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Nissan Bringing One-Off Vehicles to SEMA

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This year’s SEMA Show in Las Vegas is coming up fast, so you know there will be a rush of breathless PR about the rigs being hauled to the desert by manufacturers for this soirée. liter engine is under the hood, mated to a six-speed manual and breathing through a prototype stainless-steel Nismo exhaust. A turbocharged 2.0-liter

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UPS adds 48 more heavy-duty LNG tractor trucks to fleet; Westport HD System

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and Las Vegas, Nev., UPS currently bases its 11 LNG tractors in Ontario, from which they can make the round trip to Las Vegas on one tank of fuel. UPS is working closely with the DOE’s Clean Cities program to construct a LNG fueling station in Las Vegas. along with UPS’s 11 existing LNG tractors.

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Study estimates ~4M children worldwide develop asthma each year because of NO2 air pollution

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Although it is not yet clear which specific pollutant within the traffic-related air pollution mixture is the source of asthma development, reviews by the US Environmental Protection Agency and Health Canada suggest that a causal relationship is likely to exist between long-term nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) exposure and childhood asthma development.

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