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USDOT FTA announces $182M in Low-No grants for transit vehicles & facilities nationwide

Green Car Congress

The electric buses will replace CTA’s oldest diesel buses and reduce greenhouse gases in communities that have experienced air pollution and other environmental health hazards, improving public health and quality of life. By retrofitting the garage to service electric buses, the agency will also lower pollution in the surrounding community.

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Study Finds Crop Residue Removal for Biofuels Adversely Impact Soil and Environment; Dedicated Energy Crops Can Provide Benefits

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Available data indicate that herbaceous and woody plants can improve soil characteristics, reduce soil water and wind erosion, filter pollutants in runoff, sequester soil organic carbon, reduce net emissions of greenhouse gases, and improve wildlife habitat and diversity. Agron J 102:403-419 doi: 10.2134/agronj2009.0333.

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Ford develops and begins manufacturing new powered respirator; expanding other COVID-19 efforts

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Approximately 30 UAW paid volunteers will start making masks in the plant’s ISO Class 8 cleanroom, which is a controlled environment with extremely low levels of pollutants, enabling the safe production of face masks for medical use. Production began earlier this week.

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10 Reasons Your Next Car Should Be an EV

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EVs are Better for the Environment Over the course of their lifetimes , EVs generate less than half of the GHG emissions of comparable gasoline-powered vehicles. EVs Improve Public Health Transportation emissions are the leading source of air pollution in the U.S. In addition, electricity in the U.S.

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What Is Hyperloop? And What Does It Offer?

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Hyperloop enthusiasts say that Hyperloop might be less expensive and faster than train or car travel, as well as less expensive and less polluting than air travel. Potential routes include New York-Washington DC, Pune-Mumbai, Kansas City-St. Hyperloop: What Are The Advantages? Is it really a novel idea? Let’s inspect.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

Fleet Orders · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources – 1,800 · City of Chicago - 850 vehicles · Shohomish County, WA - 300 · City of Seattle - 410 · Kansas City, MO - 120 · Capital Metro (Transit agency in Austin) - 165 · ABC Lawn and Pest Control (Austin) - 150 Cities Cities continue to join the Plug-In Partners coalition. Keene, N.H.,

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

By the way Boones plan covers: Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota. Boone Pickens plan, which states that using all the wind power capacity from northern Texas to the Canadian border would produce AS MUCH AS 20%. He states this as a positive of his program. Sounds like a perfect way to dump a TRILLION.

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