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The Challenges of Complying with CAFE Standards
2013-06-30 19:30:02| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
The Obama Administrations 54.5 mpg CAFE standards must be met by 2025, but time is ticking away quickly. Twelve years has never felt shorter. Weight reduction is one of the most realistic ways to reach this goal. Studies suggest that a 10% decrease in vehicle weight results in a 6.6% increase in fuel efficiency. In fact, according to an ATG report, there is no single cost-effective technology that can accomplish 50+ MPG without significant weight reduction. OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, material suppliers, universities and research institutions join forces at the Advanced Lightweight Materials Summit August 26-27 in Detroit to discuss the latest lightweight materials solutions. In the hyper-competitive automotive industry, a pound saved is a dollar earned! Speakers at the Advance Lightweight Material for Automotive Summit include experts from the various OEMs and automakers, research and engineering firms. We have gathered responses to the focus question from some of them here. [Read more]The Article The Challenges of Complying with CAFE Standards appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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iPromise challenges Jamaica to live up to its pledge
2013-06-30 14:36:45| IT Services - Topix.net
There are many people across the nation who would readily say that Jamaica is 'losing her soul'.
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GOP bill challenges the administration's change in 'social cost of carbon'
2013-06-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) wants the White House to take public comment on its decision to increase the estimated damages from carbon emissions that agencies use in regulations. Bloomberg reports that Hunter introduced a bill Friday to force the White House Office of Management and Budget to seek comment on the changed cost, and submit information to Congress explaining its methodology behind the increased estimate. A recent Energy Department rule that boosted efficiency standards for microwave...
President Obama & The Complex Psychological Challenges Of Climate Change
2013-06-29 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: When President Obama stood on the steps at Georgetown University giving his climate change speech, he not only confronted thorny problems of policy and politics (as well as the discomfort of giving a major speech outside on an uncomfortably hot day), he also crashed head-first into a thorny thicket of complex psychological challenges that go along with fixing our broken climate. One set of challenges comes from American impatience. We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, want everything...
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KYRGYZSTAN: Promising garment industry faces challenges
2013-06-28 00:11:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Kyrgyzstan increased its "textile and garment exports 17-20% between 2010 and 2011," a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) official in the Kyrgyz capital Bishtek has told just-style, quoting most recent available figures.
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