Car makers pressured to build more fuel efficient vehicles

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The Environmental Protection Agency along with the U.S. Department of Transportation proposed by 2025 that all vehicles made in the U.S. will have a combined fuel efficiency of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. As gas prices rise, the increase in demand for fuel-efficient vehicles by consumers have grown with them. The United States has the worst fuel economy performance compared to other car-manufacturing countries, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) in August. The council reported the… Read more

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Zero Waste: Composting at CSUN

A New York Times article “Nudging Recycling From Less Waste to None” caught my attention recently. The article is about a new  anti-garbage movement know as Zero Waste. The article cites statistics by the Environmental Protection Agency stating Americans dump 4.6 pounds of garbage per person per day and  food waste accounts for about 13 percent of total trash nationally. All this trash eventually ends up in landfills. So to avoid making so much trash people are recycling and composting everything… Read more

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