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US Public Transit Ridership in 2008 At Highest Level in 52 years; 10.7B Trips

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increase over the number of trips taken in 2007 on public transportation, while at the same time, vehicle miles traveled (VMT) declined by 3.6% The light rail system that started in November 2007 in Charlotte, NC showed the highest percentage of increase with an annual 862% increase. Americans took 10.7 This represents a 4.0%

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UPS Adopts Plan to Cut Its Airline Carbon Emissions An Additional 20% by 2020; Biofuels Part of the Plan

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The company’s air system includes international air hubs in Cologne, Germany; Taipei, Taiwan; Shanghai; Miami (to serve Latin America), an intra-Asia hub in the Philippines; and UPS Worldport, the Louisville, Ky., UPS started replacing 747-200s with the more fuel-efficient 747-400s aircraft in 2007. million metric tonnes in 2007.

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Volkswagen AG agrees to plead guilty and pay $4.3B in criminal and civil penalties; 6 execs and employees indicted

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2017, in Miami during a visit to the United States and appeared in federal court there on Monday. Jens Hadler: from May 2007 until March 2011, Hadler worked for VW as head of Engine Development for VW. This case has been assigned to US District Judge Sean F. Cox of the Eastern District of Michigan. Schmidt was arrested on 7 Jan.

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Study Provides Evidence That Low-Level Clouds Act as Positive Feedback to Climate Change

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a positive feedback), according to a new study of the NE Pacific by researchers from the University of Miami and UC San Diego. Low-level stratiform clouds—which play an important climatic role because of their net cooling effect on the global climate—appear to dissipate as the ocean warms, thereby enhancing the warming (i.e.,

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GM: Let's Hash Out Open Plug-In Car Standards

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a national standard was cut from the 2007 energy bill — lack teeth, for the most part (&# California’s is pretty strong&# ) and Pre… Cali Regulators Hail End of Startup Phase for Clean Energy Projects Artificial Moore’s Law for Cleantech: Renewable Standards, by Steps : [.]

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Humanoid Robots Are Getting to Work

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Ten years ago, at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trial event near Miami, I watched the most advanced humanoid robots ever built struggle their way through a scenario inspired by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. A team of experienced engineers controlled each robot, and overhead safety tethers kept them from falling over.

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BIRD Energy to invest $6.4M in Israel-US projects; biomass, fuel cells, natural gas, water-energy nexus and energy efficiency technologies

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Miami Beach, FL) will develop and demonstrate boosting EV charging through energy storage system. BIRD Energy began in 2009 as a result of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. —,US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette. The seven approved projects are: Chakratec Ltd. Lod, Israel) and Blink Charging Co.

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