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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air

Union of Concerned Scientists

Though manufacturers largely didn’t adopt the necessary emissions control technology to meet the NO X requirement until 2010, the 2007 standard did require new technologies to be deployed, at an increased upfront cost. Source: ERM 2022 ). At least four separate studies took a look at whether or not there was an observable pre-buy.

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How Bad Ballot Design Can Impact Election Outcomes—And What We Can Do 

Union of Concerned Scientists

After clicking around, I found one on a non-government site and reviewed the list of contests and ballot measures. Nationally, since 2004, the evidence shows that the number of over- and undervotes averages about one percent.While that sounds low, a big problem is that certain districts have higher residual vote rates than others.

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Sorcery, Magic, and a Bit Of Alchemy? Creating Water

Acoel

One of the earliest attempts to regulate this area was The Weather Modification Policy Act (the “Act”), which was enacted in 1976 to address the interstate nature and broad environmental effects of weather modification technology. 490, 90 Stat. Attention on weather modification seems ripe for greater reflection.

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Luzerne County Native Dr. Kate Moran Honored For Ocean Science And Planet Sustainability Leadership By Canada

PA Environment Daily

I saw the importance of government help for recovery, and for alerts and warnings for natural disasters, and we didn’t really have any of that then.” It was a pretty impactful event for me, a lot of people were displaced for a long time, and it caused billions of dollars in damage,” she says. “I

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Federal Agency Recommends Updated Regulations for Pipeline Monitoring, Decommissioning, and Abandonment

The Energy Law Blog

On April 19, the United States Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released a report (the “Report”) in response to a request from the House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources regarding the oversight and decommissioning of pipelines in federal waters, which are mainly located within the Gulf of Mexico.

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US Nobel-prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg dies aged 88

Physics World

A year later, Weinberg became a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he carried out much of his pioneering work in unifying the weak and electromagnetic interaction. Unifying forces. In 1967, at the age of 34, Weinberg published his groundbreaking work. A ‘colossal’ loss.

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Homeownership Revisited: An Economist's Perspective

Environmental and Urban Economics

I greatly admire their work here but I want to be provocative and argue that their work is out of date due to technological change. Contractibility and asset ownership: On-board computers and governance in US trucking." 4 (2004): 1443-1479. I want to return to a paper by Baker, George P., and Thomas N.