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• Cleaner mower, speedboat engines ordered
The long-awaited regulation requires a 35 percent reduction in emissions from new lawn and garden equipment beginning in 2011. Big emission reductions are also required for speedboats and other recreational watercraft, beginning in 2010.
• Plug in safely overseas
You've renewed your passport, bought your plane tickets and researched your destination — now it's time to prepare for the little details of traveling overseas. One is making sure you have the right equipment needed to use electrical appliances you ...
• Southeast U.S. braces for Hanna, then Ike
The American Red Cross was moving supplies, equipment and people into areas Hanna might affect, said spokesman Pat McCrummen. He said the organization has distributed 3.5 million meals to people affected by Gustav and supplies for the East Coast were ...
• Shuttle hauled to launch pad in Florida
Spacewalking astronauts are expected to install a new camera and light-splitting spectrograph, repair two other science instruments and replace batteries as well as equipment needed to aim and hold the telescope on targets.
• Oil prices dip after U.S. inventory report
Some oil companies in the western Gulf whose equipment wasn’t in the path of the storm began ramping up operations Wednesday. However, about 96 percent of oil production in the Gulf and about 92 percent of natural gas output remained shut down as of ...