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Ask a Scientist: What’s the Future for Trucks?

Union of Concerned Scientists

School buses that bring kids to school, city buses that serve commuters, garbage and recycling trucks that keep streets clean, 18-wheelers that haul goods: these are all classified as medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Electric trucks, however, dont create any tailpipe emissions. But heavy-duty vehicles can be cleaned up.

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A Busy Legislative Season in California Adds Up to a More Climate Proof Future

Union of Concerned Scientists

Also like a sine graph, Union of Concerned Scientists will keep moving forward no matter what (and backward technically, but I am political science major and way out of my depth here, so let’s pretend they only move forward, give me kudos for an awesome simile, and get to the recap!). that need to be mined for new batteries.

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What’s Up With Water – November 1, 2021

Circle of Blue

In the Nile River basin last week, a political power shift in Sudan could turn up the heat on a long-simmering dispute over a major dam in the region. This hotly contested referendum is focused on the future of electric power in the region. Rhode Island followed in 1987, and was the last state to do so.

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Fossil Fuels Must Go: Re-inventing US Transportation

Union of Concerned Scientists

Together with other modes of transportation, our vehicles emit the most heat-trapping gases in the US economy: 28 percent, followed closely by the electricity sector. In our study, by 2035 all new vehicles sold are either battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) or fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEVs).

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How Major Corporate Fleets Can Drive Responsible and Sustainable EV Battery Supply Chains

Legal Planet

The electric vehicle (EV) market is growing rapidly, but with this growth comes public pressure to ensure supply chains for EV batteries are sustainable. companies operating electric vehicle fleets, the information and recommendations can also benefit other companies involved in the EV supply chain.

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Decarbonizing Transportation Must Come with People-Powered Mobility Justice

Union of Concerned Scientists

New narratives, startups, and mobility experiments were based on great optimism about electric, digital, autonomous, hybrid, micro, or even aerial (drone) mobilities. That means beginning from a mobility justice outlook, as outlined in my book Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes.

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Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 11.26.23

PA Environment Daily

Pursue Your Constitutional Right To A Clean Environment In Pennsylvania House next voting day Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule Senate next voting day Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule Senate next voting day Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule Senate next voting day Dec.

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