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Fuel Economy Improvements in US Climate Commitment on Par with 1970s Gains
2015-12-17 06:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: To hold up its end of the landmark climate deal signed in Paris last week, the U.S. will need to make cars and trucks of the future far more fuel efficient. Its commitment to reduce carbon pollution relies -- in part -- on fuel economy standards enacted by the Obama administration that aim to increase the fuel efficiency of cars and light trucks to the equivalent of 54 miles per gallon by 2025. New research from the University of Washington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows that...
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Americans weaned themselves off oil in the 1970s. We can do it again
2015-12-11 16:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Americans are capable of dramatically changing their energy use. And our political leaders can take decisive, bipartisan action on global environmental problems. This is not just wishful thinking. We know this because they have done so before in response to the 1970s oil crisis. Before the crisis, the federal government had no real energy policy. Decades of cheap oil helped fuel the economic boom after the second world war. Until the early 1970s, few policymakers believed this would change....
Jim Slater and the warning from the 1970's that we ignored
2015-11-20 13:03:55| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The life of Jim Slater, the buccaneering 1970s financier and asset stripper who has died aged 88, is a classic tale of boom to bust.
'Dinnertimin'' and 'No Tipping': How Advertisers Targeted Black Consumers in the 1970s
2015-06-07 21:08:28| Beverages - Topix.net
In an attempt to reach African American customers, many U.S. businesses began integrating their commercials - often by relying on fraught stereotypes. In the 1970s, something special began happening in American advertising.
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How 1970s deodorant is still doing harm
2015-06-06 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Fluorine is an evil gas. And it is also used to manufacture a string of other artificial gases, some of which nearly left mankind exposed to burning ultraviolet light - and are even now warming the planet. "Fluorine is the tyrannosaurus rex of the periodic table," says chemistry professor Andrea Sella. "It will react spontaneously with every other element except for helium, neon and argon." If you ever happen to lay eyes on pure, elemental fluorine, it looks fairly innocuous - a pale yellow...
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