Green Vehicle Guide is a new consumer-oriented Web page designed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which rates new vehicles according to their emissions and fuel economy performance.
National 4-H Council's Youth-Corporate Connections Team has developed a curriculum, Going Places, Making Choices, that focuses on raising the awareness of high school age youth about transportation and personal mobility choices now and in the future. It challenges youth to understand the interdependency between economic, environmental, societal, and political concerns through five units that cover: the history of transportation, natural resources and energy use, global climate change, land use, and personal choices and actions.
Car Care Council, (419) 734-5343, One Park Drive, Port Clinton, Ohio 43452 or http://www.carcarecouncil.org or carcare@infinet.com
Department of Transportation (DOT) Auto Safety Hotline, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (202) 366-0123 or http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov
The EPA/DOE Fuel Economy Guide is available for free from DOE at (800) 363-3732 or the Consumer Information Center, Pueblo, CO 81009 or http://www.eren.doe.gov/feguide
EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, (919) 541-5619, or
http://www.epa.gov/oai/oaqps
EPA Office of Mobile Sources, National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory, 2565 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, (734) 214-4333, or http://www.epa.gov/OMSWWW
For more information, contact a specialist at (800) 557-2366 or send us an e-mail message.
National Safety Council
1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 1200, Washington, DC 20036
(202) 293-2270 (tel); (202) 293-0032 (fax)
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