Boston, Other Cities Debate Hybrid Taxis - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

In Boston, an association of taxi drivers and medallion owners filed a lawsuit last Friday to block a measure requiring that the city’s 1,825 cabs go hybrid by 2015, according to the Boston Globe.

“The owners are essentially saying, ‘Look, we’re not against going green, we’re against going broke,’” said Andrew Herbert, a manager at U.S.A. Taxi Garage, according to The Globe.
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The Los Angeles Times reports that in San Francisco, where 14 percent of the fleet is made up of hybrids, one hybrid-driving driver crowed that he had the “carbon footprint of an Ethiopian child.”

Central Kansas Community Sets Dubious Record

State Climatologist Mary Knapp tells the "Hutchinson News" the town's 30-inches would be a record. Knapp says they'll still need to confer with the National Weather Service and compare data at measuring stations around the area.

Knapp says indications are this will be the new daily record snowfall for the state, but first she'll have to continue a search of the records, including historical archives of some 496-stations dating back as early as 1900.