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Lightning Systems all-electric medium-duty vehicles selected for State of California contract

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Fleets receive the voucher discount at the point of sale while HVIP-approved vendors and dealers process the required documentation. Since 2009, the program has helped more than 1,100 California fleets buy cleaner vehicles.

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Lightning Systems Gen 2 electric Ford Transit named in CARB executive order; new NMC batteries for longer range

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Fleets receive the voucher discount at the point of sale while HVIP-approved vendors and dealers process the required documentation. Since 2009, the program has helped more than 1,100 California fleets buy cleaner vehicles.

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NSF Awards RAPID Response Grant to Modular Genetics and University Collaborators to Develop Bio-Dispersants for Oil Spill Clean-Up

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The US National Science Foundation has awarded a one-year, $200,000 RAPID Response grant to synthetic biology company Modular Genetics , Inc. The National Science Foundation's RAPID Response grant appropriately highlights this unique ability of synthetic biology. In the paper, BIO cites Dr. P.

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EPA: GHG emissions standards for cars and light trucks should be revised; joint process with NHTSA (updated with more reactions)

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E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs): “Cleaner and more efficient vehicles means more jobs in innovative technologies and more dollars back in the pockets of small businesses and consumers. Nichols: “This is a politically motivated effort to weaken clean vehicle standards with no documentation, evidence or law to back up that decision.

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Dipping Into the World’s Most Stunning Hot Springs

Baua Electric

Several years ago, with the dream of making a book, I set out to learn and document how people around the world make use of thermal waters. The hot springs I visited in Nevada are the only purely wild hot springs in the book — the only bathing places without someone granting admission or monitoring the flow of visitors.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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The other goal, of course, is the system’s ultimate purpose: to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by channeling funds into cleaner technologies. One is to operate successfully as a market, with a steady supply of carbon offsets and varying prices to ensure that profits can be made.

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Octopus launches ‘Electric Dreams’ – An EV leasing company unlocking salary sacrifice for businesses

Drive EV

From launch, Octopus experts are available to help employees choose their cars and get set up with charge points and EV energy tariffs; as well as support the business with scheme documents, approvals and payroll. Additional government and council incentives including grants and waived congestion fees. Zero deposit or upfront costs.