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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

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This could be as simple as a company offering employees a transit pass or as complicated as a corporation helping to refurbish bus stations. Fifteen-minute cities are effectively an offshoot of Vision Zero and are designed to create sustainable urban environments that mitigate pollution while also being convenient for the local population.

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Report: Lithium Americas Breaks Ground in Nevada Mining Operation

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Even without the Biden administration’s corporate incentives to pivot the automotive industry toward electric vehicles, lithium mining is viewed as a broadly lucrative endeavor. The fact that lithium mines have taken criticism for polluting groundwater may have also been a contributing issue.

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

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The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities. Photos: GM, Segway purr about PUMA Martin LaMonica is a senior writer for CNETs Green Tech blog. He started at CNET News in 2002, covering IT and Web development. E-mail Martin.

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Gas War: U.S. House Suggests Ending California Emissions Authority, White House Says Nope

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Furthermore, the EPA cannot legally issue a formal ban on combustion vehicles. However, the legal hurdles confronted by the Trump administration were vast and Biden undid any headway it had made by subsequent executive order. percent of U.S. vehicles sold in 2022 that were EVs. Image: ZikG/Shutterstock] Become a& TTAC insider.

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Gas War: 25 States Sue EPA Over Updated Emissions Regulations

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This ruling reaffirms California’s longstanding right to address pollution from cars and trucks, work started by Governor Ronald Reagan and codified by President Richard Nixon,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said at the time.& We won’t stop fighting to protect our communities from pollution and the climate crisis.”

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