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CicLaVia is Back This Sunday & We’ll Be Rolling Against Coal!

Creative Greenius

My favorite part of this next CicLaVia is t he Bike Parade coming from my friends at Greenpeace and Sierra Club which they’re calling ROLL AGAINST COAL. In case you didn’t know, the City of Los Angeles still gets 40% of its electricity from coal-fired power plants, the dirtiest polluters and greenhouse gassers on the planet.

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CicLaVia is Back This Sunday & We’ll Be Rolling Against Coal!

Creative Greenius

My favorite part of this next CicLaVia is t he Bike Parade coming from my friends at Greenpeace and Sierra Club which they’re calling ROLL AGAINST COAL. In case you didn’t know, the City of Los Angeles still gets 40% of its electricity from coal-fired power plants, the dirtiest polluters and greenhouse gassers on the planet.

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Serving My Country – My Patriotic Duty

Creative Greenius

And no one touches me more deeply when I hear him sing it then another great patriot who has devoted most of his life to selflessly working on the environment and justice issues I care about – Jackson Browne. . October 24, 2009 South Bay Los Angeles Climate Action, Manhattan Beach. The work I do is my patriotic duty.

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Researchers identify new nitrated PAH compounds from combustion that are hundreds of times more mutagenic than parent PAHs

Green Car Congress

PAHs form naturally as the result of almost any type of combustion, from a wood stove to an automobile engine, cigarette or a coal-fired power plant. This study found that the direct mutagenicity of the NPAHs with one nitrogen group can increase 6 to 432 times more than the parent compound. Staci Simonich.

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Greenpeace CSI – On the Scene of a Climate Crime Spree!

Creative Greenius

I’ve met and worked with some terrific people through Greenpeace Los Angeles and most of them were there last night. This global warming crime scene was quickly taped off by Greenpeace activists as a hostage negotiator attempted to make contact with the group. I’m very excited about our plans for the year ahead.

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USGS/BOEM study identifies method to differentiate between natural seepage and produced oils in waters off Southern California

Green Car Congress

The report— Biomarker Chemistry and Flux Quantification Methods for Natural Petroleum Seeps and Produced Oils, Offshore Southern California —covers a joint USGS and BOEM 10-year series of studies of natural oil seeps mainly from the Santa Barbara Channel west of Los Angeles, California.

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Developing standards for EV charging reliability

Charged EVs

Public EV charging sessions fail as much as 25% to 30% of the time, according to a group of industry stakeholders convened by SAE, and the reasons are not particularly well known. The group was very quick in pointing out this question of charging reliability. It’s a super-important area. that does that. ChargerHelp!

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