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Enterprise Holdings acquiring IGO CarSharing in Chicago

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Established in 2002 as a pilot program of the Center for Neighborhood Technology, IGO was the first car-sharing program in Chicago and has been dedicated to creating an integrated multimodal transportation system for more than a decade. Enterprise first launched hourly rentals in Chicago in 2005.

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U Chicago, MIT study suggests ongoing use of fossil fuels absent new carbon taxes

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A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. Their analysis is published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

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China-based study concludes using political incentives to fight pollution is costly and inefficient

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—co-author Guojun He, research director at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago in China (EPIC China) and a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. —co-author Shaoda Wang, a postdoctoral scholar at EPIC and incoming assistant professor at the University of Chicago.

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Coulomb Technologies Secures $14M in Series B Funding

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Since 2007, Coulomb has been introducing networked charging stations for EVs since 2007. Cities worldwide including San Francisco, Houston, Amsterdam, Chicago, Nashville and Bochum, Germany, now have Coulomb’s charging stations installed for consumer and fleet use. also participated in the round.

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Exelon to provide financing for 21MW of Bloom Energy SOFC projects at 75 commercial facilities

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Constellation has been active in the distributed generation business since 2007 and will play a key role in the ongoing management of Exelon’s partnership with Bloom Energy. Headquartered in Chicago, Exelon does business in 48 states, the District of Columbia and Canada.

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TTI/INRIX study shows US traffic congestion back at pre-recession levels; average travel delay/commuter 2x that in 1982

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Of these roads, six are in Los Angeles, two are in New York and the remaining two are in Chicago. nationally) including Riverside, Houston, Los Angeles, San Jose, Boston and Chicago. That’s a new record, surpassing the 2007 peak just before the global financial crisis. Nine other cities have roads ranked among the 50 worst.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. Akhtar says some of the partners, including the Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh , are developing brain and spinal cord implants that could help patients control the prosthesis. MAKING PROSTHETIC LIMBS ACCESSIBLE.

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