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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

With both population and consumption growing worldwide, the capacity of the world’s economy to require less energy for each unit of output has been a rare positive trend for the environment. Energy intensity is declining in many advanced economies, including the United States, Germany, and Japan.

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MARCH 11, 2023

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid.

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APRIL 21, 2010

s dynamically positioned, semisubmersible drilling unit Deepwater Horizon has left “a substantial majority” of the 126 crew aboard safe, but some crew members remain unaccounted for, according to the company. The Deepwater Horizon is a fifth-generation, Reading & Bates Falcon RBS-8D design rig built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in 2001.

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MAY 24, 2012

Moreno, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ. The Whiting Refinery has a refining capacity of approximately 405,000 barrels per day, and is the 6 th largest refinery in the United States. —Ignacia S.

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JANUARY 7, 2012

Black carbon is a key short-lived climate change forcer ( earlier post ) and motor vehicles are important sources of BC in the environment. A subsequent emission inventory for Asia estimated total BC emissions from on-road vehicles in this region alone to be 294 and 446 Gg in 2001 and 2006, respectively. Gg/y), and Canada (47.2

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

International collaboration, notably with the United States of America and the Kingdom of Denmark, as well as the innovative use of technology were used to collect the best data possible in this environment. 2001 Russian claim for the Lomonosov Ridge. —Canadian submission.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Assemblymember Chen represents Yorba Linda, La Habra, Rowland Heights, Diamond Bar, and includes parts of Chino Hills State Park. Brian Dahle – (916) 319-2001 – [link]. Phillip Chen – (916) 319-2055 – [link]. Low income and communities of color are and continue to be the most impacted by climate chaos.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

Taking legal action over the ZEV mandates would be a repeat of the late 1990s: automakers filed a federal lawsuit that led California to water down its ZEV requirements beginning in 2001, thus effectively ending most automakers electric vehicle (EV) programs for more than a decade. million tons. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

In 2000, IBM began selling M-Systems’ 8-MB storage devices in the United States under the less-than-memorable name DiskOnKey. In particular, Toshiba wanted an MP3 player , a compact and portable solid-state device that could copy music files from a computer, to which it would be connected via a USB plug, and then play the music back.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

The 2 ºC maximal warming limit was cited at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and revisited several decades later, in 1995, by the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Unweltveränderungen (WGBU), Germany’s national advisory council on climate change. The >2 Degree Target. Not the last two days.”.

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APRIL 18, 2014

LDVs accounted for 61% of all transportation energy consumption in the United States in 2012—8.4 Before the 2007 peak, travel behavior in the United States tracked closely with economic growth. million barrels of of oil equivalent per day—and represented nearly 10% of world petroleum liquids consumption.

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AUGUST 31, 2009

In 2001 she terminated our grass lawns and replaced them with drought tolerant plants because of her concerns for water use. I’ve been blogging on the environment since October of 2007. My wife, Debra, is a horticulturist and works at our local South Coast Botanic Garden. 2 PM PACIFIC TIME UPDATE FROM KPCC FM 89.3

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

The last official UNFCCC meeting prior to the 15 th Congress ended 6 November in Barcelona, and environment ministers have been shuttling in and out of Copenhagen since then to conduct ad hoc negotiations prior to the summit. That is what matters, and that matters to the whole world ” [ 7 ].

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NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Thirteen environmental groups working on clean transportation solutions sent a letter to the United States Postal Service (USPS) urging it to select plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) for the next generation of delivery vehicles (NGDV). Environment America. The USPS fleet travels more than 1.3 Electric Auto Association.

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APRIL 30, 2023

arranged a visit to a Semi-Automatic Ground Environment computer center. The SAGE system analyzed radar data, looking for Soviet bombers heading toward the United States. Once the dust had settled, Cerf sent an email to his old friend Eric Schmidt, who had been hired as CEO of Google in 2001. “Hi in Santa Monica, Calif.,

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AUGUST 21, 2022

60,000 amputations were performed) inaugurated the modern prosthetics era in the United States, thanks to federal funding and a wave of design patents filed by entrepreneurial prosthetists. In the United States alone, more than 2 million people live with limb loss, with 185,000 people receiving amputations every year.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

Most of the new vehicles have received special praise for their interiors, which has been a priority for GM since Bob Lutz assumed product design responsibilities in 2001. We got a bigger cross section from across the United States, a pretty good cross section of younger people. I think Caterpillar does a fantastic job.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2023

1984) modeled the entire United States, Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0 In retrospect, ESP feels like a predecessor to modern efforts to build “digital twins” to simulate and replicate real-world environments. But you’d have a sort of medium size, even small size, and between the data points you can do interpolation.”

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AUGUST 6, 2021

The football-field-sized array of pressurized modules, support girders, solar arrays, radiator panels, robotic arms, and other mechanisms was designed to operate in a weightless environment. By 2001-'02, the results were as Kranz and his colleagues had warned. His home page is www.jamesoberg.com.

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JULY 19, 2009

Yes, even these unfortunate dimwits can still save what’s left of their retirement funds while helping out the rest of us who weren’t fooled by the right wing, unabashed carbon pimps who ran things in the US government from 2000-2008 and did more damage to our environment than any government in history. The Big Dick Cheney Effect.

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MARCH 26, 2023

Starting around 2001, the compound semiconductor gallium nitride fomented a revolution in lighting that has been, by some measures, the fastest technology shift in human history. Globally, lighting accounts for about 20 percent of electricity use and 6 percent of carbon dioxide emissions, according to the United Nations Environment Program.

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Green Cars News

MAY 7, 2009

Singapore is well-positioned for the deployment of EVs due to our relative small size, urban environment, robust electrical grid and IT infrastructure,&# said Mr Lawrence Wong, Chief Executive, EMA. . “EV development is an exciting new area particularly relevant to the Singapore context. Energy Market Authority.

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MARCH 25, 2012

These results are based on Gallup’s annual Environment poll, conducted 8-11 March. Independents’ views are closer to those of Democrats, with 49% prioritizing the environment and 41% energy production. Click to enlarge. Gallup attributed the reduced gap in favor of conservation mostly to Republicans’ changing preferences.

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