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Why Electric Buses Are the Healthy School Choice

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Vehicle fleets across the United States are transitioning from internal combustion engine (ICE) to electric vehicles, and that includes school bus fleets. One upcoming technology, Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G or VTG), may allow electric bus fleets to send electricity back to the utility grid during peak energy events. Ready to get started?

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Lancet Series Finds That Cutting Greenhouse Pollutants Will Have Major Direct Health Benefits Worldwide

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Carefully choosing how we reduce greenhouse gas emissions will have the added benefit of reducing global health inequities. Climate change due to emission of greenhouse gases from fossil fuel energy sources causes air pollution by increasing ground-level ozone and concentrations of fine particulate matter. —Kirk R.

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Climate Expert: Don't Call It Geoengineering

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In light of this situation, there's increasing talk of actions that governments can take beyond reducing greenhouse gas emissions—actions that could either remove existing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere or reduce the amount of sunlight coming into the atmosphere. Hardly the breakthroughs we need to stave off disaster.

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UN Review of Recent Climate Research Concludes That Impacts Of Climate Change Coming Faster Than Anticipated

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The report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), entitled Climate Change Science Compendium 2009 , highlights new research that identifies some events thought likely to occur in longer-term time horizons as already happening or set to happen far sooner than had previously been thought. Earlier post.).