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California gas vehicle ban faces pushback from 17 states

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Louis Post-Dispatch , the Missouri State Attorney General, along with Ohio, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia have sued to prevent CARB from banning new ICE vehicles after 2035. According to the St.

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Ford dealers are opting out of Model e EV certification program

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These changes come amidst challenges for the automaker, such as a legal battle about the EV initiative that it lost last week in Illinois. Due to the legal issue, Ford implemented a series of updates to its EV certification program. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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AK Steel to purchase Precision Partners Holding Company; tooling and stamping for automotive

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Precision Partners is headquartered in Ontario, and employs more than 1,000 employees, including about 300 engineers and skilled tool makers, across eight plants in Ontario, Alabama and Kentucky. Credit Suisse is acting as financial advisor to AK Steel and Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP is serving as its legal advisor.

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Ford, Ford Credit introduce sustainable financing framework prioritizing EV, clean production, community investments

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As examples, Ford’s new advanced campuses in Tennessee and Kentucky will be designed to have as minimal an impact as possible—and even to generate beneficial effects—on the surrounding environment.

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UAW talks debase as cut-off date nears

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“The proposal Ford offered us is garbage,” stated Nicholas Brooks, a member of UAW Native 862 at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant. “I can’t believe they want to cut some of our profit sharing, cut the sign-on bonus down, and they definitely need to be helping the retirees more.”

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Study finds ride-sharing companies biggest contributors to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco

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Researchers from the University of Kentucky and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority have determined that, contrary to the concept and vision, transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft are the biggest contributor to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco.

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3 Duke Energy subsidiaries plead guilty to 9 criminal violations of Clean Water Act; $102M settlement

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Under the plea agreement, both Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress, must certify that they have reserved sufficient assets to meet legal obligations with respect to its coal ash impoundments within North Carolina, obligations estimated to be approximately $3.4 million tons of coal ash); Kentucky (approximately 1.5