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Dependable Supply Chain Services deploys Orange EV electric trucks as step towards zero-emission freight facility

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More than 50% of vehicles purchased through the program are operating in communities disproportionately burdened by harmful air pollutants. Projects include affordable housing, renewable energy, public transportation, zero-emission vehicles, environmental restoration, more sustainable agriculture, recycling and more.

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Safety Institute: auto manufacturers fail to meet NHTSA deadline for replacement airbags

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Many manufacturers have failed to deliver sufficient replacement airbags to vehicles that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) deemed at the highest risk of a rupture, despite a 31 March agency deadline to do so. The analysis, conducted by Quality Control Systems Corp.

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US Transportation Secretary LaHood issues “Blueprint for Ending Distracted Driving”; $2.4M for California, Delaware pilot projects

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Challenges the auto industry to adopt new and future guidelines for technology to reduce the potential for distraction on devices built or brought into vehicles. In 2010, 32,885 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in the United States—the lowest number of fatalities since 1949 (30,246 fatalities in 1949). This was a 2.9%

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