Archive for ‘car’
Oppose state greenhouse gas laws
February 10th, 2008
General Motors Corp. CEO Rick Wagoner urged a group of auto dealers Saturday to lobby against individual states trying to set their own limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
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Mud Flow in Java
January 30th, 2008
Mud… some people drive four-wheelers through it, some people use it to displace fifteen thousand people… it’s a versatile substance. In East Java a possibly man-made mud flow is creating an inland mud sea; at the University of Washington scientists spliced rabbit genes into a tree; and Enterprise Rent-A-Car tries to go green.
Popularity: 6%
Toyota beats GM in global production
January 28th, 2008
Toyota may have fallen short of General Motors in global vehicle sales last year, but it’s beaten its U.S. rival in another measure — global vehicle production. In the latest neck-and-neck numbers race between the world’s top two automakers, Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday it had made a record 9,497,754 vehicles worldwide in 2007, up 5.3 percent from the …
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Green Candidate?
January 24th, 2008
Obama gets voted Smogmaker of ’07 by DeSmogBlog, hot bodies warm building, and three wheeled autos. ZapRoot, helping you go green.
Popularity: 6%
Damaging din in Egypt
January 23rd, 2008
Cairo’s pollution goes beyond the ground and skies to the ears — honking, blaring music and traffic pushing noise to ever-higher decibel levels. Health workers are seeing the results — deafness and cardiovascular problems on the rise.
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Gadgets And Tips To Make Your Vehicle More Green
January 19th, 2008
Becoming more eco-friendly is a popular mission these days both for companies and for consumers and this weekend at the Women’s Expo you’ll find something you might not expect — a car expert
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Bushs asks for more oil to protect economy
January 18th, 2008
This week, President Bush called on oil-producing countries to put more oil on the world market. Bush met with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Tuesday, whose country holds the world’s largest oil supply. He warned that soaring oil prices could cause an economic slowdown in the U.S., and increased production would be helpful to American consumers. Bush persuaded Egypt’s president this …
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Clean Coal Greenwashing
January 17th, 2008
The AeroCivic gets 95mpg and will kill any chances you have of getting a girlfriend, go green with the EPA & Google Earth map pollution, and “Clean Coal” wants you to celebrate good times!
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Texas is biggest carbon polluter
January 17th, 2008
Everything’s big in Texas — big pickup trucks, big SUVs and the state’s big carbon footprint, too. Texans’ fondness for large, manly vehicles has helped make the Lone Star State the biggest carbon polluter in the nation.
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‘Green’ Cars on Display at Brussels Auto Show
January 16th, 2008
Concerns about global warming has prompted many car owners to consider vehicles which run on cleaner energy, forcing the automobile industry to react to keep up with these demands. Inside the Brussels motor show, these changes are obvious.
Popularity: 4%
US’s big trucks under scrutiny
January 15th, 2008
The latest big trucks are being showcased at the Detroit motor show, but they are now under scrutiny.
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Toyota battle turns electric
January 14th, 2008
Toyota Motor Corp likely to claim the title of world’s biggest automaker later this month from General Motors Corp Monday threw down the gauntlet to GM in a race for the next “green” car.
Popularity: 6%
Are Sports Cars’ Days Numbered?
January 14th, 2008
WSJ’s car critic Jeffrey Sabatini discusses Nissan’s new GTR, a classic sports car that bucks the growing trend among automakers to go green.
Popularity: 4%
High Court declines air safeguards case
January 14th, 2008
The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear industry complaints that the Environmental Protection Agency should have dropped some old clean air safeguards when it imposed a more stringent air quality standard for ozone.
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Harmarville Co. Gets Grant For Alternative Fuel
January 14th, 2008
A company in Harmarville received a grant to develop a more efficient way to develop fuel from alternative sources;
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