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Help! I Missed a Cruise and the Cruise Line’s Own Travel Insurance Won’t Pay.

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Our $7,657 cruise package included airfare from Atlanta to Barcelona, Spain, via Newark, and Norwegian’s own BookSafe Travel Protection Plan , which included travel insurance and also allowed me to “cancel for any reason” for a 75 percent credit. I feel I should at least get the 75 percent credit — otherwise what was the protection plan for?

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AI and Machine Learning Salaries Drop

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Dice released these numbers last month as part of its annual Tech Salary Report. These numbers do not consider cost of living, which generally gives Austin a significant edge, particularly if you want to buy a house). Overall, 2021 was a good year for tech professionals in the United States, with the average salary up 6.9

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh kWh average cost of electricity in the United States and globally. Atlanta: Oct 28, 2011. Resources. [ 1 ] [link] , [link]. [ 4 ] [link].

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Sustainable Weather Balloon Wins Student a $10,000 Scholarship

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The balloons aren’t environmentally friendly, though, in part because they’re made out of nonrecyclable materials such as latex. The cost of replacing them adds up. Amon Schumann, a senior at the Robert-Havemann-Gymnasium school, in Berlin, has invented eco-friendly, cost-effective solutions. Also, there’s a lot of waste.

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EPA proposes rule for nationwide 30% cut in GHG from existing power plants by 2030 relative to 2005

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Each state’s goal is different, because each state has a unique mix of emissions and power sources to plug in to each part of the formula. The EPA projects that the annual incremental compliance cost of the proposed Option 1 ranges from $5.4 The estimated cost of Option 2 is between $4.2 state compliance) to $7.4

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National Drive Electric Week extends EV access

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EVHybridNoire members at the Atlanta National Drive Electric Week event. With gas prices going up and the cost of electric cars coming down, there are real economic benefits to driving electric,” said April Bolduc, EAA President. The Trotwood event was just one of many where EVHybridNoire played a part.

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First results from HEI/ACES murine study find few biologic effects from exposure to exhaust from new technology diesel engines

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Their work was overseen by independent experts on the HEI ACES Oversight Committee, and its comprehensive description of all findings was then subjected to peer review by a separate expert ACES Review Panel who had had no part in the conduct of the study. Part 1 of the report describes the core inhalation study by Drs.

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