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Port of Los Angeles breaks ground on $137M railyard that will increase on-dock rail efficiency, reduce congestion and improve environment

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The Berth 200 railyard project also enables track space at the TraPac container terminal to serve as TraPac’s future on-dock rail facility. Construction of the rail project begins on the heels of completion of the Harry Bridges Boulevard Roadway Improvements, a $22-million project also built with federal stimulus dollars.

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Report: total investment of $8.1T in nature required over next 3 decades; tripling current investments needed by 2030

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The report urges governments, financial institutions and businesses to overcome this investment gap by placing nature at the heart of economic decision-making in the future. of projected economic stimulus spending. A total investment of $8.1 —“State of Finance for Nature”. Nature currently only accounts for 2.5%

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Mayor DiVirgilio: “Why Hermosa Beach is Going Carbon Neutral”

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Hermosa Beach Mayor, Michael DiVirgilio, has on Op Ed piece in today’s Daily Breeze on why he is leading his city to a carbon neutral future. Now is the time to use the stimulus, grant and foundation money available to those who lead before the map is even drawn.

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Exclusive Greenius Coverage of Today’s Clean Tech Roundtable

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The agenda included: Bob Foster, Mayor of Long Beach; Jeremy Snyder, General Manager of Tesla Motors; Steve Westly, Former State Controller, Bobby Shriver from the Santa Monica City Council, John Chiang, the California State Controller; Bill Locker, the California State Treasurer and the once and future Governor of California, Jerry Brown.

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OSU smart membrane could enable new category of high-energy, high-power energy storage for EVs

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A team at the Ohio State University has developed a membrane that regulates bi-directional ion transport across it as a function of its redox state and that could be used as a programmable smart membrane separator in future supercapacitors and redox flow batteries. Structure and function of a smart membrane separator. (A)

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CEC report sets out North American plan for change and investment to achieve sustainable freight transportation

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But, the report identifies clear opportunities, especially in light of infrastructure-related stimulus investment, to get this right. Without such a vision, and the transformational investments that go with it, GHG emissions from freight transportation will continue to increase and the NAFTA countries will risk losing their competitive edge.

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Greenius Goes All AB 811 Over Green Task Force

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SBESC's Marilyn Lyon talks about Federal Stimulus Funding / photo (c) Debra Bushweit Galliani. We also learned from Marilyn Lyon that Federal Stimulus money will be coming L.A. You need to make the environment the priority in Redondo Beach. More to come on these zero emission vehicles in another post.

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