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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, California: $4,466,000. City of Charlotte/Charlotte Area Transit System, North Carolina: $3,000,000. The facility is used by the LRTA to store, fuel, maintain, and repair transportation vehicles (buses, vans, tow trucks etc.)

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Destination: Shohei Ohtani

Baua Electric

In a serendipitous bit of timing, the family will open Rokkatei’s first store in Southern California this summer. As a new baseball season dawns after Mr. Ohtani’s move from the Los Angeles Angels to the Dodgers this winter, travel stories like Mr. Oda’s will crop up all season long. It’s almost basic supply and demand.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Energy Storing Efficient HVAC, $595,558. Alumina Energy, LLC (Los Angeles, California). Electric Power Research Institute (Charlotte, North Carolina). Development of High-Quality, Very Large-Grained Cd(Se,Te) thin films for CdTe solar modules, $150,000. First Solar Inc. Santa Clara, California). Utilidata, Inc.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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May, 2007 : An international team of researchers concluded that the ability of the Southern Ocean to absorb carbon dioxide had slowed by about 15% per decade since 1981 ( earlier post ), and projected that at the present rate of deterioration, it will have lost two-thirds of its ability to store carbon by 2050.

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EV Chargers for All!

Cars That Think

There were two Level 2 charging stations about six blocks away in a grocery store parking lot, but that was not a convenient or reliable option. One EV charger maker, Atom Power located in Charlotte, N.C., Harry’s 200-unit condominium building in Minneapolis, Minn., has no EV chargers in its five-story indoor parking garage.