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

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The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced $55 million in grant selections through the Low or No Emission (Low-No) Vehicle program, which funds the development of transit buses and infrastructure that use advanced fuel technologies. Fifty-one projects in 39 states will receive a share of the funding.

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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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Zero Emission Freight Future. Louis Vehicle Electrification Rides for Seniors (SiLVERS). Cold-Weather Operation, Observation and Learning Electric Vehicles: COOL EVs. Clean Fuels Ohio. Denver Metro Clean Cities Coalition. Delivering Clean Air in Denver: Propane Trucks and Infrastructure in Mail Delivery Application.

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Inorganic mercury converted to more toxic and bio-accumulative monomethylmercury in ocean waters, possibly by microbes

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Clarkson noted that: Interferences from human-related Hg emissions within the biogeochemical cycle of Hg in natural waters have presented a complex environmental problem. Louis, Holger Hintelmann, Jane L. Clarkson (1991) Mercury and Monomethylmercury: Present and Future Concerns. Fitzgerald and Thomas W. Fitzgerald and Thomas W.

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Charging Station Reliability is Crucial as EVs Gain Speed

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The United Nations’ 2019 Emissions Gap Report forecasted that, at current rates, global emissions will be more than double what they should be by 2030. Greenhouse emissions are a major contributor to climate change and rising global temperatures, and gas-powered vehicles are a major source of these emissions.

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How To Make Sure EV Infrastructure Is Energy Efficient

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There’s also the question of emissions and the long-term environmental effects of driving. Not only that, but the fact that those emissions are concentrated in manufacturing and mining areas — not in our cities — further contributes to air quality improvements where people live and commute. Here, too, electric vehicles excel.

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Study links air pollution to increased emergency department visits for heart and lung disease

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cities including Atlanta, GA; Birmingham, AL; Dallas, TX; Pittsburgh, PA; St. While most past studies were conducted on a single-city level, this study looked at pollution across five cities: Atlanta, Birmingham, Dallas, Pittsburgh, and St. We estimated associations between twelve ambient air pollutants of both primary (e.g.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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s Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project. The project will result in the development of approximately 184 liquid propane Autogas refueling stations in the following major metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Denver, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Dallas, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Seattle, Orlando, San Diego, St.