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Are Missouri electric-car charging stations like pay phones? Why that's important

Green Car Reports

The Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) believes it can apply the legal framework used to oversee phone booths to public electric-car. In an age of cell phones, the public phone booth no longer has much utility as a tool for communication.

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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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Calumet’s Montana Renewables became the largest SAF producer in North America in Q2

Green Car Congress

In November 2021, Montana Renewables was separated both legally and commercially from Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P., An additional emissions benefit is that the site’s electrical power is physically sourced from the five hydroelectric dams immediately downstream of Montana Renewables’ location on the upper Missouri River.

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Advocating electric in the heartland

Electric Auto Association

Members of Mid-America Electric Auto Association (MAEAA) , straddling KansasCity and stretching into Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, have been active in challenging two pieces of legislation in the Kansas State Legislature, including a 2019 ordinance to level a demand charge on the state’s solar-powered homes.

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ORNL assessment finds >65 GW of untapped hydropower in US rivers and streams

Green Car Congress

Kansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Wyoming led the rest of the country in new stream-reach hydropower potential. The highest potential was identified in the Pacific Northwest Region (32%), followed by the Missouri Region (15%) and the California Region (9%). In total, the undeveloped NSD capacity is 84.7

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Can Wearables "Testify" Against Their Owners?

Cars That Think

In the Missouri case Bartis v. Gallivan White Boyd's Rabb said the healthcare system may actually assist the legal system in establishing the reliability of wearables data as it gets more serious about evaluating it for accuracy and deploying trackers more widely in research and clinical use. Biomet, Inc. ,

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Attorney General files suit against Media Matters over alleged anti-X initiatives

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In a press release , Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey noted that he launched an investigation into Media Matters’ practices after alleged evidence came to light suggesting that the nonprofit was soliciting “donations from Missourians under false pretenses to target X.” Much appreciated! Truly an evil organization.