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Connecticut selects Allison hybrid-equipped buses for new rapid transit system

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Connecticut has selected Allison Hybrid-equipped buses for the state’s new bus-only expressway system, CTfastrak. Scheduled to begin operations in late March, CTfastrak will provide a one-seat, no transfer ride to many major regional employers, shopping and healthcare destinations across central Connecticut.

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SolarCity introduces energy storage for businesses; Tesla battery technology

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The US experienced 679 major weather-related power outages between 2003 – 2012, including 7 of the 10 costliest storms in American history. —Peter Rive, SolarCity’s chief technology officer and chief operations officer. SolarCity points out that the utility grid is aging and outages are increasing.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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Peter Bao-Sen Luh Professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut Life Fellow, 71; died 28 November Luh was a professor of electrical and systems engineering at the University of Connecticut in Storrs from 1980 to 2020. He helped found the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering.

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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. is providing incentives to voluntarily replace 19 drayage trucks operating 1995-2003 engines. The full list of projects selected for 2014 DERA funds: California. North Carolina.

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Researchers link PM2.5 pollution to stroke-related narrowing of arteries

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The scientists analyzed medical test records for more than 300,000 people living in New York, New Jersey, or Connecticut. They are mostly by-products of combustion engines and burning wood. Strokes often result when accumulated plaque breaks off from a narrowed section of an internal carotid artery and blocks smaller vessels in the brain.

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NRDC-sponsored Shulock report says California ZEV regulations need a tune-up to meet 2025 goals

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He also served as project leader for the adoption of regulations pursuant to AB 1493, the California legislation that directed the Board to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles, and led the staff teams that prepared the 2001 and 2003 amendments to the Zero Emission Vehicle regulation. Background. Earlier post.).

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NOAA: Warmest Global Ocean Surface Temperatures on Record for July

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C), and tied with 2003 as the ninth-warmest July on record. Several other states were much above normal including: Maine which experienced its fifth wettest, and Vermont, New Hampshire, and Connecticut each recorded their sixth wettest month.

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