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Project aims to track big city carbon footprints
Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward. Halfway around the globe, similar contraptions atop the Eiffel Tower and elsewhere around Paris keep a pulse on emissions from smokestacks ...
Project aims to track big city carbon footprints
Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward. Halfway around the globe, similar contraptions atop the Eiffel Tower and elsewhere around Paris keep a pulse on emissions from smokestacks ...
AP IMPACT: Cars made in Brazil are deadly
The cars roll endlessly off the local assembly lines of the industry's biggest automakers, more than 10,000 a day, into the eager hands of Brazil's new middle class. The shiny new Fords, Fiats, and Chevrolets tell the tale of an economy in full bloom that now boasts the fourth largest ...
Storied Lincoln Highway marks 100th birthday
Rosemary Rubin talks romantically about the Lincoln Highway — the country's first transcontinental road. The nostalgia. The memories. The original brick remnants. The way the road can work as a time machine into the past. That's why Rubin and her husband, Bob Lichty, have headed the planning of the 2013 ...
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Police: Trenton hostage situation resolved, 3 children safe TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A standoff with an armed man who took multiple hostages inside a Trenton home has ended and three children are safe, police said early Sunday. Word of the confrontation's conclusion came a short while after the standoff, which ...
Chrysler recalls almost 470,000 Jeep SUVs
Chrysler is recalling 469,000 Jeep SUVs worldwide because they can shift into neutral without warning on startup. The recall affects 2005 to 2010 Grand Cherokees and 2006 to 2010 Commanders. U.S. safety regulators say cracks in a circuit board can cause a faulty signal as the SUVs are being started. ...
Neb. students compete with electric car designs
High school teams from Elkhorn and Wayne have won scholarships with their electric car designs. Those two schools prevailed in the finals of the annual Power Drive competition. Elkhorn won the standard class because their vehicle won the most points for endurance, design and documentation. Elkhorn's vehicle completed 42 laps ...
Oil down slightly on rising dollar, OPEC output
The price of oil finished slightly lower Friday, after dropping 3 percent earlier in the day. Benchmark crude for June delivery slipped 35 cents to close at $96.04 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It was as low as $93.37 in the morning. Initially, a stronger dollar and ...
Maine panel airs bipartisan tax overhaul bill
As a legislative committee heard testimony Friday on a bill calling for a historic overhaul of Maine's tax code, there was near-universal agreement on one point: appreciation for the efforts of the bipartisan "Gang of 11." But that's about where the harmony ended. Businesses, especially those associated with the state's ...
Oil drops below $95 a barrel as dollar rises
The price of oil dropped below $95 a barrel on Friday as a strengthening dollar made crude more expensive for traders using other currencies. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for June delivery was down $1.74 to $94.65 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. ...
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