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South Bay Bicycle Coalition Scores $240,000 Grant! Huge Grassroots Victory for Brand New Bike Group

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But it’s even better news for the health of our South Bay communities – not just for the obesity-fighting exercise that people on bicycles are going to be getting, but just as importantly, for the cleaner air we’re going to get to breathe thanks to people using pollution-free bicycle transportation instead of driving their cars.

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Study finds solo hybrid drivers in California HOV lanes amplify congestion, create up to $4,500 per car in adverse social costs annually

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However, two-thirds of the sticker registrants had hybrid cars already on the road, the authors noted; in other words, the stimulus effect was lower than expected. on weekdays to an already congested road such as Interstate 10 in the Los Angeles area appends $4,500 per car in annual costs (in pollution and time) to society.

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Cummins Westport Inc. and Cummins India Ltd. Receive Order for 460 Natural Gas Engines

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The Government of India unveiled a transport stimulus package on 3 February 2009 to provide central funding to purchase buses for urban transport systems. According to NGVAmerica, the New Delhi Natural Gas Vehicle Program has halved the air pollution in comparison to ten years ago.

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Southern California Governments Rejects Federal Ethanol Funding

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of Governments rejected $11 million in federal stimulus money targeted to build 55 ethanol fueling stations across Southern California, saying it had policy concerns about ethanol as an alternative to gasoline. Ethanol is not perfect, he said, but its wider use would reduce dependence on gasoline and remove pollutants from the air.He

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ITF study finds limited environmental and safety impacts of car fleet renewal schemes in US, France and Germany

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The report does not address the employment or stimulus-related impacts of fleet renewal schemes which are arguably their primary objectives. While scrappage schemes have the potential to deliver on objectives such as reducing pollutant emissions, these have not done so as well. standards and Euro-1 cars produced from 1992 to 1996.

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Next 10 report finds California must increase GHG reductions to 4.9%/year through 2030 to meet target

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The largest one-year emissions drop California has ever achieved was at the height of the Great Recession in 2009, when climate pollution fell 6.1%. Private sector investment can also drive green stimulus. Data from the report illustrate that California now must reduce emissions by an average of 4.9%

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US EPA to Award Up to $20M for Diesel Emission Reduction Projects

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will award up to $20 million through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (stimulus bill), and the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) for projects that can be commenced expeditiously and that reduce diesel emissions and maximize job creation and preservation through the use, development (..)

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