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#EVmyValentine: Your Creative Odes to Electric Vehicles

Plug in America

Eliminating vehicle emissions results in improved air quality, which means better health outcomes and a slowing of climate change. Here are some of our staff’s favorite valentines, including one from Percy, our team’s new favorite pup. The fuel is cheap, The maintenance low, No emissions, It’s fast, not slow.

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

Green Car Congress

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 Increases in carbon dioxide concentration along with global surface temperatures are showing a decline in agricultural yields due to climate change. [

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. As Senators Graham, Kerry and Lieberman try to resuscitate the climate change bill by introducing a revised bill in mid-to-late April, twenty-three U.S. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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