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Zipcar introduces Honda Fit EV into UC Davis West Village fleet

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Zipcar has introduced a 2014 Honda Fit battery electric vehicle (EV) at The University of California, Davis’ (UC Davis) West Village , the largest planned zero net energy community in the United States. Zipcar has had vehicles on campus at UC Davis since 2009.

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EPA Awards $3.6M in Grants for Particulate Matter Research

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The US Environmental Protection AGency (EPA) awarded $3.6 million in four grants to universities to research the relationship between the chemical composition of particulate matter (PM) and health effects. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C., University of California, Davis, Calif.,

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First federal enforcement of California’s Truck and Bus Regulation

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Thursday that Virginia-based Estes Express Lines will pay a $100,000 penalty for violations of the California Truck and Bus Regulation, for failing to install particulate filters on 73 of its heavy-duty diesel trucks (15% of its California fleet). Earlier post.).

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Study Finds Ozone Concentrations at Current Clean Air Standards Levels Can Impair Even Healthy Lungs

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Exposure to ozone at levels currently deemed safe by the NAAQS clean air standards can have a significant and negative effect on lung function, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis. Edward Schelegle, University of California, Davis. EPA Ground-Level Ozone website. 180: 265-272.

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Dr. James Liao Wins 2010 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Academic Award; Second 2010 Green Chemistry Award for Advanced Biofuels

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Dr. Liao, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), co-founder and board member of Easel Biotechnologies and a founder of Gevo, has developed a microbial technology to produce alcohols with 3-8 carbon atoms from CO 2. of the total US CO 2 emissions, the EPA said.

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BMW and UC Davis Partner on MINI E Study

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BMW of North America and the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) are partnering on a year-long field study to determine the viability of electric vehicles. Tom Turrentine, director of UC Davis’ PHEV Research Center.

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Best speakers ever

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Once held on the Stanford University campus, “The chapter had a rally course in downtown Palo Alto,” Pohorsky recalled. “It An early advocate for green energy, he drove the car to Sacramento in 2003, stopping in Davis, California to charge overnight before testifying before the California Air Resources Board (CARB).

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