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Air Quality: Easy to Measure, Tough to Fix

Cars That Think

Portland, Ore., All outdoor activity in my neighborhood ceased for weeks, yet staying indoors didn't guarantee relief. Purifiers vary widely in the pollutants they claim to clean and how they claim to clean them. Harry Campbell. The summer of 2020 brought wildfire to. as it did to so many other cities across the world.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Each vehicle has a home location: a reserved parking space located on a street, driveway, or neighborhood parking lot in the member’s area, to which it must be returned at the end of the reservation. Ford SmartMobility/Chariot –Time for Spin? Bookmark this site and check back as we continue to update this list.

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President Obama Outlines Vision and Plan for US High-Speed Passenger Rail System; $13B to Start

Green Car Congress

Pacific Northwest Corridor (Eugene, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver BC). Northern New England Corridor (Boston, Montreal, Portland, Springfield, New Haven, Albany). Joint 2006 study by the Center for Clean Air Policy and Center for Neighborhood Technology. Keystone Corridor (Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh).

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore., If you just allow willy-nilly random charging, are we going to have neighborhood blackouts?”