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Looking good inDEED!

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The Platinum Level sponsor this year is Wells Fargo , the Silver Level is Normal Now , and the Bronze Level is Edison International. Scheduled gatherings range from the Virgin Islands EV Association’s EV Rally in St. Community Partners include Climate Action Reserve , Forth , and Virginia Clean Cities.

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International study finds heat stress to Caribbean corals in 2005 worst on record, coral reefs suffered record losses

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The study appears in PLoS ONE , an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication. Collaborators from 22 countries report that more than 80% of surveyed corals bleached and more than 40% of the total surveyed died, making this the most severe bleaching event ever recorded in the basin. Croix, USVI in Oct.,

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IMO sets 2020 date for ships to comply with low sulfur fuel oil requirement; 5000 ppm

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The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the regulatory authority for international shipping, decided to implement a global sulfur cap of 0.50% m/m (mass/mass) (5,000 ppm) on fuel oil starting 1 January 2020 during its Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), meeting for its 70 th session in London.

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In the Caribbean, EVs leave ICE vehicles behind

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An EAA member sets the Virgin Islands example. Like nearly everyone else with an electric vehicle (EV) on Saint Thomas, Doug White, co-founder of Virgin Islands Electric Vehicle Association , drives a Nissan LEAF. From there, he turned to an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE)-to-electric conversion. “I