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NOAA: US Experienced Above-Normal Temperatures and Below-Normal Precipitation in April

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C) above the long-term (1901-2000) average (14 th warmest April on record). cm) below the 1901-2000 average. Conversely, Florida had its coolest, while South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas’ average temperature ranked among their 10 coolest. C), which is 2.3 °F April’s average precipitation was 2.18

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UPS plans to build 9 additional LNG stations at cost of ~$50M

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The expansion will include on-site fueling stations in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. Between 2000 and the end of 2012, the UPS alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet logged 295 million miles. Currently, UPS operates LNG tractors in Las Vegas, Nev., Phoenix, Ariz.,

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NOAA: Average US Temperature in September 1 F Above 20th Century Average

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inches (63 mm), exactly the 1901-2000 average. Arkansas registered its second wettest September, Tennessee its fifth, with Mississippi and Alabama posting their sixth wettest on record. During September, 5,535 fires burned approximately 378,523 acres—both were below the 2000-2009 average for the month. C) was 1.0 °F

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UNEP Report Calls for More Sophisticated Approach to Developing Biofuels; Limitations of Current LCA Studies

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World ethanol production for transport fuel tripled between 2000 and 2007 from 17 billion to more than 52 billion liters (13.7 There is an obvious link between environmental impacts estimated by life-cycle impact assessments and water quality problems described at the regional scale. World Transport Biofuel Production.

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John Brooks Slaughter: Courageous Advocate for Diversity in STEM

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I visited schools in Mississippi, North Carolina, and Georgia, and I established relationships with some of the scientists at Howard University ,” an HBCU in Washington, D.C. By 2010, he was feeling the call to rejoin the classroom, so he returned to USC to teach courses on leadership, diversity, and technological literacy.