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WHYY reports Philadelphia’s Proterra electric bus fleet sidelined due to cracked chassis and other defects

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BYD buses were removed from service in Indianapolis for upgrades due to range issues, while officials in Albuquerque, New Mexico, returned 15 BYD buses for similar reasons, Briggs reported. There’s only a few ways to move people around without emissions, and electric vehicles are one of them.”.

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California gas vehicle ban faces pushback from 17 states

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The Missouri State Attorney General commented, “If California can set restrictive ‘gas emissions’ standards, manufacturing becomes astronomically expensive, and those additional costs are passed onto consumers, many of which are Missourians.”

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London and Paris launch car scoring initiative based on real-world emissions; ICCT the technical lead

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Mayor of Paris and Chair of C40 Cities Anne Hidalgo and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced they are working together to create schemes to score new cars based on their real-world emissions and their impact on air quality and to provide that data in an accurate and accessible form to the public. Earlier post.). Source: The ICCT.

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Obama Administration Opens Up Oil and Gas Development and Exploration in Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic and Arctic

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The strategy will guide the current 2007-2012 offshore oil and gas leasing program, which was written by the previous administration but found by the courts last year to be legally flawed, as well as the new 2012-2017 program that this administration will propose. Energy Security Announcements.

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More bad buzz for Chevy Blazer EV: software glitches, doors that fly open

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The error was spotted at the San Luis Potosi assembly plant in Mexico, which then sparked a wider investigation, reports The Street. But the success of the Chevy Blazer EV is a critical piece for GM to meet its emissions goals, so this is a bad break right out of the gate. So the company has definitely seen better days.

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de Boer Resigns from UNFCCC

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Copenhagen did not provide us with a clear agreement in legal terms, but the political commitment and sense of direction toward a low-emissions world are overwhelming. de Boer will remain in his current position until 1 July and help negotiations move forward ahead of the Climate Change Conference in Mexico in November this year.

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Summary of decisions from Durban climate conference

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Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon. Parties to this second period will turn their economy-wide targets into quantified emission limitation or reduction objectives and submit them for review by 1 May 2012. as possible, but not later than 2015.

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