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Five Important Points About the “SAFE Vehicle Rule”

Law Columbia

transportation sector in 2016 (based on EPA data ). EPA and DOT estimate that “upstream” carbon dioxide emissions from oil production, transportation, refining, and distribution would increase by 159 MMT (over the lifetime of the vehicles produced from MY1979 through MY 2029).

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In Chicago, Flooding Overwhelmingly Strikes Communities of Color

Circle of Blue

In the early 1970s, Chicago embarked on one of the region’s most ambitious and expensive infrastructure projects to date: the Tunnel and Reservoir Project or “Deep Tunnel,” a massive storage system that will be able to hold more than 20 billion gallons of water when it’s finished in 2029. . A Feat of Engineering or “Missed Opportunity”?

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Astro2020 Decadal Survey calls for ‘great observatory’ to succeed Hubble

Physics World

As well as LUVOIR and HabEx, two other large space-based missions were selected by NASA in 2016 to go forward into the Astro2020 process. The $1bn GMT will be located at Las Campanas in Chile’s Atacama Desert and is on-track for first light in 2029. The other is Origins – an infrared space telescope.