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This week’s Zaproot features GO blogs Ecoworldly, Planetsave, and Gas 2.0, and discusses European efforts to address obesity, Ford’s increasing “green” efforts, and Robert De Niro’s restaurant servering an endangered species.

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Toyota’s yet-to-be-unveiled 2010 Prius will have a bigger engine and a higher top speed, but improvements to CO2 emissions and fuel efficiency will take a backseat.

While the company has plans for a hyper-efficient plug-in version of the Prius by 2011, the standard model will make relatively few upgrades to its environmentally-friendly features. “It will be cleaner, with CO2 emissions below 100gm per kilometer,” said Miguel Fonseca, a Toyota managing director. “We could have gone lower but, instead, we have chosen to give the Prius better performance.”

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Proposed compliance schedule for gasoline and diesel fuels and substitutes. Click to enlarge. The staff of the California Air Resources Board has posted the Draft Regulation for the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) which contains the latest staff proposals…

Schematic of a microbial electrolysis cell. Click to enlarge. Source: OSU Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) have developed a new membrane-free microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) for the production of hydrogen gas from several types of biowaste—including ordinary municipal sewage….

The Detroit News reports that General Motors Corp. and Cerberus Capital Management LP have been in preliminary talks for more than a month about a possible merger with Chrysler LLC, according to “a person familiar with the matter”. Cerberus owns…

The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) unanimously adopted amendments to the MARPOL Annex VI regulations to reduce harmful emissions from ships. The main changes to MARPOL Annex VI will see a progressive reduction in…