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Google’s technology campaign for autonomous driving

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—Allen Taub, former GM VP, Global R&D. million people/year are killed in auto accidents globally. Levandowski showed a video of a narrow, winding CA road full of runners which they use for software development. We want to set expectations low but we want to encourage dialogue on how we want to move the technology forward.

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Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

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From a global climate change perspective, it does not matter where or from what source the reduction occurs: the effect on the atmospheric concentration of GHGs would be the same. Example: a regulated entity may purchase offsets generated through the development of a wind farm in a nation that has not established GHG emissions targets.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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These zoning decisions blow in whatever direction the development winds are gusting in the city at the moment and there is no consistency, logic or equity in the decisions made. I said I would consider it, but that I was really hoping to establish a precedent, legally speaking, beyond Torrance. I want it to be all of California.

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

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Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. The United States must reduce its global warming pollution emissions at least 80 percent below 2000 levels by 2050 to avoid some of the worst effects of global warming.

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