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Archive for year: 2017

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Landon Hall

No, improved gas mileage doesn’t put car ownership out of reach for low-income Americans

March 8, 2017
Source: Consumerist
/in Economy, What's The Buzz lhall /by Landon Hall

Automakers are currently asking the Trump administration to rescind federal fuel economy standards, claiming that these rules make cars more expensive and put car ownership out of reach for low-income Americans. However, a new report contends that the data doesn’t support this argument.

Landon Hall

China considers dialing back or delaying electric car quota

March 8, 2017
Source: Bloomberg Markets
/in Environment, What's The Buzz lhall /by Landon Hall

China is considering dialing back or delaying proposed measures aimed at pushing automakers to produce more electric vehicles, after industry feedback that the targets are overly ambitious.

Landon Hall

Pope Francis was offered a Tesla Model S or a Nissan Leaf; he chose the Leaf

March 8, 2017
Source: Electrek
/in What's The Buzz lhall /by Landon Hall

While Catholicism advocates to end poverty, the Vatican is known for its excessive luxury. The current Pope has been known for not indulging, or at least less so than previous Popes, in the luxurious lifestyle.

Landon Hall

The cheap resource that worries oil shale drillers

March 8, 2017
Source: The Wall Street Journal
/in What's The Buzz lhall /by Landon Hall

The rising cost of fracking sand shows how drillers of oil and gas are facing rising costs and capacity constraints

Landon Hall

China to replace 70,000 gasoline cabs with electric cars

March 7, 2017
Source: Green Car Reports
/in What's The Buzz lhall /by Landon Hall

The country that is now the world’s largest new-car market already offers generous purchase incentives for electric cars bought by individuals.

Landon Hall

EPA to reopen 2022-2025 auto-emission rule decision: report

March 7, 2017
Source: Green Car Reports
/in Environment, What's The Buzz lhall /by Landon Hall

According to numerous recent reports, the EPA is expected to reopen the commenting period for vehicle-emission rules it finalized in January, more than a year ahead of schedule.

Landon Hall

Hacked: Energy industry’s controls provide an alluring target for cyber attacks

March 7, 2017
Source: Houston Chronicle
/in Economy, What's The Buzz lhall /by Landon Hall

As national attention focuses on Russian cyberattacks aimed at influencing the last presidential election, oil and gas companies face increasingly sophisticated hackers seeking to steal trade secrets and manipulate industrial sensors and operations.

Landon Hall

Southern California clean-air plan up for vote

March 7, 2017
Source: The Associated Press
/in What's The Buzz lhall /by Landon Hall

Southern California regulators on Friday approved a 15-year blueprint for cleaning up the region’s smoggy air as it faces a looming federal deadline and a troubling rise in lung-searing days.

Landon Hall

Air quality data shows pollution from Torrance refinery far higher than others in Southern California

March 6, 2017
Source: (Torrance) Daily Breeze
/in What's The Buzz lhall /by Landon Hall

Over the past four years, the Torrance refinery has released more pollution into the air via unplanned flaring than the six other oil refineries in Southern California combined, according to data just released by the region’s air quality watchdog.

Landon Hall

Polluted environments kill 1.7 million children a year: WHO

March 6, 2017
Source: Reuters
/in What's The Buzz lhall /by Landon Hall

A quarter of all global deaths of children under five are due to unhealthy or polluted environments including dirty water and air, second-hand smoke and a lack or adequate hygiene, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

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