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Tesla settles hazardous waste lawsuit in California for $1.5 million

Teslarati

The lawsuit claimed that Tesla improperly labeled waste such as diesel fuel, paint materials, lubricating oils, brake fluids and used lead-acid batteries, among others, sending the materials to landfills that don’t accept these types of waste. Tesla Hazardous Waste Lawsu… by zacharydvisconti What are your thoughts?

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Special Guests at an LA Rally

Revenge of the Electric Car

Revenge of the Electric Car director Chris Paine attended the “LA Get Off Oil Day&# rally in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 2 2nd, where Chelsea Sexton from Who Killed the Electric Car? Also in attendance and documenting the day was Huffington Post journalist Jennifer Grayson.

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Developing standards for EV charging reliability

Charged EVs

The industry badly needs technical standards to enable charging providers to document, diagnose and repair charging problems in a uniform way. A big component of that is not only documenting the technical environment or the intersection of technical systems, but also training people how to operate in this area. Let’s figure those out.

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Bring Back the EV1 Press Conference

Revenge of the Electric Car

General Motors compounded their financial woes by destroying the EV1 and continued to work with the oil companies to gouge the public. “ documented the EV1 Vigil (Click here to watch segment 4 and segment 9 ). Los Angeles City Council, ret. It’s a dishonest act on the part of General Motors.” said Holden.

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

When it comes to advocacy for Plug-Ins, Stefano Paris (below) has been everywhere and anywhere digitally documenting every key event and then sharing his work on the web site he hosts as his contribution to electrifying our transportation. It’s going to change the world of our Los Angeles and Long Beach ports.

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

Green Car Congress

For example, in Nigeria, Glencore and Glencore’s UK subsidiaries entered into multiple agreements to purchase crude oil and refined petroleum products from Nigeria’s state-owned and state-controlled oil company. According to court documents filed in the District of Connecticut, Glencore Ltd. Gulf Coast High-Sulfur Fuel Oil).

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The Cat Is Still On The Roof – And The Roof! The Roof! The Roof Is On Fire!

Creative Greenius

For the past three months I’ve been working night and day as the Chairman of the South Bay Los Angeles 350 Climate Action Group. You’ll also be finished forever with things like oil changes, tune ups, new air filters and the other maintenance that isn’t necessary with electric cars. Walk the walk why don’t you?