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Zipcar a breath of fresh air for smaller and smaller U.S. cities

Josh Flory

Photo Credit: Zipcar entered another city, Knoxville, this week, and an air quality grant means members won't have to pay an annual fee.  Zipcar

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Federal funding is bolstering cleaner air as Zipcar's membership fees are being waived.

When his car died more than a year ago, local architect Glenn Richters decided that he didn't want to buy another one. Getting around without his own vehicle has sometimes been a challenge, though. Showing up for a business meeting in his daughter's Toyota Camry -- with 200,000 miles on the odometer -- isn't ideal, and Richters said public transportation "has its limitations." On Wednesday, he may have found a better solution. Richters signed up as a member of Zipcar, a car-sharing service that held a

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