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Equity: More important than ever

Electric Auto Association

Endless studies on the impact of pollution and climate change on low-income families have all come up with the same general result: It is a very real and very serious problem. This is in addition to underserved population exposure to tailpipe pollution from high concentrations of car and truck traffic.

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NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

Green Car Congress

Emergent Polymer Sensing Technologies for Gulf Coast Water Quality Monitoring This collaboration between Mississippi and Alabama develops advanced polymer-based sensing technologies to detect pollutants in Gulf Coast aquatic ecosystems. University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water.

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

Green Car Congress

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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