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EEA says industrial air pollution cost Europe up to €169 billion in 2009; some 37% attributed to CO2

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Air pollution from the 10,000 largest polluting facilities in Europe cost citizens between €102–169 billion (US$135–224 billion) in 2009, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) which analyzed the costs of harm to health and the environment caused by air pollution. Source: EEA. Click to enlarge.

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Groupe Renault and Nissan sign exclusive alliance deal with Waymo to explore driverless mobility services in France and Japan

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The agreement is designed to bring together the strengths of each party and expand expertise by assessing market opportunities, working together to research commercial, legal and regulatory issues related to driverless transportation-as-a-service offerings in France and Japan.

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An Engineer Who Keeps Meta’s AI infrastructure Humming

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They were always telling me how technology was going to be a game changer in the future, and how a career in engineering could open many doors,” she says. Contrera says she didn’t see a future for herself in the country, so she decided to leave for Europe. That gave me a lot of freedom to put my knowledge into practice.”

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Valeo acquires electric supercharger business from Controlled Power

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Our automotive customers wanted clarity about future plans for the VTES product and a sale to Valeo was the best solution to enable our VTES technology to reach its full potential. CPT was advised on the transaction by Turquoise International (corporate finance) and Matthew Arnold Baldwin (legal & tax). Earlier post.).

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BMW teams up with Baidu in autonomous driving project in China

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BMW is taking on this new engineering challenge because it believes that only with a complete command of all the technical fundamentals will it be possible to help clarify the legal issues surrounding highly automated driving. Baidu operates China’s largest search engine and is also a provider of map services and cloud services.

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California ARB rejects VW 2-liter diesel recall plan and issues Notice of Violation

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VW’s submitted recall plan for 2-liter diesel passenger vehicles sold in California between 2009 and 2015 which were sold with the software defeat devices. diesel vehicles manufactured for model year (MY) 2009 through MY 2015 to circumvent CARB and EPA emission test procedures. The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is rejecting.

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Study finds ride-sharing companies biggest contributors to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco

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A) 2009 conditions; (B) 2017 conditions. Ridesourcing is the preferred international standard, but we refer to TNC throughout this text because it is the legal term used in California, where this study was conducted. Their open-access study is published in the journal Science Advances.