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News: 10 Best States To Own an EV

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What makes having an electric car a positive experience is not only financial aspects, but a functional ones, something the folks at Jerry have taken into account when they did the research behind their Top 10 list of the best states to own an EV. Down at the bottom of the list are: Alabama. California. Rhode Island. Connecticut.

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Deepwater Horizon Incident Declared Spill of National Significance; Attempts to Apply Dispersants at Source 1,500 Meters Below Surface

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Projections are that the oil slick will reach Louisiana shoreline areas today. The oil and gas blowing out of the well ignited, causing the platform to catch fire. The State of Louisiana is allowing shrimpers to start an early season to get ahead of oil impacts. IXTOC I: 3 Jun 1979 to 23 Mar 1980.

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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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The full list of projects selected for 2014 DERA funds: California. South Coast Air Quality Management District is replacing 11 on-road drayage trucks (model year 1991-1995), nine school buses with compressed natural gas (CNG), and one school bus with a battery-electric vehicle. Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. Massachusetts.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Genesis GV70 EV AWD

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The introduction of the all-new 2023 GV70 EV (or Electrified GV70 in Genesis talk to distinguish it from the gas-powered GV70) follows stablemates G80 EV and GV60 EV , giving the seven-year-old company a compact and midsize EV SUV, along with a midsize sedan powered only by electricity.

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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Louisiana State University. Center for Gas Separations Relevant to Clean Energy Technologies. $10. Design and synthesize new forms of matter with tailored properties for gas separations in applications including carbon capture and sequestration. Science of Precision Multifunctional Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage.

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CU-Boulder technique finds major class of fracking chemicals no more toxic than common household substances; “fingerprinting”

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Fracking fluid is largely composed of water and sand, but oil and gas companies also add a variety of other chemicals, including anti-bacterial agents, corrosion inhibitors and surfactants. The CU-Boulder research team identified the surfactants found in fracking fluid samples from Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Texas.

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

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They are looking at cutting the nation’s greenhouse gas output by targeting, in separate ways, three major sources of emissions: electric utilities, transportation and industry. states are already actively participating in the design and implementation of three regional cap-and-trade programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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