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Five Important Points About the “SAFE Vehicle Rule”

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transportation sector in 2016 (based on EPA data ). EPA and DOT estimate that “upstream” carbon dioxide emissions from oil production, transportation, refining, and distribution would increase by 159 MMT (over the lifetime of the vehicles produced from MY1979 through MY 2029). California’s Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate).

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In Chicago, Flooding Overwhelmingly Strikes Communities of Color

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In the early 1970s, Chicago embarked on one of the region’s most ambitious and expensive infrastructure projects to date: the Tunnel and Reservoir Project or “Deep Tunnel,” a massive storage system that will be able to hold more than 20 billion gallons of water when it’s finished in 2029. . A Feat of Engineering or “Missed Opportunity”?

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