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UPS Adopts Plan to Cut Its Airline Carbon Emissions An Additional 20% by 2020; Biofuels Part of the Plan

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The company’s air system includes international air hubs in Cologne, Germany; Taipei, Taiwan; Shanghai; Miami (to serve Latin America), an intra-Asia hub in the Philippines; and UPS Worldport, the Louisville, Ky., customers rely on the transportation and logistics industry as part of their supply chains. million metric tonnes in 2007.

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Study Links Accelerating Uplift of Greenland to Accelerated Melting of Ice

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A study by a team of researchers from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami found that the acceleration of upward vertical motion of the rocky margins of Greenland indicates that accelerated ice loss in western Greenland started in the late 1990s. Yan Jiang, Timothy H.

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Car Charging Group acquires Blink-related charging assets of ECOtality; Access Control Group and Intertek buyers of other assets

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Nor does it include ETEC LABS, ECOtality’s research and testing resource for governments, automotive OEMs and utilities; this was acquired by Intertek Testing for $750,000. The transaction is anticipated to close shortly. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) The DOE had awarded about $115 million to ECOtality, of which about $96 million was paid.

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Can Software Save the World at a Profit?

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Collin Gutman is managing partner of SaaS Ventures , a venture capital fund based in Miami and Washington, D.C., The last two major high-level positions were the splitting off a CISO [Chief Information Security] officer from the office of the CTO, and the chief human resources officer splitting off a chief diversity officer.

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First $300M tranche of VW National ZEV investment targets charging infrastructure; 150kW+ fast charging on highway network

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Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. In aggregate, the Electrify America first cycle investment will aim to establish a network of approximately 2500+ non-proprietary chargers across 450+ individual stations.

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NREL study finds Class 8 hybrid trucks delivered 13.7% higher fuel economy than conventional diesels in comparable usage

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These evaluations are part of the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity, which conducts comprehensive, unbiased evaluations of advanced technology vehicles operating in fleets across the nation. Resources. Eaton hybrid system schematic. Click to enlarge. vs. 0.69), average speed (20.6 Walkowicz, M. Lammert, and P.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Researchers will develop systems for tagging CO 2 with carbon-14 at atmospheric level (1 part per trillion) and measuring the carbon-14 CO 2 levels. PEM is commercializing a carbon-14 field-ready analyzer with a sensitivity of approximately 1 part per million of fossil fuel-produced CO 2 in ambient air. PEM), Cambridge, Mass.

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