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California gas vehicle ban faces pushback from 17 states

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According to the St. 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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Plug In America training auto dealers in Eastern Washington

Plug in America

To date, Plug In America has created PlugStar programs in Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, Boston, New Jersey, and St. Our recent evaluation report showed that PlugStar-trained dealers sell four times more EVs than their untrained counterparts and are twice as likely to get five-star customer ratings.

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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

The Truth About Cars

Most accounts of the origin of the Montclair name state that it was derived from the name of the closest affluent town to Ford's Mahwah Assembly plant in New Jersey. The door tag tells us that this car was assembled in St. Louis on November 7, 1963.

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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

Green Car Congress

Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management is repowering two unregulated fishing boats each with a new Tier 3 engine. Louis Clean Cities is replacing six school busses. New Jersey and New York. New Jersey Clean Cities Coalition is repowering seven marine vessels with 13 Tier 3 engines.

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FTA awarding $130M in Low-No grants for zero-emission and low-emission transit buses and facilities

Green Car Congress

The City of Rochester will receive funds to purchase new electric buses for service expansion and related charging infrastructure. The Bi-State Development Agency (Metro Transit) serving the St. Louis region will receive funds to purchase new electric buses to replace aging diesel buses and related charging infrastructure.

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Top 15 Nissan LEAF markets in US in 2013

Green Car Congress

Louis, where the reasons for growth in this “New Wave” market include enthusiastic dealer engagement that results in increased community education and awareness, corporate and university outreach and midwestern pragmatism that appreciates the value equation of an EV.

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US Public Transit Ridership in 2008 At Highest Level in 52 years; 10.7B Trips

Green Car Congress

Light rail systems with double digit ridership in 2008 were located in the following areas: Buffalo (23.9%); Philadelphia (23.3 %); Sacramento (14.4%); Baltimore (13.7%); Minneapolis (12.3%); Salt Lake City (12.3%); the state of New Jersey (10.9%); Denver (10.5%); and Dallas (10.2%). Louis (8.9%); Baltimore (8.7%); and Denver (8.6%).

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