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California gas vehicle ban faces pushback from 17 states

Teslarati

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.

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CALSTART brief highlights growth of and future opportunity for California’s clean transportation technology industry

Green Car Congress

Make California’s target of 40% greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction by 2030 a legal statute, while reauthorizing and extending Cap and Trade and the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) well beyond 2020. The report offers policymakers three main recommendations: Solidify Targets and Extend Programs to at Least 2030.

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Can Wearables "Testify" Against Their Owners?

Cars That Think

But that next step Ross alluded to, of introducing data's admissibility—its authoritatively attested validity—is another story, in which every case could rest on betting how much legal fact finders, be they judges or laypeople on a jury, are expected to know about how wearables work and how accurate their information is.

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

Green Car Congress

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

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Proposed Changes to Federal EV Tax Credit – Part 4: Chinese-Assembled Vehicles Will Not Be Eligible for Tax Credit

EV Adoption

And Geely-owned Volvo and Polestar may decide to shift assembly of some vehicles from China to the Volvo factory in Ridgeville, South Carolina for example. Or perhaps like BYD and its bus division, they set up factories in the US and try follow the growth of Japanese and South Korean automakers over the last several decades?