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General Motors Kicks Off National Electric Vehicle Training Tour For First Responders

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General Motors will also issue an emergency response guide (ERG) for the Volt, and will make the guide available at its Service Technical College website’s first responder page. Tags: Electric (Battery) Plug-ins Safety. Additional workshops are planned for cities including Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.,

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The authors argued that the IPCC’s reference scenarios, which had been developed in the early 1990s as potential baselines which do not take emissions reductions into account, were no longer accurate. ºC in 2050, as compared to 2000 temperatures. ºC in 2020, and 2.3 Given that the previous 100 years saw warming of 0.5

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