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Mobile Source: - Any non-stationary source of air pollution such as cars, trucks, motorcycles, buses, airplanes, and locomotives.
[Environmental Protection Agency]

News archive for Mobile Source::

CALIFORNIA TO SUE EPA  -  04 Aug 2008
Maritime Global Net,...vessels that purchased fuel in the US emitted 84.2 million metric tons of CO2 in 2006, or 3.9 percent of the total US mobile source CO2 emissions.

Google, Symbian: Cooperation Needed  -  Jul 31, 2008
BusinessWeek...by Olga Kharif When it comes to cell-phone software, open is the new black. In less than two years, no fewer than three coalitions have formed with the

Intel switches from Ubuntu to Fedora for Mobile Linux  -  Jul 25, 2008
Heise Online,Chip manufacturer Intel wants to use parts of the Fedora Project Linux distribution instead of Ubuntu as the basis for the second version of Moblin (Mobile

Symbian Foundation Gains More Support  -  Jul 10, 2008
InformationWeek,The open source operating system will be combine elements of the Symbian OS with Nokia's S60, DoCoMo MOAP, and UIQ to create an open mobile software

Power restored to Palmetto Children's Hospital  -  Aug 1, 2008
WIS,Earlier this week, a water line break flooded part of Children's Hospital, knocking out power - including the air conditioning. Fifty-five patients were

Back to school: the bus beats the prius  -  Jul 21, 2008
Plenty Magazine,Matthew Solomon, Mobile Source Analyst for non-profit Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM), estimates that the average school bus

El Monte lab tests everything from lawn mowers to blenders for ...  -  Jul 11, 2008
Press-Enterprise,..."Unfortunately, a few hundred of these got out into the marketplace," said Gregory Binder, manager of air board's mobile-source enforcement unit.

Clean Energy Is Awarded $3.6 Million MSRC Grant to Help Fund Nine ...  -  Jul 17, 2008
FOXBusinessSEAL BEACH, Calif., Jul 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) ----The Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC) and the South Coast Air Quality

Polystyrene demand in North America and Europe will grow by 1 - 1 ...  -  Jul 6, 2008
Chemical Explorer (subscription),Also, the new Mobile Source Air Toxics rule (MSAT) in the US, would put more benzene in the pool and out of gasoline.Starting in 2011, refiners and

US: Clean Energy wins US$3.6m grant to set up natural gas fuelling ...  -  Jul 18, 2008
Automotive World (subscription),By Megan Lampinen The Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC) and the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) recently

Symbian And Android To Team For Mobile OS Powerhouse?  -  Jul 18, 2008
Information Week Weblog,Since Nokia recently acquired 100% ownership of Symbian and announced plans to turn it over to a new Symbian Foundation as part of a move to create an

Developers load Android onto Nokia device  -  Jul 7, 2008
PCWorld.co.nz,Developers have created an easy way to load Android, Google's mobile-phone OS that is still in the works, on Nokia's N810 open-source handheld devices.

Avis du Conseil de la Concurrence sur les MVNO: actions rapides ...  -  Jul 31, 2008
Référencement Internet-Web,...le législateur pour permettre aux MVNO de pleinement exercer leur rôle concurrentiel sur le marché de la téléphonie mobile. Source : Alternative Mobile.

GPS-Navigation: Garmin setzt auf GNOME und Linux  -  Jul 6, 2008
derStandard.at,Mit Garmin setzt ein bekannter Hersteller von GPS-Navigationsgeräten zu weiten Teilen auf GNOME Mobile: Das Unternehmen hat nun den Source Code für die Nuvi

Financialbusinessnews.us: A Stock News Update: MGRN, TNOG, CLNE, CMP  -  Jul 17, 2008
Trading Markets (press release),...(NASDAQ: CLNE | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) announced earlier today that The Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC) and the

Mobiles Linux auf dem Vormarsch  -  Jul 22, 2008
Computerwelt,Jim Zemlin, Executive Director der Linux Foundation, und Jason Grigsby vom Webdesign- und Webmanagement-Dienstleister Cloud Four unterstrichen auf der

Artificial Life, Inc. Announces Support of Google's Open Source ...  -  Nov 26, 2007
SYS-CON Brasil (Assinatura),Hong Kong-based Artificial Life, Inc announced their plans to develop new and innovatively designed games and applications for Google's free and open source

What Does Google's Android Mean For The Open Source Community?  -  Nov 5, 2007
InformationWeek,Google's Android announcement today may be the biggest news story ever for the mobile open source community. To add some perspective, I sat with Fabrizio

Funambol to develop open source mobile messaging app for Android  -  Nov 19, 2007
NetworkWorld.com,By Brad Reed, Network World, 11/19/07 Funambol, which makes an open source mobile application server, announced last week that it will be creating a mobile

Google's Latest Efforts Test the Open Waters  -  Nov 9, 2007
Wired NewsBy Bryan Gardiner 11.09.07 | 6:30 PM In the span of just two weeks, Google has launched two major open source efforts with a ragtag group of partners,

PDA's newsbucket  -  Nov 26, 2007
Media Guardian,Spam - it's everywhere. And this year the total number of spam email messages sent worldwide (10.8 trillion) will surpass the number of person-to-person

Google offers millions to Android developers  -  Nov 12, 2007
New Zealand Herald,Google is looking for developers to build applications for its new Android open source smartphone operating system. Google has put up $US10 million ($13.2m)

Funambol Announces Open Source iphone Sync  -  Nov 8, 2007
TMCnetBy David Sims Funambol, a vendor of mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, has announced the release of an open source native app for iphone

Funambol Rated As Most Promising Private Global Technology Venture  -  Nov 15, 2007
Linux Magazine (subscription),SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15 /prnewswire/ -- Red Herring Magazine announced today that Funambol, the leading provider of mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by

Global Market Review Of Fuel Tanks - Forecasts To 2013  -  Dec 1, 2007
Live-PR.com (Pressemitteilung),Plus, exclusive interviews from : Sharon Lemieux, manager, Emission Research Section, Mobile Source Control Division at CARB where she explains the work of

Google pens partnerships for G-phone  -  Nov 5, 2007
PC Pro,Google is set to take the wrapping off its mobile phone offering this week, introducing a mobile operating system and a broad alliance with multiple

playstation Phone Coming?  -  Nov 21, 2007
G4 TV,Wanna hear the hottest rumor on the net right now? Sony is working on a playstation phone. Supposedly, the device will "bring the power of a video game

Environmental Control Corporation Provides Update on 185cc, Two ...  -  Nov 26, 2007
WELT ONLINE,Small SI engines produce approximately one-tenth of US mobile source hydrocarbon (HC) emissions and are the largest single contributor to non road HC

Security Around the Gphone & Iphone  -  Nov 9, 2007
WebProNews,With the open handset alliance, the scrutiny for Linux based cell phone operating systems is once again something that security engineers need to think

Trailer Bridge Emissions Differences Featured In EPA SmartWay ...  -  Nov 28, 2007
PR-USA.net (press release),In many respects a larger environmental concern are vessel “particulate matter� emissions, which represent up to half of all mobile source particulate

S1 Corporation Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript  -  Nov 8, 2007
Seeking Alpha,Then lastly in terms of the quarter in review, I’d like to say a few words about the mobile source code license that we acquired.

Environmentalism and the future of coal, part two  -  Nov 24, 2007
Grist Magazine,...power plants) which can, at least in theory, be captured, or mobile source (like gasoline-powered transport) which is pretty much impossible to capture.

Failing cars skip retests  -  Nov 27, 2007
Denver Post,While the problem is small, experts say that the dirtiest 10 percent of vehicles generate as much as 50 percent of the area's "mobile-source" pollution,

Thirty Years of Missed Opportunities Because of One Government ...  -  Nov 28, 2007
HoweStreet.com,Eric Stork, head of EPA's Mobile Source Air Pollution Control Program from 1970 until 1978, was against hybrids from the start. The now-78-year-old recently

Global Refining Capacity Shortage: One Way Out  -  Nov 16, 2007
Arab News,The growth in demand for light products such as gasoline and diesel has been matched by the rise in concern over mobile source emissions and their effects

Open mouth, insert soap  -  Nov 7, 2007
Houston Chronicle,And while everyone agrees that cars are a problem, so-called mobile source contributions are on track to plummet as federal regulators lower benzene content

State air regulators want go-ahead on auto exhaust reduction rules  -  Nov 5, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle,...we didn't rely on just full hybrids to get to our goal," said Steve Abu, assistant chief of the air board's Mobile Source Control Division.

A guide to giving and sending animals as charity gifts  -  Nov 15, 2007
Ekklesia,Goats are bought locally, also give nomadic communities (who don’t stay in one place for long) a mobile source of income. Give a Llama You can give a farmer

Sen. Duff: program will protect school children from harmful bus ...  -  Nov 15, 2007
Stamford Plus Magazine,Officials interested in obtaining more information on the grant program should contact the DEP Toxics and Mobile Source Group at (860)424-3027 or visit

State changing its focus on emissions testing  -  Nov 10, 2007
Journal Times,...and the Department Of Transportation, said Larry Bruss, chief of the Department of Natural Resource’s regional pollutant and mobile source section.

Source: Sanyo mulling cell phone operation sale  -  Aug 13, 2007
ZDNetJapan's Sanyo Electric is considering selling its loss-making mobile phone operations and is already in preliminary talks with several domestic cell phone

Vodafone to keep Verizon Wireless stake-source  -  Aug 7, 2007
ReutersBy Kirstin Ridley, European Telecoms Correspondent LONDON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Mobile phone giant Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L: Quote, Profile, Research) is

Discovery Channel cycling team to disband  -  Aug 10, 2007
Los Angeles Times,A T-Mobile source said that US national champion George Hincapie, who has ridden for Discovery Channel (and its previous incarnation United States Postal

Gateway Cities Fleet Modernization Program Reaches Milestone  -  Aug 21, 2007
PR Newswire (press release),...the California Air Resources Board, the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC), and the United States Environmental Protection

EAD chairs committee for introduction of 'green diesel' in Abu Dhabi  -  Jul 29, 2007
AME Info (press release),...quality is generally poorer, putting an increasing number of urbanized areas in developing countries under pressure from mobile source air pollution.

District to employees: Look who's calling that cell phone  -  Jul 31, 2007
Florida Times-Union,...weekends and mobile-to-mobile. Source: Duval County school system~~~JOSEPH Wise's response Here is the entire response from Superintendent Joseph Wise

Research Institute Adds Nothing To Knowledge  -  Jul 31, 2007
Scoop.co.nz,When pressed to indicate a best guess how many kiwi's die from mobile source diesel emissions Woodward said, 'about twice the national road toll',

Environmental Control Corporation to Attend Industry Leading Tradeshow  -  Jul 30, 2007
American Digital Networks (press release),Small SI engines produce approximately one tenth of US mobile source hydrocarbon (HC) emissions and are the largest single contributor to non road HC




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