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10-year study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease; accelerated plaque build-up in arteries

Green Car Congress

A major, decade-long study of thousands of Americans has now found that people living in areas with more outdoor pollution—even at lower levels common in the United States—accumulate deposits in the arteries that supply the heart faster than do people living in less polluted areas. The study is published in The Lancet.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

CalCars PRIUS+/Ron Gremban, Fall 2004 Ron Gremban, CalCars team; initially with EnergyCS technology (not used in redesigned conversion) Marin County, CA info@calcars.org 2. Luscious Garage , Prius+ conversion, EAA-PHEV , using Plug-In Supply s PbA system, January 2008, (San Francisco, CA). Please send it to webmaster@calcars.org.

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