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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air

Union of Concerned Scientists

I’ve written previously about how the truck industry is fighting regulations at the state and federal level with everything they’ve got. One of the scare tactics truck manufacturers have been pushing is the old industry canard of job-killing regulations. Why would truck regulations impact jobs?

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Predictions of IRA’s Success Solidify

Legal Planet

Rhodium reported that “the most rapid investment growth has been in clean technology manufacturing—with annual investment growing 125% year-on-year to $39 billion—and particularly within electric vehicle and solar manufacturing. By 2035, those emissions reductions will be 43-45% below 2004 levels.

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Friend or foe? Machine learning and how it is shaping our lives

Physics World

So asks Will Smith’s Detective Del Spooner of the artificial being Sonny, in a memorable scene from the 2004 film I, Robot. The authors seek to equip the reader with the knowledge necessary to make informed decisions concerning the regulation of the use of ML tools, in what Zerilli and co-authors call the “new algorithmic world order”.

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A Triumph and Disgrace: The Very Slow Road to Banning Asbestos

Union of Concerned Scientists

While this administration does deserve credit for acting on asbestos after years of neglect, it is more accurate to describe the White House as politely showing the door to companies who use what is nicknamed “white asbestos.” The legacy of death and disease from disinformation and “disappeared” information haunts us to this day.

2001 242
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Desalination and Alternative Water Supply and Efficiency

Vermont Law

Seawater desalination is a hopeful technological solution for industry, farmers, and residents that do not want their businesses interrupted by water shortage, drought, and rising cost. coastlines is a much more complex environmental, economical, and political discussion. In 2004, the. While simplistic. Desalination Plant.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. Environmental groups had identified five categories of new information since the 2004 preparation of an EIS that they contended warranted supplemental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

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A Win for Science: EPA Releases Formaldehyde Study the Chemical Industry Tried to Suppress

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2004, the International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that formaldehyde is a human carcinogen, and the US Department of Health and Human Services listed it is as a known human carcinogen in 2011. We know all too well that when decisionmakers compromise on the science for financial or political reasons, we all lose.