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America’s New Maritime Plan Is Competing for the Wrong Century
The new U.S. Maritime Action Plan, available from the White House Maritime Insights page, is serious policy work. It acknowledges that American commercial shipbuilding has withered to less than 1% of global output and that only a handful of domestic yards can build large oceangoing vessels. It recognizes workforce shortages, … [continued]
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Whether The Endangerment Finding Stays Or Goes Will Be Up To The Supreme Court
Repealing the endangerment finding may tick of a lot of boxes for right wing extremists, but the result could be not what they expect.
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Canada, California, & Europe: Three Ways to Force EV Adoption
Canada has just shifted its electric vehicle policy architecture. Instead of relying on an explicit EV sales mandate, the federal government has moved toward tightening fleet average emissions standards combined with credit trading and trade policy adjustments. On the surface, this looks like a procedural change. In practice, it changes … [continued]
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Purer meth, less pure opioids, more cocaine hit Michigan, testing reveals
Mexican drug cartels are shipping purer forms of meth into rural Michigan, replacing the drugs that were once made in home labs and full of impurities, police and lab testing data shows.
Why Michigan’s rural residents are reluctant to drive electric vehicles
By Bauyrzhan Zhaxylykov
New U-M survey finds only about 5% of rural Michigan residents say they would choose an electric vehicle as their next car. Researchers attribute much of that reluctance to misinformation about the availability of public chargers and the cost of EVs and replacement batteries. The Whitmer administration is pushing to expand electric vehicle use to meet climate and clean energy goals.
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