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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

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The door tag tells us that this car was assembled in St. Louis on November 7, 1963. The Mercury brand itself departed this world after 2011. Most accounts of the origin of the Montclair name state that it was derived from the name of the closest affluent town to Ford's Mahwah Assembly plant in New Jersey.

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APTA: public transportation ridership up 5% in first quarter 2012

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million more trips were taken than the first quarter of 2011. Louis, MO (8.2%). Public transportation ridership rose 5% to nearly 2.7 billion trips in the first quarter of 2012 over the first quarter of last year, according to a report by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). nationwide.

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Westinghouse and Ameren Missouri partner in pursuit of DOE funds to develop and license small modular reactor technology

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The Westinghouse AP1000 reactor is the only Generation III+ reactor to receive Design Certification from the US NRC, initially in 2006 and again in 2011. Its service area covers 63 counties and more than 500 towns, including the greater St. Louis area.

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Inorganic mercury converted to more toxic and bio-accumulative monomethylmercury in ocean waters, possibly by microbes

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Louis, Holger Hintelmann, Jane L. Kirk (2011) Methylation of inorganic mercury in polar marine waters. We’re 90 per cent sure that the methylation process is carried is carried out by microbial life forms in the ocean like algae. —Igor Lehnherr. The research was published earlier this month online in Nature Geoscience.

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Top 15 Nissan LEAF markets in US in 2013

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In Nashville, Nissan gives credit to a robust charging infrastructure and a core group of employee enthusiasts who raised awareness of the practicality of the vehicle in the market in 2011.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

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The scheme, which would be enforced by setting a ceiling for the amount of CO2 a car emits, will become operational in 2011. based in st. louis, wwt works closely. What weve got to get people used to is the idea that electric cars will become quite normal, quite usual," said Hoon. the it staffing industry.as