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How Roboticists Can Tackle Climate Change

Cars That Think

However, there’s a shortage of roboticists tackling climate change, due to a lack of awareness of necessary and urgent applications. After talking with many climate robotics founders for my blog, Nirva Labs , here are my findings on how you can find opportunities to help robots make an impact on climate change.

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Report: 4 of 10 Americans live with unhealthy air, and EVs can help

Baua Electric

Air pollution remains a major threat to the health of many Americans, but stricter emissions rules could help, according to the American Lung Association. population—live in areas with unhealthy areas of air pollution. And spikes in deadly air pollution are the most severe recorded in the history of the report.

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Getting the personal story `

Electric Auto Association

“A lot of this has to do with trust around new technology,” Cary explained. It’s scary when you’re buying something new and it can help to talk with someone who has had a similar experience.” A lot of people care very deeply about climate change, and many are engineering-oriented and have a fascination with electric cars.

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BREAKING NEWS: Exxon/Mobil Ordered Out of Torrance, Guilty of Greenhouse Gas Pollution

Creative Greenius

“Pack Up Your Toxic, Fossil Fuel Factory With Its Climate-Changing Products & Get Out of Town By 2020!&# Consider this fair and legal warning, world’s largest and most polluting oil company - I’m giving you 10 years to pack up and hit the road. And yes every single person in that movement is a hapless dupe.

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Trump reportedly told oil execs he’ll end electric car incentives for $1 billion in donations

Baua Electric

Those who know me personally know I’m as apolitical as it gets. I don’t believe the biggest changes come from politics. Even if you don’t believe in human’s contribution to climate change, you must at least believe to clean air? Everyone agrees that burning fossil fuels is extremely polluting.

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In a US first, the oil and gas sector will pay fines for excess methane emissions

Baua Electric

The Waste Emissions Charge is designed to get fossil fuel companies to quickly deploy available technologies and best practices to reduce methane emissions and other harmful air pollutants. That’s because methane is a climate “super pollutant” that’s more potent than carbon dioxide. Get started here. –

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Opinion: Politicians Are Lying About Biden's EPA Rule

The Truth About Cars

You will soon see arguments from certain anti-EV types that new rule is an EV mandate. That said, consumers will still have their choice of vehicle type under the new rule. Again, from the NYT : Under the Clean Air Act, the agency can limit the pollution generated by the total number of cars sold each year. It very much is not.

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