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Porsche launches carbon offset program in US

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Following its corporate fleets, PCNA will soon offer Porsche Impact to USA customers who want to reduce the CO 2 footprint of their internal-combustion engines. The two Experience Centers are popular destinations, with more than 335,000 visitors combined since opening in 2015 in Atlanta and 2016 in LA.

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ARPA-E awarding $9.4M to 4 projects focused on removing sulfur hexafluoride from US grid

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Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Ga.; and Toshiba International Corporation in Houston, Texas. Toshiba International Corporation. However, SF 6 is also an extremely potent greenhouse gas with 23,500 times the comparative Global Warming Potential of CO 2 and a lifetime of 3,200 years in the atmosphere.

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U.N.’s ITU Secretary-General Receives IEEE President’s Award

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Doreen Bogdan-Martin , secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union , was named the recipient of this year’s IEEE President’s Award. In addition she oversaw the organization’s membership, corporate communications, and external affairs departments. Bogdan-Martin is the first woman to head the ITU, a U.N.

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Rivian hires former Porsche exec Kjell Gruner as gross sales eminent

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The corporate’s accumulation worth is up just about 50 p.c Rivian stated that Gruner serves at the board of Livewire, an electrical bike producer, the German American Chamber of Trade of the Southern United States and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Trade. meeting plant and delivered 12,640.

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Hertz adds 2016 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid to rental fleet

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The Hertz Corporation, which includes the Hertz, Dollar and Thrifty brands, has expanded of its Green Traveler Collection car rental fleet to include the 2016 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid ( earlier post ) in select cities across the US.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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BASF, a German chemical manufacturer, has a somewhat similar corporate history and logo design to fellow thick-Helvetica enthusiast 3M. They were “homegrown” businesses—largely created within 3M and commercialized and built with the energy of many internal sponsors and champions. based on Pfluemer’s magnetic-tape invention.

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Ford sues Blue Pass Blue Safe in antitrust case over ‘astronomical’ benefit

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.” The allegations from Ford, using greater than 170,000 staff international, relate to a $2.7 Ford opted out of that agreement, now on attraction on the Atlanta-based eleventh U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals, to deliver to pursue its personal claims.

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