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California will ban new gasoline car sales

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The rule is being issued by the California Air Resources Board, known as CARB, and will prohibit any driver from buying a new vehicle that utilizes an internal combustion engine for its powertrain. Minnesota is also expected to adopt CARB Standards in 2025, according to documents released by the agency. It aligned with them this year.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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a small mainframe computer company that Taylor had tried to convince Xerox to buy as a way of starring up PARC. Larry Tesler , now manager of object-oriented systems at Apple, who had graduated from Stanford, was still hanging around the campus when the university was considering buying an IBM 360 timesharing system.

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Glencore to pay >$1.1B to resolve government’s investigation into bribery and commodity and price manipulation

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pled guilty in the District of Connecticut to a commodity price manipulation conspiracy. According to court documents filed in the District of Connecticut, Glencore Ltd. itself, by increasing profits and reducing costs on contracts to buy and sell physical fuel oil, as well as certain derivative positions that Glencore Ltd.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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A limit was imposed on emissions from the power plants, and utilities were allowed to buy and sell permits to comply. It covers ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont). WCI covers seven U.S. Another six U.S.

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