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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

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Holt provided AC and DC voltage and current calibration instruments to all branches of the U.S. Holt supplied calibration and measurement systems used for NASA 's Apollo, Gemini, and Mercury programs, and the company's devices are still used today. The OCCHC builds apartments and homes in low-income neighborhoods.

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Stanford launches major new natural gas research initiative

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Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur. At times directly affecting residential neighborhoods, the large-scale industrial process has strained many US communities. —Mark Zoback, a professor of geophysics and NGI’s director. Earlier post.).

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