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EPA Grants California Vehicle GHG Regulations Waiver

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The US Environmental Agency (EPA) has granted California’s waiver request enabling the state to enforce its greenhouse gas emissions standards (Pavley I) for new motor vehicles, beginning with the current model year. mpg in 2016 (39 mpg for cars, 30 mpg for trucks), or approximately 250 grams CO 2 /mile. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.

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UMD-led study: road salts and other human sources are threatening world’s freshwater supplies

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Drilling down into data from targeted regions, they also uncovered a 30-year trend of increasing salinity in places such as the Passaic River in northern New Jersey and a 100-mile-plus stretch of the Potomac River that supplies drinking water to Washington, D.C. Likens, University of Connecticut. —co-author Gene E.

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