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Tesla settles hazardous waste lawsuit in California for $1.5 million

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You can also see the full complaint document from the hazardous waste suit below, as filed last Tuesday. Tesla Hazardous Waste Lawsu… by zacharydvisconti What are your thoughts? Let me know at zach@teslarati.com , find me on X at @zacharyvisconti , or send your tips to us at tips@teslarati.com.

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Tesla Semi Pepsico fleet ready to take on the road

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Public documents showed that the global beverage company submitted to install 8 Megacharger stalls at its facility in Fresno, California. PepsiCo stated that its Tesla Semi fleet was made possible through a grant by Sacramento’s air quality district.

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California High Speed Rail Authority Votes to Include $4.5B for High-Speed Train Projects In State Federal Stimulus Funding Application

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466 million for Fresno to Merced, including right-of-way acquisition, grade-separations, utility relocation, environmental mitigation, earthwork, guideway structures and track. 23 September 2009 Board Meeting Documents. The state’s application includes: $1.28

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UC Davis Begins $2.8M Studies on Impacts of Escaped Nitrogen

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These environmental impacts are not fully documented, according to Tom Tomich, director of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis. With this new funding, we can start to fill in those blanks, and improve management of nitrogen, carbon and water to help move agriculture toward sustainability in significant ways. .

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California ARB to hold community meetings on coming LEV III combined tailpipe and GHG regulations

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Additionally, ARB is preparing an environmental analysis (known as a Functional Equivalent Document, or FED) on the rulemaking (more below). The community meetings are currently scheduled for Fresno (12 July); Pacoima (19 July); and Oakland (26 July). This fifth workshop will serve as the scoping meeting for the environmental document.