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BMW Group Launches car sharing service “ReachNow” in Seattle

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In addition to debuting the ReachNow car sharing service in Seattle, BMW Group Member of the Board Peter Schwarzenbauer also announced the establishment of ReachNow’s North American headquarters in the city and its plans to expand the service to three additional cities in 2016—with the intention of servicing 10 North American cities.

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Marathon acquires additional Eagle Ford Shale assets for $3.5B

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Marathon Oil Corporation has reached a definitive agreement with Hilcorp Resources Holdings, LP to purchase its assets in the core of the Eagle Ford shale formation in Texas in a transaction valued at $3.5 Potential to book up to 100 million boe of proved reserves by the end of 2011. —Clarence P. Cazalot Jr.,

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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In the winter of 1973, corporate managers summoned Whittingham to the company’s New York City offices to appear before a subcommittee of the Exxon board. “I Kuribayashi didn’t give many more details in his book, simply writing that by visiting Sony, he hoped to “confirm the battery technology.” But he found no takers.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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I said I would consider it, but that I was really hoping to establish a precedent, legally speaking, beyond Torrance. No, but I knew who they were and they wrote the books and they lived in L.A. You pay your corporate taxes on-line. Well let’s see, they want to do a million roofs by 2016 and they’re up to 70,000 now.

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Fakes: Not an Internet Thing, a Human Thing

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The Internet as a force multiplier of our preexisting tendency toward the fictional, and even the fanciful, is the essential thesis of Scheirer’s new book, A History of Fake Things on the Internet (Stanford Univ. And so, you find I talk a lot in the book about Greek pottery, which serves a similar function. Scheirer on.

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EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

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In August 2018, EPA and US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to adjust the Congressionally-mandated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards. Earlier post.). —Andrew Wheeler.

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

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Oge led the team that authored the 2010-2025 Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards, and described the process in her 2016 book, Driving the Future. What about the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards? California legally should be able to do their own standards under the Clean Air Act.

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