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PA Governor Wolf announces $8.5M from Volkswagen Settlement to reduce transportation pollution

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Port Authority of Allegheny County: A $1,104,000 grant to replace two diesel transit buses with two new battery electric buses and install two charging stations. The buses will operate on the 88 Penn route, linking downtown with East End neighborhoods. Beaver County. Bucks County. Chargepoint, Inc.: Butler County. Centre County.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

Cars That Think

He was largely responsible for moving the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in 1978 from Philadelphia to San Francisco. He supervised the installation of the equipment by more than 150 cable systems in the United States. In his free time, he was a musician and a tinkerer. as an engineer.

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