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UNECE adopts three new regulations to improve the safety and environmental performance of motor vehicles

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29 is a Working Party within the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s (UNECE) Inland Transport Committee; it manages three global agreements. Pole side impact tests exist today in Canada and the United States of America. Japan also introduced similar legislation in 2002(Act No. 87 of July 12, 2002).

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Final session on international mercury convention this week expected to culminate in agreement; UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 finds industrial source Hg emissions may be rising

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Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry. UNEP produced its first Global Mercury Assessment in 2002 and a subsequent study in 2007. These global percentages will, of course, vary on a regional basis. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge.

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Hanging with EVADC at the Green Fesitival in Washington, DC, 10-11 October 2009

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Also available for you to get the most of your Green Festival experience: Green Festival Bookstore and Author Signings – ASL Interpretation – Electronics Recycling All at a nearly zero-waste event! Green Festival is a joint project of Global Exchange and Green America. Since 2002.

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Study Finds That Plankton Blooms Do Not Send Atmospheric Carbon to the Deep Ocean; Weakens Iron Fertilization as Geo-Engineering Approach

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Iron Hypothesis adherents suggest global warming can be slowed or even reversed by fertilizing plankton with iron in regions that are iron-poor but rich in other nutrients like nitrogen, silicon, and phosphorus. Bishop and Wood report their results in a forthcoming issue of the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles. —Jim Bishop.

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Demonstration plant for small-scale offshore GTL on site at Petrobras refinery; production targeted for September

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Small-scale GTL facilities based on the use of microchannel reactors and designed for use on offshore platforms have the potential to turn unwanted associated gas into an energy asset and halt wasteful flaring or expensive re-injection. Earlier post.) It then will operate for approximately nine months. Offshore GTL. Earlier post.).

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

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An Argonne researcher reached consensus with researchers from other national labs, universities, the Air Resources Board, automakers, utilities and AD Little to estimate in July 2002 that PHEVs using nighttime power reduce greenhouse gases by 46 to 61 percent. About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Car-Makers Say.

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

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He started at CNET News in 2002, covering IT and Web development. America needs much smaller cars for many more people so that we can escape the clutches of the loathsome oil interests. America is too much into BIG. by romeinjim April 7, 2009 8:03 AM PDT Theres no problem in America with invention. E-mail Martin.

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