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FTA awarding $55M to 10 projects deploying battery-electric and fuel-cell buses

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DTA provides approximately 3 million rides per year throughout St. Louis County in northeast Minnesota. The circulator serves the city’s central business district, the Uptown area and historic Oak Cliff neighborhoods. DTA will use these new, zero-emission electric buses to replace some of the oldest diesel buses in its fleet.

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Berkeley study finds clean vehicle rebates have predominantly benefited wealthy, white Californians

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Researchers Dana Rubin and Evelyne St-Louis, two recent graduates of the University of California, Berkeley’s master’s program in city and regional planning, analyzed 98,901 rebates issued to Californians buying or leasing low-emission vehicles from the inception of the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project in 2010 through March 2015.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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New vehicles to be deployed include 55 CNG vehicles, 363 propane vehicles, 89 hybrid electric vehicles, and 56 neighborhood electric vehicles. Louis, San Antonio/Austin, and Oklahoma City as well as a refueling corridor along I-10 in Louisiana (New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lake Charles). Total DOE award: $12,975,388.

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President Obama Outlines Vision and Plan for US High-Speed Passenger Rail System; $13B to Start

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Chicago Hub Network( Chicago, Milwaukee, Twin Cities, St. Louis, Kansas City, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Louisville). Joint 2006 study by the Center for Clean Air Policy and Center for Neighborhood Technology. Gulf Coast Corridor (Houston, New Orleans, Mobile, Birmingham, Atlanta).

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