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Regulatory & Legal Alerts – Dec. 2017

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Peopletrail actively tracks the regulatory and legal environment that surrounds employment and criminal background screening. Washington. In Spokane County, Washington, job applicants will no longer be asked to disclose criminal convictions from the past 10 years. California. Morgan Securities $1.25 Drug Testing.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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On 20 April, the opening day of the SAE 2009 World Congress, the AVL Technology Leadership Theater presented a forum on “Green Mobility—The Long View”. He works for Systemica, who has been contracted to design the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system for the citadel of Masdar. Washington, D.C.: by Bill Cooke. Still, Prof.

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A Child’s IQ Can Be Affected by Mother’s Exposure to PAHs Pollution in Urban Air

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It included children who were born to non-smoking black and Dominican-American women age 18 to 35 who resided in Washington Heights, Harlem or the South Bronx in New York. The mothers wore personal air monitors during pregnancy to measure exposure to PAHs and they responded to questionnaires. This finding is of concern.

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Ford Smart Mobility shifts from research to implementation; company announces new programs, next areas of focus

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The pilot is being offered to select Ford Credit customers in California—including Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco; as well as in Portland, Oregon; Chicago and Washington, D.C. In many cities, driving a personal vehicle from home to work is not feasible. It runs through November. Earlier post.). Multimodal mobility solutions.

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PARC building cleantech portfolio; co-extrusion printing of novel battery electrodes and carbon-neutral renewable liquid fuels from atmospheric CO2

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PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), the home of a long line of technology innovations, including laser printing, object-oriented programming, and personal workstations with graphical user interfaces (e.g., Energy Environ. Source: PARC, portions courtesy of Ameridia Corp. Click to enlarge. doi: 10.1039/C0EE00303D. Eisaman, D. Schwartz, S.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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Summer Update

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The list of supporters/partners now includes links to the members’ web sites along with a contact person. Afterward several members of Congress went outside for test drives in a plug-in hybrid brought to Washington by Cal-Cars. We also encourage you to watch the Bettah video produced by CalCars.