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Rutgers study: facial and head injuries from electric scooters “a rising epidemic”

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For example, the District of Columbia classified motorized scooters as “personal mobility devices” that are not subject to inspection or helmet laws while a new law in New Jersey regulates electric scooters in the same way as a traditional bicycles, requiring helmets in only those under 17.

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80x30: U.S. Clean Energy Standard Accelerates Transition to Renewables

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Many US states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico already have their own goals. In the US, RPSs have accounted for nearly half of the country's renewable energy growth since 2000. So it's unclear just how much solar, wind, and batteries would grow. If the success of similar state policies.is

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PJM/Better Place study finds unmanaged charging of 1M electric cars could add $750M in annual wholesale energy costs; need for CNO-managed smart charging

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PJM Interconnection is a regional transmission organization (RTO) that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia. For the study, the authors distributed EVs by census tract by Median Household Income (MHI), the proxy for affluence, according to the US Census 2000.

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