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NYU review study suggests potential for gauging health risks of air pollution on individual level

Green Car Congress

Though other parallel projects may well be in planning elsewhere, we describe this initiative, which is currently being applied in New York City, as a pilot study for the method applied in a very large metropolitan area. —Caplin et al. billion a year.

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EVs and Fleet Electrification Are Reducing Noise Pollution

Clean Fleet Report

A 2024 University of Houston study found EVs reduced mortality rates and improved air quality in New York and other large metro areas. Fleets going electric will reduce neighborhood noise EVs also bring financial incentives through the federal tax credit. Another benefit of EVs is the power under the hood.

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A $275 Bus Ticket to the Hamptons

Baua Electric

Blade, the helicopter charter company, was founded 10 years ago as a way for commuters going between New York and the Hamptons to avoid vehicle traffic. This May it is introducing a new service, the Hamptons Streamliner, that, starting at $195 a ticket, will take passengers to destinations on eastern Long Island aboard … a bus.

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Sensor Networks Help Fight Floods and Noise Pollution

Cars That Think

A challenge for New York City's efforts to reduce the negative impacts of street-level flooding and noise pollution has been how to measure these issues effectively. This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. At that point, we realized we needed to collect that data ourselves."

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Beyond Pizza and Yale: What to See, Eat and Do in New Haven

Baua Electric

New front ribs. The museum’s four-year renovation not only refreshed the nearly 100-year-old building, but also included an overhaul of the fossil mounts that research has proved to be inaccurate. Now, New Haven — which was among The Times’s 52 Places to Go in 2023 — is going through a chapter driven by creativity and ingenuity.

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How to Prevent a Power Outage From Becoming a Crisis

Cars That Think

On 4 August 2020, a tropical storm knocked out power in many parts of New York City as well as neighboring counties and states. There are technical reasons that contributed to faster repairs in Manhattan, but in general the neighborhoods that waited the longest to have their power restored tended to be poorer and less white.

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

Cars That Think

He worked in managerial positions in New York, Ohio, and Virginia, then became AEP's chief executive in 1976 and served in that role until he retired in 1991. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in business administration by Indiana University in Bloomington. The OCCHC builds apartments and homes in low-income neighborhoods.

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