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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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AC Transit, California (Hayward, headquarters in Oakland): $6,400,000. City of Santa Clarita, California: $4,620,000. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, California: $4,466,000. North County Transit District, California: $2,000,000. Broward County Transit, Florida: $2,000,000.

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Flow Rate Group Preliminary Best Estimate Puts Oil Flow from Deepwater BP Well Between 12,000 and 19,000 Barrels per Day; Obama Administration Extends Suspension of Offshore Drilling

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FRTG Members from academia and independent organizations appointed to date include: Omar Savas, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley; James Riley, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington; Juan Lasheras, Prof. Tags: Oil.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Waxman of California and Edward J. It covers ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont). California Air Resources Board, Climate Change Scoping Plan: A Framework for Change (2008). Representatives Henry A.

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