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NYC Goes EV

Revenge of the Electric Car

Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? Imagine it is 2013 in New York City. Instead, while you recharge your battery after a long day at work, your new electric car could be recharging as well. Others, however, think the city should focus more in getting people out of cars altogether.

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A Child’s IQ Can Be Affected by Mother’s Exposure to PAHs Pollution in Urban Air

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PAHs are chemicals released into the air from the burning of coal, diesel, oil and gas, or other organic substances such as tobacco. The study found that children exposed to high levels of PAHs in New York City had full scale and verbal IQ scores that were 4.31 In urban areas motor vehicles are a major source of PAHs.

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Georgia Tech study finds MD electric urban delivery trucks have cost advantages over diesel in some conditions; relative benefits depend on numerous factors

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These medium-duty postal and parcel delivery trucks operate in an urban environment in which a significant portion of their trip time is spent idling, resulting in low fuel economy. Vehicles operated in states heavily dependent on coal for producing electricity showed higher emissions. MJ/t·km and 0.63 kgCO 2 e/t·km).

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

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Even less is understood about the potential risks to people and the environment—could the particles deplete the ozone layer, for example, or significantly alter the weather? record levels , mostly because of the coal, oil, and natural gas that gets burned for electricity, heat, and transportation. candidate in V.

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Is traffic pollution making our kids dumb?

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Prenatal exposure to environmental pollutants known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) which are released through the burning of fossil fuels, can adversely affect a child’s intelligence quotient or IQ, new research by the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) at the Mailman School of Public Health has revealed.

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We Are ALL Tongan

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The same sea level rise that will be coming to our Southern California beaches, to the bays of San Francisco, to New York City, to Miami, to the Gulf Coast states, has already arrived in Tonga and has already forced some of Tonga’s South Pacific neighbors to abandon their homeland of the past three centuries.

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

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Credit: GM) General Motors and Segway plan to take a two-wheel concept vehicle for a spin around New York City on Tuesday. The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities.

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