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Going with the talent flow

Electric Auto Association

Most recently she has spearheaded efforts to include electric tractors in the list of EVs eligible for state rebates. ”We We were especially excited about the 4-wheelers because they’re used on farms all over the state and the gas vehicles are very noisy and air polluting.” “I

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

I wrote a list of about 30 or 40 events like this over the last 50 years where, it was going to be the next big thing. Along with the end of Moore’s Law and Dennard scaling —this is allowing silicon designers to get outside of the idea of just a faster PC. Climate change makes farming more difficult, more uncertain.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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PPIC Survey Finds Californianss Support for Policies to Curb Warming Slips With Economy and Budget Crisis; Partisan Split Widens

Green Car Congress

But in a year that has seen both a worsening recession and state budget crisis, residents’ support for urgent action on climate change has slipped and a partisan divide on the issue has widened. But in the current economic climate their support has dropped a notch. Mark Baldassare, president and CEO of PPIC.

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