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Tesla and GM sign on to use supply chain emissions database

Teslarati

Vice President Al Gore at the COP28 climate conference this weekend. The database, dubbed Climate TRACE, was created by Gore’s global climate coalition in an attempt to keep close track of supply chain emissions, according to a report from Fortune.

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Ex-Tesla policy head becomes executive of Zero Emission federal coalition 

Teslarati

The Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA) appointed ex-Tesla policy head Albert Gore as its new Executive Director. Gore will be taking over ZETA’s Executive Director position from Joe Britton. Gore worked at Tesla for approximately 6 years and 11 months, from September 2015 to July 2022. He was Tesla’s Eastern U.S.

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Al Gore Joins Call for Electric Cars

Plugs and Cars

Buried in Al Gore's challenge today calling for a 100% renewable electric grid within ten years is a call for plug-in electric cars. An electric vehicle fleet would sharply reduce the cost of driving a car, reduce pollution, and increase the flexibility of our electricity grid. Tags: plug-in cars al gore battery electric car.

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Tighter EPA emissions rules for big trucks don’t mandate EVs

Baua Electric

Heavy-duty and medium-duty trucks make up only 10% of the vehicles on the road but create 28% of transportation-related climate change pollutants, along with 45% of nitrogen oxides and 57% of fine particulate matter from on-road vehicles, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), which said the rule “falls short.”

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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

Cars That Think

A new systematic review by The Lancet found that “people living in e-waste exposed regions had significantly elevated levels of heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants,” and it advocated for “novel cost-effective methods for safe recycling operations … to ensure the health and safety of vulnerable populations.”

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The Greenius Goes Into Overdrive

Creative Greenius

The EPN has been doing the job our local governments have failed to do – they’re educating the public about the scientific facts about energy, about transportation, about waste, about water, about pollution and most of all about climate change. They’re telling the truth and they’re speaking that truth to power without fear.

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Driving on sunshine

Plug in America

No pollution, well-to-wheels. Though he’d previously been too busy to focus on environmental concerns, he went solar in 2013 after seeing Al Gore’s global warming red-alert, “An Inconvenient Truth,” then bought a used Nissan Leaf two years later. And with the solar panels, I was driving on sunshine. .

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