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CARB approves updated “At-Berth” regulation, expanding efforts to cut pollution from ships in California ports

Green Car Congress

The rule builds on progress achieved by the At-Berth Regulation adopted in 2007. The updated regulation adds auto carriers and tankers, two categories that produce 56% of all fine particulate pollution (PM 2.5 ) from ocean-going vessels at berth in California ports. Auto carriers will need to comply starting in 2025.

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PA Governor Wolf announces $8.5M from Volkswagen Settlement to reduce transportation pollution

Green Car Congress

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that 34 cleaner energy transportation projects will receive $8,489,844 in Driving PA Forward grants and rebates. In this second set of awards, the following recipients will receive grants and rebates: Statewide. Multi-county. Allegheny County. Giant Eagle, Inc.: Bedford County. Bucks County.

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Quebec battery processing plant eyed by means of Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz three way partnership

Baua Electric

Two specialists performing on behalf of the mobile manufacturer, which is these days centered at the Eu marketplace, started enticing with Ottawa on imaginable grants and incentives join to the improvement of a facility at an unspecified location in Quebec on Would possibly 19.

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Swaying toward EV mobility

Electric Auto Association

Michael Peters, the CEO and cofounder of the electric vehicle (EV) car share service Sway Mobility , works with the Electric Auto Association (EAA) at the national level as treasurer, and at the local level as a ‘Lead Volunteer” for Drive Electric Northeast Ohio. “So Michael Peters in the passenger seat of a Sway Mobility Bolt.

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Getting Wet and Wild With NASCAR in Chicago

The Truth About Cars

In the case of NASCAR’s Grant Park 220, there were a lot of firsts. It was the first time Chicago has hosted a street race for a major racing series in the modern era – and while we’re on the topic of firsts, what’s billed as the first-ever American auto race took place on the streets of the city and nearby Evanston in 1895.

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The EV Professor

Electric Auto Association

The university also granted special permission to non-students to attend the EV class, including a city manager from a small town in Eastern Nebraska. “I I knew a senator in the state legislature, Ken Haar, and in 2015 he agreed to sponsor a Tesla ride-and-drive at the capitol building,” he said. “I I provided my Roaster and Model S.

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The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now

Baua Electric

Mr. Wolen’s dishes are almost too impressive for a neighborhood spot like Boka, which recently turned 20 years old. His cooking — he was the chef de cuisine under Grant Achatz at Alinea — is meticulous and often surprising. Even the butter service — presented in a stacked ribbon reminiscent of a Frank Gehry building — puts on a show.

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