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Clean cabs and even cleaner clothes.(EARTH TALK: Questions & Answers About Our Environment)

Publication: E
Publication Date: 01-NOV-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Dear EarthTalk: I visited New York City recently and could not believe the number of taxicabs on the streets. Are there any efforts to "green up" these vehicles?--Justin Grant, Berkeley, CA

Last May, as part of a larger effort to make New York the "greenest major metropolis on the Mayor...

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...planet," Michael Bloomberg announced an ambitious plan to switch over the city's 13,000-vehicle taxi cab fleet from gas-guzzler cars (90 percent are large Ford Crown Victorias) to fuel-sipping gasoline-electric hybrids.

So far, 375 New York City cabs are hybrids, but Bloomberg wants that to rise to 1,000 by the end of 2008, with an additional 20 percent of the cab fleet...

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