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PA Governor Wolf announces $8.5M from Volkswagen Settlement to reduce transportation pollution

Green Car Congress

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that 34 cleaner energy transportation projects will receive $8,489,844 in Driving PA Forward grants and rebates. The buses will operate on the 88 Penn route, linking downtown with East End neighborhoods. million settlement with Volkswagen. Camp Hebron, Inc.: Lackawanna and Fulton Counties.

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5 New Hotels Where the Past Meets the Present

Baua Electric

In addition to being near the river, you’re in the midst of all that the chic Recoleta neighborhood has to offer: French-inspired architecture, boutiques, galleries and tourist destinations such as the Recoleta Cemetery , where you can visit the tomb of the former first lady Eva Perón. You’ll hardly want to hole up in your room, though.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Is 381 miles by the shortest route and 420 miles if I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike. gallon gas tank—I can fill up either 40 miles from home or about 40 miles from my destination. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. And otherwise, it's a single shot.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Is 381 miles by the shortest route and 420 miles if I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike. gallon gas tank—I can fill up either 40 miles from home or about 40 miles from my destination. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. And otherwise, it's a single shot.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

Green Car Congress

Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood. The technology seeks to combine pyrolysis oil production, stabilization, and upgrading into one process, creating the potential to reduce the demand for imported oil and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by displacing fossil fuels with biofuels.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

As our climate change crisis worsens and spins out of control with each passing day there’s no time to spare for those of us whose job it is to educate and motivate our fellow citizens to actions that cut our greenhouse gas emissions. Or waiting for do-nothing local governments to do the right thing.

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