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GM to pay $35M fine for ignition switch defect recall timing

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GM will also pay additional civil penalties for failing to respond on time to the agency’s document demands during NHTSA’s investigation. The GM recall covers the 2005-2010 Chevrolet Cobalt, 2007-2010 Pontiac G5, 2003-2007 Saturn Ion, 2006-2011 Chevrolet HHR, 2006-2010 Pontiac Solstice and 2007-2010 Saturn Sky vehicles.

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USGS Study Finds Ice Shelves Retreating on Antarctic Peninsula

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The research is the first to document that every ice front in the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula has been retreating overall from 1947 to 2009, with the most dramatic changes occurring since 1990. Ice-front retreat in part of the southern Antarctic Peninsula from 1947 to 2009. Source: USGS. Click to enlarge. —Ferrigno et al.

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Radar Imaging Could Be the Key to Monitoring Climate Change

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The system is documenting changes taking place on Earth and facilitating the early detection of irreversible damage.” He founded the IEEE GRSS Germany Section in 2003 and served as the society’s 2010 president. Since 2005 he has been associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

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Satellite and GPS Measurements Show Ice Loss from Greenland Ice Sheet Spreading to Northwest Coast

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The research indicates the ice-loss acceleration began moving up the northwest coast of Greenland staring in late 2005. Our results show that the ice loss, which has been well documented over southern portions of Greenland, is now spreading up along the northwest coast ,”. inches, from October 2005 to August 2009.

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EPA Proposes to Streamline Approval Process for Fuel Conversion Systems

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MY 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and < useful life mileage. 3 EPA is proposing that the compliance notification process for intermediate age and outside useful life conversion would be an electronic submission of data and supporting documents. MY 2009, 2010, 2011 and < useful life mileage.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track.

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Despite this, a 2003 EPRI study , assuming only $2/gallon gas , zero buying incentives, and a PHEV premium of $3-$5,000 more than standard hybrids, shows that the total lifetime cost of ownership for a PHEV will be lower than that of any other vehicle type -- so the payback will be there. Power and Associates 2004 report ].

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