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Electric vehicle charging stations worth a complete of quite $1.7 million

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million is coming to 26 government agencies, universities, and electric utilities in Louisiana. Volkswagen sold about 590,000 vehicles equipped with devices that defeated their pollution control features, leading to increased emissions of oxide. Xavier University, two light-duty chargers, one fast charger, $47,200.

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NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

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Lead organization. Montana State University. Murray State University. University of Southern Mississippi. University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. Jackson State University. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Description. Benjamin Poulter.

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Clean Cities Autogas Vehicle Conversion Program Rolls Out First of 1,189 LPG Cars in Virginia

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Administered by Virginia Clean Cities at James Madison University, the program will deploy nearly 1,200 propane Autogas vehicles, reducing air pollutants such as carbon monoxide, soot and smog-causing emissions when compared to traditional gasoline vehicles. Arlington, Va.-based

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Independent verification may be an auditing function, to assure the reality and accuracy of the carbon offset for markets (buyers and sellers), regulations (emitters and regulators), and reports (emitters and reporting organizations). Mr. Donovan drafted the “Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative” for the State of Louisiana.

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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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The surfactant chemicals found in samples of fracking fluid collected in five states were no more toxic than substances commonly found in homes, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. We found chemicals in the samples we were running that most of us are putting down our drains at home.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Renergie was formed for the initial purpose of raising capital to develop, construct, own and operate a decentralized network of ten modular-designed small advanced biofuel manufacturing facilities (SABMFs) in the parishes of the State of Louisiana which were devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. ]. Donovan, CEO of Renergie, Inc.

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

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Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION. In fact, despite the seemingly complex task of implementing a U.S.

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