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UPS has rolled out 245 new compressed natural gas trucks in Colorado and California, boosting the company's green fleet to more than 1,900 vehicles worldwide.


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Tomorrow morning, General Motors will take a significant step in furthering the country's EV industry. It will start operations at the nation's first battery pack plant run by a U.S. automaker. The plant in Brownstown Township, MI will assemble the battery packs for the Chevy Volt.
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America's century-old love affair with the automobile may be coming to an end. The U.S. fleet has apparently peaked and started to decline. In 2009, the 14 million cars scrapped exceeded the 10 million new cars sold, shrinking the U.S. fleet by 4 million, or nearly 2% in one year.
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Darin Cosgrove has increased the fuel efficiency of his car by 15.1% by adding a homemade boat tail made from cardboard, aluminum and duct tape to the vehicle.
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B9 is now venturing into shipping industry with a carbon neutral cargo ship. At only 3,000 tons, this ship will be considerably smaller than a typical bulk freighter, which tends to be in the range of 15,000 to 30,000 tons. But, unlike a typical freighter, it will be carbon neutral. 60% of the ship's energy is to be provided by sails, the remaining 40% of the ship's energy will be provided by eng
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The LED traffic lights far more efficient than the incandescent bulbs that used, but snow and ice can be problematic. That's because the LED lights don't generate enough heat to melt snow and ice.
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The EPA is keeping up the fight regardless of what it may do to the economy. It looks like the guilt or maybe even the shame got to one of the employees of Calumite when he said he "would not continue to falsify environmental reports." The company that makes glass from slag a steel by-product says it is cooperating fully with the investigation but is still lacking in other areas such as dust coll
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The Denmark government plans to offer a minimum $40,000 tax break on each new electric car and free parking in downtown Copenhagen.
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Nissan plans to use an improved lithium battery in the new Leaf. The new battery can store about twice as much electricity as batteries with positive electrodes made only from manganese. Nissan estimates that the battery will cost about the same as today's conventional lithium batteries.
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"You're sitting on a huge ship filled with flammable liquid. You don't want somebody with a gun on top of that," said Roger Middleton a piracy expert at Chatham House. This could be the most environmentally devastating act of piracy ever. Imagine if it was used as a battering ram against an offshore oil platform.

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