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EPA Grants California Vehicle GHG Regulations Waiver

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The US Environmental Agency (EPA) has granted California’s waiver request enabling the state to enforce its greenhouse gas emissions standards (Pavley I) for new motor vehicles, beginning with the current model year. These regulations were authorized by the 2002 legislation Assembly Bill 1493 (Pavley). EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.

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BuG ReMeDEE project seeks to use extremophile bacteria to convert methane to biofuels, biopolymers and electricity

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The project—Building Genome-to-Phenome Infrastructure for Regulating Methane in Deep and Extreme Environments ( BuG ReMeDEE )—was awarded a $6-million grant by the National Science Foundation in October 2017. This, the deepest mine in North America, began filling with water following its closure in 2002.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams was granted 27 U.S. After retiring from IBM in 2002, Williams volunteered at the Computer History Museum , in Mountain View, Calif. He was granted 15 patents. He managed several magnetic recording projects during his career. patents during his time at IBM.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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In 2002 Fraser retired and founded Fraser Research , in Princeton, N.J., He was granted 107 patents in Korea and 46 U.S. He was honored for his contributions with the 2017 IEEE Canada Presidents’ Make-a-Difference Award. Zahn, who was granted more than 20 U.S. where he continued his networking work.

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BIO Calls for Policies to Nurture BioBased Chemicals and Plastics Industry in US

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Employment in the plastics industry has followed a similar trend, with a 12% decrease since 2002. Total US employment in the chemicals industry declined by more than 20% in the last two decades, from more than 1 million in 1990 to just over 800,000 in 2009, and is projected to decrease further.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000. Henn Tan, shown here in 2017, fought a series of mostly losing battles against those who pirated Trek 2000’s ThumbDrive design and against rival patent claims. So it’s not surprising that overlapping and competing claims surround the origin of the thumb drive.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

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About Marc: Marc has been a long-time advocate of electric vehicles and drives a 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV, 2011 Th!nk About Joe: Joe has driven electric since 2017 with two BMWs: i3 REX and X5 40e. Writing a grant to fund the expansion of 15 Level 2 community chargers within the city of Las Cruces, New Mexico.