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Study finds road conditions in US states worsening in important categories

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The state highway systems in New Jersey (50 th ), Alaska (49 th ), Rhode Island (48 th ), Hawaii (47 th ), Massachusetts (46 th ) and New York (45 th ) rank at the bottom of the nation in overall performance and cost-effectiveness. Missouri, Maine and Kentucky round out the top five states.

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Cummins ETHOS 2.8L optimized E-85 engine demonstrates 50-80% reduction in CO2 emissions in medium-duty truck

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A final on-road validation testing phase has been underway in the Sacramento, California, area since June and continuing into this month, and is being managed by Cummins Pacific, the exclusive California and Hawaii distributor for Cummins Inc. The Cummins ETHOS 2.8L

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Six refineries in $425M settlement with EPA and DOJ over emissions violations

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and Par Hawaii Refining that resolves alleged Clean Air Act violations and protects public health by reducing air pollution at six refineries. million civil penalty that Tesoro will pay, the United States will receive $8,050,000, and co-plaintiffs including the states of Alaska and Hawaii, and the Northwest Clean Air Agency will share $2.4

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Constant Ratio Of Airborne To Absorbed CO2 In Carbon Cycle May Indicate Resilient Carbon Sinks

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average of Mauna Loa (Hawaii) and the South Pole (thin solid line), and two ice cores: Law Dome (dashed thin line) and Siple (dotted thin. Estimated carbon emissions and uptake, 1850-2000, including the Earth’s as yet unidentified carbon sink. fraction (thick dashed line). Thinner lines represent observed. Click to enlarge.

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Study projects net cooling of climate from ship emissions through 2050

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Prior work on the overall RF (including the highly uncertain indirect aerosol effect) of shipping in 2000 from preindustrial suggested that shipping has a net cooling impact today. —Lud et al.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Soon Mazor, then a research engineer at Intel, joined him, and the two pursued Hoff’s ideas, developing a simple instruction set that could be implemented with about 2000 transistors. The Intel marketing department they estimated that sales [of microprocessors] might total only 2000 chips a year. You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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