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Who’s at Fault if Your Self-Driving Tesla Crashes?

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Tesla released the Roadster, a 100% electric vehicle, in 2008. The next step would be to take photos of your damaged Tesla for insurance and legal purposes. When photographing specific damaged sections of your vehicle, use a pen or a coin as a reference point for the size of the damage. What Do You Do If Autopilot Fails.

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EPA and California ARB charge Volkswagen with using software defeat device to circumvent NOx testing in 4-cylinder 2.0L diesels

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collectively referred to here as Volkswagen). The allegations cover roughly 482,000 diesel passenger cars sold in the United States since 2008. The alleged violations do not present a safety hazard; the cars remain legal to drive and resell. Affected diesel models include: Jetta (Model Years 2009 – 2015).

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Utah Water Quality Board upholds issuance of permit for oil sands mine in Utah

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At specific issue in the WQB decision was a 2008 permit-by-rule granted by DWQ to USOS for the project on the Tavaputs Plateau near PR Spring. DOGM referred the project to DWQ to determine if the project required a ground water permit. None of these bore holes encountered ground water. Allen presiding.

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Total hydrogen station in Munich first to feature standard compressed H2 and BMW cryo-compressed H2 technology

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The DOE Hydrogen Program conducted a technical assessment of cryo-compressed hydrogen storage for vehicular applications during 2006-2008. This portfolio can be flexibly tailored to different vehicle concepts, customer requirements and legal and regulatory requirements in the international automobile markets.

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Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change; The Fast Action Climate Agenda

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2009), reproduced from Ramanathan and Feng (2008) Click to enlarge. A binding legal agreement exists that can cut HFCs now—the Montreal Protocol ozone treaty—and many alternatives to HFCs have already been developed and are waiting for the right regulatory incentive from the Montreal Protocol to be deployed. From Molina et al.

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Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

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reforestation); Limiting deforestation by purchasing forested property and preserving the forests with legal and enforcement mechanisms; Setting aside croplands from agricultural production to rebuild carbon in the soil and vegetation; and. Transaction costs generally refer to the costs associated with an exchange of goods or services.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% “ We are not aiming to let anyone off the hook.

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