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ARB Newsclips for May 9, 2014. 

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AIR POLLUTION

Air pollution spikes in Palm Beach County.  Air quality in Palm
Beach County worsened slightly this week, as hot dry weather
prevented the swift dilution of pollution from cars, power plants
and other sources.  The Air Quality Index for the county dipped
from good to moderate for ground-level ozone Thursday and was
forecast to remain moderate on Friday.  Posted. 
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/fl-air-pollution-palm-20140508,0,7777031.story


HIGH-SPEED RAIL

Deerfield company helps bring bullet rail to California.  A
Deerfield company has designed equipment being used to create the
first bullet train in California.  RCM Power Engineering is
providing a remanufactured mobile rail car mover, a Trackmobile 3
TM, for the French company Alstom Transport to move high speed
rail train car bodies.  Posted. 
http://www.recorder.com/news/townbytown/deerfield/11673389-95/deerfield-company-helps-bring-bullet-rail-to-california


DROUGHT

In California, Spigots Start Draining Pockets.  The municipal
water utility in this city, home to wide beaches, sun-kissed
weekend getaways and evocative alternative scholarship, just got
tough. Last week it started rationing water — for nonfarmers, the
most draconian response to date to California’s debilitating
drought.  Posted. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/us/a-thirsty-california-puts-a-premium-on-excess-water-use.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1


GREEN ENERGY

Obama to tout renewables, announce solar panel back at the White
House.  President Obama will promote his record on energy
efficiency on Friday by touting several initiatives he says are
taking hold across the country – as well as the completion of one
very close to home.  After years of delay, solar panels have been
installed on the first family’s residence at the White House,
according to aides, who say Obama will make the announcement at a
speech in Mountain View, Calif., on Friday.  Posted. 
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-obama-energy-20140508-story.html


BLOGS

Another Hydrogen Fueling Station Opens In LA, With Fuel-Cell Cars
On The Way.  Another hydrogen fueling station opened in southern
California yesterday, this one at California State University,
Los Angeles.  The university's Hydrogen Research and Fueling
Facility is a part of its program in sustainable energy and
transportation technology, and is the largest hydrogen station
operated by a university anywhere in the U.S.  Posted. 
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1091968_another-hydrogen-fueling-station-opens-in-la-with-fuel-cell-cars-on-the-way


Solar panels here to stay atop White House roof.  The White House
has completed installing solar panels on the First Family's
residence, a process it started back in 2010.  President Obama,
who will announce the project's completion as part of a broader
push to expand solar energy deployment in the private and public
sectors, took up the gauntlet nearly three decades after Ronald
Reagan dismantled the panels Jimmy Carter had put on the roof. 
Posted. 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/05/09/solar-panels-here-to-stay-atop-white-house-roof/

Texas will soon offer $2,500 rebate for EVs, PHEVs and more. 
Lots of US states have implemented some sort of tax incentive
program for buyers of electric vehicles. Hawaii, California,
Massachusetts and more. One of those others could soon be Texas -
land of the famously anti-Tesla dealer laws - where an
alternative fuel vehicle rebate is about to go into effect,
perhaps as soon as next week.  Posted. 
http://green.autoblog.com/2014/05/08/texas-will-soon-offer-2-500-rebate-for-evs-phevs-and-more/






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