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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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City of Charlotte/Charlotte Area Transit System, North Carolina: $3,000,000. CATS’ fleet and financial plans call for the replacement 1998, 1999 and 2007 year diesel buses with new diesel buses in fiscal year 2012. Hybrid Buses: Upgrade a planned order of buses from diesel to hybrid technology.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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However, the slow pace of negotiations spurred UNFCCC delegates to publish a “roadmap to Copenhagen” in December 2007 at the 13 th Congress in Bali, in an effort to accelerate the progress of those negotiations. “ I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen ,” Chu said.

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Australia Reels From Split Weather System, Suffers Effect Of “The Big Dry” And “The Big Wet”

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Southern Cities See Record Temperatures, Little Water. Buckled train tracks and sagging power lines interrupted much of the city’s passenger train service, and residents were advised to conserve water. We’ve seen blackouts, disruptions to many of our transport systems, greater water consumption and of course, more sleepless nights.”

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

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Hourcar by Hymotion, August 2006 (Twin Cities, MN), contact info@hourcar.org Southern California Edison by EnergyCS, August 2006 (Los Angeles County) Manitoba Hydro by EnergyCS, August 2006, then converted by Hymotion, November 2007 (Winnipeg, Manitoba), contact jeinnes@hydro.mb.ca 2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp. Jim Tech Ltd.

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