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Canada and California to work together on cleaner transportation

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Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and the Chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, today signed a new cooperation agreement to advance cleaner vehicles and fuels. The transportation sector is the source of nearly a quarter of Canada’s carbon emissions and more than 40% of California’s.

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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is retrofitting 36 school buses with technologies to cut soot and reduce idling. The Connecticut Maritime Foundation is repowering two Tier 0 marine propulsion engines in one ferry with Tier 3 engines. Louis Clean Cities is replacing six school busses. New Jersey and New York.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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State of Colorado Department of Transportation. The State of Colorado Department of Transportation will receive funding to purchase zero emission buses for the Town of Vail, Roaring Fork Transportation Authority, and the City of Boulder. Connecticut Department of Transportation. Connecticut Department of Transportation.

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$112.5M awarded to research consortia studying effects of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf of Mexico

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These teams will investigate the fate of petroleum in the environment; the impacts of the spill; and the development of new tools and technology for responding to future spills and improving mitigation and restoration. Project Title: Consortium for Advanced Research of Hydrocarbon Transport in the Environment (CARTHE). Rabalais, Ph.D.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Connecticut Department of Transportation, Connecticut: $7,000,000. Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Denver Regional Transportation District, Colorado: $770,000.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. NEL Hydrogen (Wallingford, Connecticut). Electric Grid OT Cybersecurity Dashboard for Control Room Environments, $600,000. Bunting-Dubois (Dubois, Pennsylvania).

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EV Charging Basics for Property Developers

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Offering state-of-the-art amenities to tenants and home buyers will also make the property more competitive by delivering a higher and more environment-friendly standard of living. Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Charge Ahead Colorado. Southern California Incentive Project. Sarasota County Program.