Part 3 during Investor Day

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Details of Elon Musk’s Master Plan Part 3 will be discussed during Tesla’s upcoming Investor Day event on March 1, 2023. The CEO provided some hints about Master Plan Part 3’s general ideas, stating that it would be all about scaling Tesla’s operations to make it a global force and artificial intelligence.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk hints that he’s working on a “Master Plan Part 3”

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently revealed something extremely exciting: he is currently working on Master Plan, Part 3. Master Plan, Part 2 came ten years later, a time when the company was already producing the Model S and Model X. This does not mean to say that Elon Musk’s Master Plan, Part 3, would be ill-timed, however.

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