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The Obama administration on Tuesday approved California's long-standing bid to set its own tough standards for vehicle emissions, a decision in tune with a national plan to boost fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gases linked to climate change.

Nandini Chandrashekar, Bangalore, DH News Service:

Contrary to expectations, it is mostly a sigh of relief among the autorickshaw drivers at the State government

In a unique experiment, British scientists on Tuesday turned pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles into mobile wireless sensors to measure air and noise pollution.

Investing in sustainable transport reduces carbon dioxide emissions and helps mitigate the potential impacts of climate change. This publication details GEF

The electric bike (e-bike) segment has seen a rapid growth where the local governments have offered subsidies against the states that are charging a value added tax of 12 per cent
Disclosing this, Mr Sohinder Gill, the president of Society of Indian Electric Vehicle Manufacturers, said:

Goes for auto emission cuts from far behind in the race us president Barack Obama has set in motion a national policy that is expected to make cars and trucks in the country 30 per cent more fuel efficient by 2016. The policy is also expected to cut 900 million tonnes of greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions from vehicles between 2012 and 2016. This is equal to taking 177 million cars off

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There is increasing evidence that the amount of solar radiation incident at the Earth's surface is not stable over the years but undergoes significant decadal variations. Here I review the evidence for these changes, their magnitude, their possible causes, their representation in climate models, and their potential implications for climate change.

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Several factors lead to the collapse in December of earthen dikes supporting a coal ash landfill at a Tennessee power plant, an engineering consultant said.

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