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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District is replacing 48 trucks model year 1991-2003 with trucks powered by 2013 or newer model year engines. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is retrofitting 36 school buses with technologies to cut soot and reduce idling. Delaware and Virginia.

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Study Finds Regional Variations in Irrigation Practices Can Push Corn Ethanol Water Requirements 3x Higher Than Earlier Estimates; Need to Account for Regional Specifics in Mandates

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According to the survey conducted by the United States General Accounting Office (GAO) in 2003, 36 out of 47 states expect varied degrees of water shortages within the next decade. Chiu et al. Yi-Wen Chiu, Brian Walseth and Sangwon Suh (2009) Water Embodied in Bioethanol in the United States. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es8031067.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

South Coast Air Quality Management District #2 August 2006, by EnergyCS (Los Angeles County) State of Colorado Energy Office by Hybrids-Plus, Sept. Contact Toronto Atmospheric Fund Ontario Ministry of the Environment , Prius, Hymotion, August 2007 (Toronto, ON, Canada). 2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp.

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