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

Union of Concerned Scientists

Primarily, these have focused on the 2007 EPA regulations, which were the first step in the phase-in of diesel engine standards meant to cut particulate emissions by more than 80 percent and smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NO X ) emissions by 90 percent. Source: ERM 2022 ). <mic drop> So, is industry just full of it?

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California Must Extend Zero Emission Vehicle Funding from “AB 8 Fees”

Union of Concerned Scientists

These fees and programs were established with legislation in 2007 and then were extended until 2024 with the passage of Assembly Bill 8 in 2013 (hence the name, “AB 8 fees”). Passing fees in California requires a two-third’s vote from both houses of the legislature, and when vote margins are slim, the politics get tricky.

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The Stream, October 19, 2022: California City Approaches Water Supply Peril in Next Two Months

Circle of Blue

Taylor, a professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. It is Syria’s first outbreak of the waterborne pathogen since 2007. Social and political circumstances in Syria may have aided the outbreak. You can’t just build in high-risk areas indefinitely and expect it to be insurable at an affordable rate.” – Zac J.

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Sounding Green vs Being Green: How to finance sustainability?

HumanNature

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward.

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Frontiers supports the ITRE Committee’s recommendations to promote freedom of scientific research in the EU 

Frontiers

Despite existing declarations and legal precedents, he called for strong political leadership to enshrine these principles in concrete legislation. Science thrives when it transcends political influences and financial barriers. He emphasized the complexity of the issue, necessitating delicate negotiations and compromise.

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Happy new year 2023 !

Edouard Stenger

I started that blog back in 2007 when sustainability was a vague buzzword and climate change a future threat. We have all the technological solutions to slash greenhouse gases emissions and reach a carbon neutral future. All that is lacking is political will to implement such solutions.

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'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance

Corp Watch

Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007). Child Bondage Continues in Indian Cotton Supply Chain by Dr. Davuluri Venkateswarlu (India Committee of the Netherlands, September 2007). June 2007). Smith (Yes! Books, 2003).