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California ARB holding Advanced Clean Transit Advisory Committee meeting in Jan; at work on regulatory proposal

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The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has tentaively scheduled the first Advanced Clean Transit Advisory Committee meeting for 29 January 2016 in Sacramento.

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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. More than 1,000 miles and 1,500 hours have been accumulated on the ETHOS 2.8L The Cummins ETHOS 2.8L

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Best speakers ever

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He was pontificating on an all-electric composite Hypercar using rechargeable batteries back in 2000. An early advocate for green energy, he drove the car to Sacramento in 2003, stopping in Davis, California to charge overnight before testifying before the California Air Resources Board (CARB). He’s been way ahead of his time.”

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Environmental Charter High School Gets Solar; Greenius Goes EcoMedia

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The Pacific Coast Termite grant also funded an environmentally friendly XT-2000 Orange Oil termite treatment for the greenhouse. Plants in black tubes behind the ECHS Science teacher are being fed by aquaponic system in the new solar-powered greenhouse. Courtesy of CBS EcoMedia).

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Premium Power Distributed Energy Storage System Demonstration for National Grid and Sacramento Municipal Utility District. Demonstrate competitively-priced, multi-megawatt, long-duration advanced flow batteries for utility grid applications. 16,080,554.

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Rory Cooper’s Wheelchair Tech Makes the World More Accessible

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But Cooper hadn’t perfected the device when, after graduation in 1989, he joined California State University in Sacramento as a faculty member. The device became commercially available in 2000 and was used by the U.S. It worked for him: He received a bronze Paralympic medal in wheelchair racing in 1988.

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Toyota Concerned About Market Viability of Plug-ins, Sees Clear Path to Commercialization of Fuel Cell Technology in 2015

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O’Brien was speaking at the California Air Resources Board’s ZEV Technology Symposium in Sacramento, California. Toyota launched the Prius in June 2000, and for the first four years, the buyers were a small segment of innovators and early adopters. Michael O’Brien.

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