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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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Broward County Transit, Florida: $2,000,000. Palm Tran, Florida: $320,000. These projects improve the working environment, conserve energy, reduce operating/maintenance costs and reduce GHG emissions for a ten-year lifecycle. Tags: Emissions Fleets Fuel Efficiency Policy Power Generation.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

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Cornell Tweet This Post Tags: BMW , electric vehicles , Fiat , Ford , General Motors , plug-in , Toyota , Volkswagen You might also like: 9 Electric Cars 100 Years Old or More The Chinese BYD F3DM, First Mass Produced Electric Car, Fails with Consumers GM Ditches Volt for Geo Metro Hybrid? About Gas 2.0 on It’s On!

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MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

My Web Technorati Windows Live Blogmarks Propeller Mixx E-mail It To Addresses (up to 3): Your Name: Your Address: Tags: evdriven. . “My guess is that there are more materials like this out there,&# he says. Sign Up for the Green Options Newsletter Follow us on Twitter Subscribe via email Resources Write for Gas 2.0 About Gas 2.0

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

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I continue to be an aspiring policy wonk on the solar financing issue known around the state as AB 811 financing, since we need it if we’re going to make it possible for people to install solar right now, instead of waiting till electric rates triple and the greenhouse gas situation makes it mandatory.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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During the 4 th COP, developed nations began to emphasize the issue of the lack of enabling environments as a barrier to technology transfer. Technology transfer funding needs to address not only the technologies themselves, but also potential policy barriers to the growth of recipient firms. Asian Development Bank. Earlier post.)

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

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The marginal costs of reducing (or abating) emissions depend on technological, behavioral, and policy-related factors. This use of allowance value resembles using allowance value to compensate households for adverse impacts of climate policy. HOW TO ESTABLISH A SUCCESSFUL REGIONAL. GREENHOUSE GAS CAP-AND-TRADE PROGRAM.

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