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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer. The fleets include two utility fleets, five cities and towns, three counties, ten private companies, two state fleets, ten school districts, and two universities. Total DOE award: $14,970,144. Total DOE award: $9,950,708.

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America’s lithium laws fail to keep pace with rapid development – ET Auto

Baua Electric

lithium operation – a small mine operated by Albemarle – has taxed minerals for more than 100 years, but at a rate based on each facility’s revenue. California, which has giant lithium reserves in its Salton Sea region east of Los Angeles, last year imposed a flat-rate tax for each metric ton of lithium.

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Your Greenius Earth Day Reality Check: Waiting For The Magic Bullet

Creative Greenius

You can go to events where you recycle your old paper tax records, your motor oil, your cellphone, computers and other electronics. . You can even watch NBC-Universal TV and see how they turned their logo green and laugh at their funny PSAs about cutting your energy use or carbon footprint. So what am I doing today for Earth Day 2012?

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Your Greenius Earth Day Reality Check: Waiting For The Magic Bullet

Creative Greenius

You can go to events where you recycle your old paper tax records, your motor oil, your cellphone, computers and other electronics. . You can even watch NBC-Universal TV and see how they turned their logo green and laugh at their funny PSAs about cutting your energy use or carbon footprint. So what am I doing today for Earth Day 2012?