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A Child’s IQ Can Be Affected by Mother’s Exposure to PAHs Pollution in Urban Air

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The study found that children exposed to high levels of PAHs in New York City had full scale and verbal IQ scores that were 4.31 It included children who were born to non-smoking black and Dominican-American women age 18 to 35 who resided in Washington Heights, Harlem or the South Bronx in New York. Tags: Brief.

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NYC Goes EV

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Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? Imagine it is 2013 in New York City. Last week, the Obama administration announced new fuel economy standards for automobiles that provides some incentives for electric cars. by Lars Vercelli for the Gotham Gazette.

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NIST Awards $123M in 12 Recovery Act Grants for New Research Facilities; Univ. of Ky CAER to Expand Capacitor and Battery Manufacturing Research with its $11.8M Award

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for the new Measurement, Materials and Sustainable Environment Center (M2SEC). for a laboratory for advanced quantum science in the school’s new Physical Sciences Complex; $8.1 million to Columbia University (New York, NY) for an ultraclean geochemistry laboratory at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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The 2 ºC maximal warming limit was cited at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and revisited several decades later, in 1995, by the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Unweltveränderungen (WGBU), Germany’s national advisory council on climate change. The > 1.5 C or less, most prominently promoted by the 350.org

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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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Capital District Transportation Authority, New York: $3,520,000. New York City Transit Department of Subways, New York: $2,000,000. Material is being financed and procured through the New York Power Authority. Tags: Emissions Fleets Fuel Efficiency Policy Power Generation.

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Is traffic pollution making our kids dumb?

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Environmental Protection Agency found that children exposed to high levels of PAHs in New York City had full scale and verbal IQ scores that were 4.31 The study included children who were born to non-smoking Black and Dominican American women age 18 to 35 who resided in Washington Heights, Harlem or the South Bronx in New York.

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

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Policy (Update2) Share | Email | Print | A A A By Alan Ohnsman April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Honda Motor Co. , policy shifts to favor battery-powered autos. Policy Shift Fukui, 64, said in February that he’ll step down as Honda’spresident in June, and will be succeeded by Takanobu Ito. in New York Stock Exchangecomposite trading.

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