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Production of 100th GILLIG battery-electric bus

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GILLIG established best practices and validated many of the technologies used in today’s electric buses through the generations of diesel-electric hybrid and overhead trolley electric buses built to date and its first-generation fuel cell buses, which were deployed in 2001.

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Berkeley Lab releases 8th edition of databook on China’s energy and environment; finding the “missing” energy consumption

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We have gathered statistical information on energy and energy demand drivers from all different resources, such as the China Environment Yearbook , the Transportation Yearbook , the Power Yearbook , the Iron and Steel Yearbook , the Cement Almanac , statistics of oil companies and power companies. The first four editions were paper-based.

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Global study shows uneven urbanization among large cities in the last two decades

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The country had undergone the biggest urban expansion in the period, between 2001 and 2018, its BUA increase accounted for 47.5% Due to the rapid economic growth in the study period, China invested a large amount of resources into infrastructure construction for advancing the urban living environment.

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Irradiating the Mail: The Anthrax Attacks of 2001

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Anthrax is caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, the spores of which can remain inactive for decades until they find a favorable environment to germinate, such as blood or tissue. the letter pictured below, which was sent to the National Postal Museum dated 1 December 2001. E-beams and X-rays stopped the spread of anthrax spores.

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Air pollution regulations over last decade in Chinese city has halved health costs

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Results appear in an open access paper in the journal Environment International. As a result, concentrations of particulate matter (PM 10 ) declined by more than half, from 196 µg/m 3 in 2001 to 89 µg/m 3 in 2010, as measured at eight sites throughout the city. The cost of premature death due to air pollution decreased by 3.83

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JOGMEC confirms first offshore production of methane from methane hydrates

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Valuable data, including the dissociation behavior of methane hydrate under the sea floor, impact to the surrounding environment, and so on, will be obtained through the testing. Japan initiated its Methane Hydrate R&D Program in 2001, beginning seismic surveys and exploitation drillings in the eastern Nankai trough.

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U-M and Shanghai Jiao Tong University fund 6 energy and biomedical projects; batteries, policy and fuels

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The energy projects chosen seek to improve electric vehicle batteries, to model the impact of renewable energy policy on the economy and the environment, and to better understand the combustion biodiesel fuels. Integrated energy-economy-environment (3E) modeling for clean vehicle development in China.

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