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EPA SmartWay honors 44 freight carriers for exceptional supply chain efficiency

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EPA announced the awardees at the 2016 American Trucking Association’s Annual Management Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mercury Services, Inc. Awardees represent the top one to two percent of environmentally-responsible SmartWay carriers that conduct freight operations with lower emissions and less energy.

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

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White was the first American chair of the International Conference on Large High-Voltage Electric Systems. Holt supplied calibration and measurement systems used for NASA 's Apollo, Gemini, and Mercury programs, and the company's devices are still used today. It also was a leader in measurement instruments.

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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

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Eventually the linings [of devices] break, and when they're rained upon, the very toxic materials [they contain] — mercury, lead, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium — come out. Sadly, it could also be sent to a country where they don't have the right tools or expertise to dismantle old electronics.

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DOE, RTI to Design and Build Coal Syngas Cleanup System for IGCC Power Plants to Reduce Cost of Removing Contaminants, Capturing CO2; Potential for Synthetic Chemicals and Fuels

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The 50-MWe system will include technologies to remove trace elements such as mercury and arsenic, capture the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), and extract more than 99.9% Status of RTI/Eastman Warm Gas Clean-up Technology and Commercialization Plan (Gasification Technologies Conference, 2008). of the sulfur from the syngas.

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With this Ruby Laser, George Porter Sped up Photochemistry

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At a science conference in September 1947, the prominent chemist Harry Melville stated that specimens with lifetimes of less than a millisecond were far beyond direct physical measurement. At the time, chemists barely used the word millisecond. Porter and Norrish were about to prove him wrong.

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July/August '06 - Activists Promote the Film, Ford Retreats on Hybrids

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Ford about-face on hybrids a slap in the face to Big Enviro While consumers may be awakening to the need for plug-in cars and government conferences on the subject multiply, the automakers continue to send very mixed signals.

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US Coast Guard evaluating diesel outboards; final report due June 2018

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Three engines—Mercury Marine’s 175HP spark-ignited diesel engine and the OXE 200HP and Cox Powertrain 300HP compression-ignited diesel engines—will be tested through Cooperative Research and Development Agreements, CRADA, with industry.

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