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Obama's best bet is to hire a moving company that belongs to the EPA's voluntary SmartWay Transport Partnership, a program that helps companies like ABF Freight Systems and its U-Pack residential moving division and Penske Truck Rental, which rents trucks to DIY movers, audit the environmental performance of their operations and then set greenhouse-gas and fuel-reduction goals they believe can be reached within three years.
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A University of Colorado analysis of 44,613 "fuel-reduction projects" found that only three percent of them occurred in urban-wildland interfaces or the buffer strip around them.
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Public support for forest restoration and fuel-reduction treatments in the Southwest is reasonably high.
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This capacity is presently buoyed by fuel-reduction efforts by the federal and state governments and local groups.
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But the Victorian government plans to continue the trial to determine the effectiveness of cattle grazing as a fuel-reduction strategy.
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But the Victorian government plans to continue the trial to determine the effectiveness of cattle grazing as a fuel-reduction strategy.
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That's because on April 20 the East Bay Regional Parks District board of directors approved a fuel-reduction plan for 19,000 acres of district parkland: the EBRPD
East Bay Express Judith Scherr 2010
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The scientists found that 11 percent of those fuel-reduction projects were within an area that includes the wildland-urban interface plus a 1. 5-mile buffer strip around it.
Vail Daily - Top Stories JEFF BARNARD AP Environmental Writer 2010
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The scientists analyzed a database containing the locations of all 44,613 fuel-reduction projects undertaken in Western states by various federal agencies under the National Fire Plan from its start in 2000 through 2008.
Vail Daily - Top Stories JEFF BARNARD AP Environmental Writer 2010
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Since the fires, fuel-reduction programmes have been expanded: a new national emergency warning system has been developed with warnings to be delivered to those at risk through mobile and fixed telephones, while fire preparation and firefighting resources have been boosted, including the aerial fire monitoring and firefighting fleet.
HEADLINES 2010
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