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Coltura: Supreme Court precedent means states can require all new vehicles sold be electric

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Recent US Supreme Court precedent has opened the door for states to enact laws requiring all new cars sold in the state to be electric as of a certain date, according to a paper by the nonprofit Coltura published in the University of Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law. Its vision is a gasoline-free US by 2040 or sooner.

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ASML’s threat to leave uncovers deeper concerns in Netherlands Inc – ET Auto

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While anti-Islam law maker Geert Wilders negotiates a government with other parties opposed to immigration, parliament has adopted a motion to cap the number of foreign students allowed to study at Dutch universities as well as end the skilled migrant tax break – both important pipelines for skilled labour.

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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Girardi says he hopes that Chile will be an example for the world and that other nations and international agencies will adopt comparable regulation. Yuste, a professor of biology at Columbia University who studies neural circuitry, has been promoting the idea of neurorights for nearly a decade now. Staff attorney. IEEE Spectrum.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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Alma mater: University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If The tokens, along with using smart contracts to reduce legal fees, would make real-time exchange and monetization feasible, he says. Employer: Mimik.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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Study Finds Government Mandates Superior to All Other Biofuels Policies, But Mixing With Subsidies Causes Adverse Effects; The Argument for a Direct CO2 Tax

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A new cost-benefit analysis of biofuels policies by economists Harry de Gorter and David Just at Cornell University has concluded that government mandates for biofuels “ are clearly superior to all other policies, with few tradeoffs arising. Subsidies and mandates by themselves do not discriminate against international trade.

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Why Countries Like India Desperately Need EV Battery Standardization

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The internal combustion engine will be gradually supplanted by the growth of the battery-powered electric car over the next half-century. Furthermore, vehicle manufacturers are frequently both legally and financially obligated to remove and recycle these batteries. The environmental argument feeds into a cost-benefit analysis.

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