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Major spill from the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline in Arkansas

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Approximately 100 ExxonMobil employees are responding to the incident in addition to federal, state, and local resources. Principal producers of Wabasca include Cenovus Energy and Canadian Natural Resources. Efforts are being made to keep oil away from Lake Conway.

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Berkeley Lab releases 8th edition of databook on China’s energy and environment; finding the “missing” energy consumption

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The China Energy Group of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) recently released the eighth edition of the China Energy Databook —the most comprehensive publicly available resource known to exist covering China’s energy and environmental statistics. Click to enlarge.

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China BAK to Supply Li-ion Batteries for Electric Bus Project in China

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The 863 Program was launched in March 1986 by the PRC’ss central government as a national strategic development program to optimize and upgrade China’s hi-tech development in the key fields of IT, biology, energy, agriculture, pharmaceutical, new material, manufacturing and automation, as well as resource and environment.

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Tokyo Electric Power Licenses Aker Wade to Build Level III Fast Chargers

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Since 2006 it has tested more than 300 battery powered cars in the greater Tokyo area. Under TEPCO’s scheme, only the communication protocol and the connector are standard; the main circuits and component designs are dependent upon the EVSE (electric vehicle supply equipment) makers. Earlier post.).

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UK DfT Report Finds That While a Majority of the Public Still Thinks Individuals Should Limit Car Use to Benefit Environment, Support for Measures Drops

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The report for the Department for Transport is based on a survey module included in the Office for National Statistics’ Opinions (Omnibus) survey which has been carried out each August since 2006. Correspondingly, the proportion not trusting any source has increased significantly over time, from 6% in 2006 to 12% in 2009.