Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2018

The law firm of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP has filed a class-action lawsuit accusing Ford and Bosch of knowingly installing emissions-cheating software devices in 2011-2017 Ford 250 and 350 Super Duty diesel pickup trucks, allowing the affected pickups to pollute at levels up to 50 times legal limits. Ford called the claim “baseless”.

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MARCH 24, 2024

On the other hand, just like any other sector, it is confronted with several issues in human resources (HR), particularly in the context of new businesses or established businesses that want to grow. Businesses facing human resource challenges must take measures to address talent acquisition and retention.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2020

The involved US authorities are the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the California Attorney General’s Office, and the US Customs and Border Protection. authorities and continues to do so.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2020

Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE) released a new report “ Legal Grounds: Law and Policy Options to Facilitate a Phase-Out of Fossil Fuel Production in California.”. These resources are responsible for billions of dollars in state and local revenue and other economic activity each year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) reached a settlement agreement with American Honda Motor Corporation, Inc. Honda failed these tests demonstrating evaporative emissions of gasoline above the legal limit. Honda) of Torrance, California for $6.9 million for violations of CARB’s air quality regulations.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

According to the Brandenburg Ministry of the Environment , the objections of residents and environmental associations, as well as the statements of authorities and Tesla itself, would be listed on an online platform for three weeks. . Tesla is facing over 800 objections against Gigafactory Berlin’s construction.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Open source software and open data can be an extraordinary resource for furthering science,” wrote two U.S. In this environment, open models play a vital role. For the first time, these instruments establish a legal threshold beyond which models will be deemed “dual use” or “systemic risk” technologies. However, the E.U.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The project represents one of Canada’s largest resource development projects with a total capital investment of up to $36 billion when accounting for upstream natural gas development. The project is subject to over 190 legally binding conditions that will lessen the environmental impacts of the project.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2020

However, weather also has an influence on NO 2 concentrations, according to a study by the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), which evaluated the influence of weather conditions on nitrogen dioxide concentrations in Saxony 2015 to 2018 on behalf of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology (LfULG).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The European NGO Transport & Environment commissioned IFP Energies Nouvelles to run a series of lab-based tests simulating real-world driving (WLTC and RDE) to measure the emissions of different electrofuel blends in an A-class (A180) Mercedes. However, said T&E, particle pollution was far from eliminated. Full report. Test results.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

the role of national governments in improving pedestrian mobility and proposes 12 sets of measures to create safer walking environments. Urban environments are often making it difficult to enjoy this most fundamental form of moving. Adopt a “safe system” approach for the design of walking environments.

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APRIL 21, 2024

Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press. ‘Environment’ was a word that appeared more often in spelling contests than on the evening news. At the time, Americans were slurping leaded fuel through massive V8 sedans. These actions harm nature, and they harm humanity.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Legal context. The Convention also recognizes that coastal states have sovereign rights over the natural resources of the seabed and subsoil of the continental shelf as well as jurisdiction over certain activities like marine scientific research. —Joe Oliver, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resource.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2013

For example: the behavior in water of the material to be transported is incompletely understood; the terrain the pipeline wold cross is not only remote, it is in many places extremely difficult to access; the impact of spills into pristine river environments would be profound. —BC Environment Minister Terry Lake.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

The indictment unsealed today alleges that Volkswagen’s scheme to cheat its legal requirements went all the way to the top of the company. I want to thank the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section, the Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and the U.S. Neal of the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2017

The initial SCR design required a certain amount of AdBlue be stored onboard the vehicle to reduce NO x emissions to legal limits and reach a 10,000 mile service interval for refilling. Williams of the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, and Acting US Attorney Daniel L.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2012

The accompanying report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) confirms an initial assessment published earlier this year, showing 12 EU Member States exceeded limits under the National Emissions Ceilings (NEC) Directive in 2010. State of the environment report No 6/2012. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2019

With the vigorous rise of the transportation industry, scrap tires (STs), which were once called “black pollution”, have become a critical threat to the human environment. Unfortunately, approximately 65–70% of those STs are dumped legally or illegally in landfills or suffer from direct exposure to air. —Lou et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Martin Keller, Laboratory Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Tom Kuhn, President, Edison Electric Institute; Eric McCarthy, Senior Vice President, Government Relations, Public Policy and Legal Affairs, Proterra; Mark McNabb, CEO, Electrify America; Arlen Orchard, General Manager & CEO, Sacramento Municipal Utility District; Thomas S.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Sensors enabled by the Internet of Things are network-connected smart devices that collect and transmit real-time data about their environment. Consequences of poor cybersecurity A cyberattack can lead to financial penalties and legal issues if it renders a business or organization unable to fulfill its contractual obligations.

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Teslarati

JUNE 17, 2022

“We have too much critical work to accomplish and no need for this kind of overreaching activism — our current leadership team is more dedicated to ensuring we have a great and ever-improving work environment than any I have seen in my 35-years career,” she wrote. . Following is Shotwell’s letter to SpaceX employees about the matter: .

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2011

The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford recently published a report recommending that individual governments take more action to curb their own greenhouse gas emissions and put pressure on other governments to do the same. International climate negotiations can only go so far.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2021

The complaint filed in Manhattan federal court alleges that from approximately 2005 until at least late 2015, Toyota systematically violated Clean Air Act automobile defect reporting requirements designed to protect public health and the environment from harmful air pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Traits that could be improved with gene modification include enhanced stress tolerance, reduced costs of conversion to liquid fuels, reduced use of water and fertilizer in cultivation, avoiding dispersal into the environment, and synthesis of new, renewable products such as industrial enzymes. Strauss, Drew L. Kershen, Joe H.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2013

Such crops could be the source of significant fuel resources from biological production DOE said, noting that therefore it is extremely important to understand their potential impact on the environment. Are there other delineations that might be used to determine the regional impacts of such crops?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

Under the plea agreement, both Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress, must certify that they have reserved sufficient assets to meet legal obligations with respect to its coal ash impoundments within North Carolina, obligations estimated to be approximately $3.4

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Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2022

I was thinking about what kind of work I wanted to do and what kind of environment I wanted to create, and it seemed like it was better to start something from scratch and figure out how to sustain that. Spatial apartheid is legally over. I’ve been working on a paper with a legal scholar named. We don’t want them to work 24/7.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2011

The EU-27 and its Member States must meet legally binding limits for four air pollutants set by the National Emission Ceilings Directive (NEC Directive). This revision of policy, including the NEC Directive, is expected to propose stricter emission ceilings for 2020 in order to protect health and the environment further. Source: EEA.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The decision to move forward comes after years of dedicated research into the overwhelming safety benefits provided by a connected vehicle environment.” DOT testing is indicating interoperability of V2V technology among products from different vehicle manufacturers and suppliers and has demonstrated that they work in real-world environments.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2014

All these challenges are supported by studies of legal issues and effectiveness evaluation. Areas of effective application, legal issues. Comprehensive assessment of cognitive assistance systems for urban areas concerning potential, effectiveness, and legal requirements. Networked Traffic Systems.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Many of the resulting environmental problems can be addressed by stepping up efforts to meet new EU targets, according to the latest report from the European Environment Agency (EEA). The EEA’s annual report under the Transport and Environment Reporting Mechanism (TERM) assesses the environmental impact of transport across Europe.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2011

According to the group, an integrated climate change and clean energy policy framework should include: Clear short-, medium- and long-term greenhouse gas emission reduction objectives and targets, and comprehensive, enforceable legal mechanisms and timelines for delivering on these objectives and targets.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2018

The Montreal Protocol has been effective in reducing ozone-depleting gases in the atmosphere because all countries in the world agreed to legally binding controls on the production of most human-produced gases known to destroy ozone. More work will be needed to narrow down the locations of these new emissions, Montzka said. Montzka, Geoff S.

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Drive Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Most high-end models, such as those from Tesla , Audi’s e-Tron and the Mercedes Benz EQC SUVs , are so advanced that they are as close as legally possible to offering full driverless capabilities. Throughout 2022, we will be releasing more EV myth-busting resources. So do EVS or ICEVS perform better in an accident?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Air pollution from the 10,000 largest polluting facilities in Europe cost citizens between €102–169 billion (US$135–224 billion) in 2009, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) which analyzed the costs of harm to health and the environment caused by air pollution. Log scale) Source: EEA.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2015

Because they make driving safer and more comfortable, because they conserve resources and protect the environment, and because they bring together the mobile and the digital worlds. This means the Group is already well below the legal limit for 2015. Winterkorn stressed that “ at Volkswagen, technology is never an end in itself.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

As a result of this transaction, Verenium will have the resources to grow our commercial enzyme business while maintaining strategic access to the emerging cellulosic ethanol market in a manner that better fits our resources. DLA Piper LLP (US) served as legal advisor to BP. Cooley LLP served as legal advisor to Verenium.

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