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Sierra Club Lawyer to Present Oral Argument to Protect Billions in EV Charging for America’s Highways

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Coalition of Nonprofits Seeks to Ensure Access to EV Charging Funds Across the Country Today, U.S. District Court Judge Tana Lin in the Western District Court of Washington will hear oral argument in State of Washington v. U.S. Department of Transportation—a challenge brought by 21 states to the Trump administration’s unlawful freeze … [continued]

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Trump EPA Finalizes Weak Rule to Reduce Dangerous Air Pollution from New Gas-Burning Power Plants, Ignores Health Benefits and Lives Saved from Pollution Reduction

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The Trump EPA has unveiled a final rule under the Clean Air Act that revises emission limits for dangerous nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution from new gas-burning turbines used in power plants and industrial facilities. Emissions of NOx form smog and soot, which is harmful to human health and linked to serious heart … [continued]

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How Early Climate Leadership Locked Germany Into The Wrong Hydrogen Bet

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Germany’s hydrogen pipeline from nowhere to nowhere did not emerge from ignorance or indifference. It emerged from good intentions formed early, when climate risk was clear and credible solutions were scarce. In the 1990s and early 2000s, jurisdictions that accepted climate science faced a thin menu of options. Wind and … [continued]

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CATL Batteries Stand Out For Minimal Degradation In EVs And Long-Term Energy Storage Systems

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Morgan Stanley decided to do some research on battery degradation in China. It got data from ride-hailing firms on 12 different EV models — 100 cars in total — and measured how much their battery capacity declined. The cars showed considerable differences in battery degradation. The company also studied degradation … [continued]

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Europe Built Hydrogen Infrastructure Instead of the Power Grid It Needed

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The most important policy lesson from the 400 km European hydrogen backbone segment with no suppliers and no offtakers—a pipeline from nowhere to nowhere—I wrote about recently is that decarbonization succeeds or fails on demand realism, not technological aspiration. Europe knew, as early as the late 2000s, that deep electrification … [continued]

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