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Rivian collaborates with non-profit to preserve biodiversity and fight climate change

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Rivian announced a collaboration with a non-profit organization called The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to preserve biodiversity, fight climate change, and keep adventures wild. Rivian will provide vehicles to TNC sites in California, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Florida as part of the collaboration.

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State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

Green Car Congress

The document is a detailed draft technical review of potential environmental impacts associated with the segment of the pipeline in the US, including: impacts from construction, impacts from potential spills, impacts related to climate change, and economic impacts. What Keystone XL would carry.

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Trump budget to slash EPA funds, ax staff, kill climate-change plans: reports

Green Car Reports

In his former position as Oklahoma attorney general, he sued the. Imagine appointing a lifelong pacifist, who believes it is never justifiable to take up arms against any man, to run the U.S. armed forces. The appointment of Scott Pruitt as the administrator of the U.S.

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Trump's EPA head Pruitt: climate-science denier who sued the EPA many times

Green Car Reports

If there were any doubt that president-elect Donald Trump supports fossil fuels and does not believe in the scientific consensus of climate change, his pick to head the U.S. Yesterday, he named Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt, a 48-year-old Republican, as his nominee for EPA.

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Gas War: 25 States Sue EPA Over Updated Emissions Regulations

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Over two dozen states have joined forces to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over proposed vehicle emissions regulations put forward by the Biden administration in March. We won’t stop fighting to protect our communities from pollution and the climate crisis.” The EPA declined to comment.

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