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Mar 20 2024
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Maine regulators considering adoption of California EV use standards
Maine environmental regulators are set to decide whether the state will join a growing number of states adopting new standards designed to grow the use of electric vehicles.The rules, which originated in California, would require an increasing percentage of new light-duty vehicles to be zero emission vehicles every year. The new standards would start with 51% in 2028 and grow to 82% by 2032.
Fox News (Online News)Mar 20 2024
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Maine Pulls the Plug on California-Inspired Electric Car Mandates
‘If market conditions and infrastructure were in a place, Maine consumers would make this choice on their own without government coercion.’ Maine, a vastly rural state that mingles a traditional Yankee life of hunting, logging, lobstering, and living off the grid with an annual influx of 15 million tourists—most who arrive by car—will not be joining 12 other states in phasing out gas-powered
The Epoch TimesMar 23 2024
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Hiker missing in California found dead in Los Padres National Forest
A hiker missing from the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in Carmel Valley, California, was found dead Friday at the base of a waterfall in the Ventana Wilderness inside Los Padres National Forest. Caroline Meister, 30, was a resident at the abbey, the oldest Japanese Soto Zen Buddhist monastery in the U.S. She left for a hike in the Ventana Wilderness Monday and never returned, the Monterey
Washington TimesMar 21 2024
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In conservative Livingston County, political differences are deeper than they appear
BRIGHTON, Mich. – The first thing many people see when they drive into Livingston County from the Detroit Metro area is a large billboard with the American flag and an eagle staring proudly down at them. It’s easy to assume that this image sums up politics in the county, but the reality is more complicated. The political attitudes in Livingston County seem unambiguous - in the 2020
Detroit Free PressMar 23 2024
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River Forest woman found dead near California hiking trail
A former River Forest woman was found dead near a hiking trail in central California on Friday, four days after she was reported missing. A Monterey County search and rescue team found the body of Caroline Meister, 30, at the base of a steep waterfall after she left a Zen center in Carmel Valley on Monday morning for a hike, according to the Monterey County sheriff’s office. She was reported
Chicago Sun-TimesMar 13 2024
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Permanent water restrictions to be rolled out in California
California is planning to revise water restrictions for suppliers to help the state deal with shortages resulting from climate change. On Tuesday, the State Water Resources Control Board released a revised set of rules, known collectively as Making Conservation a California Way of Life, that would allow some communities to use more water than under the original regulations. Formerly, a slew of
NewsweekMar 25 2024
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Millions of bizarre, blue sea creatures wash up on Northern California shores
Going to the beach in Northern California is a little more, let’s say, “interesting” this spring, as the sand in many places has been replaced with squishy, electric-blue carpets of jellylike sea creatures. Sightings of the bizarre animals, known as Velella velella or “by-the-wind sailors,” run as far north as Tomales Bay and south as Monterey. “Millions dead down here in Monterey,” one person
East Bay TimesMar 26 2024
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Danica Roem urges trans political hopefuls 'be vulnerable enough to be visible'
On the morning of her 24th birthday in 2008, Danica Roem woke up in a Charlottesville K-Mart parking lot under a fleece blanket she’d purchased from the store because she couldn’t afford a room in the Econolodge while her band was in the city recording its first album. Sixteen years later, the former death metal frontwoman was invited back to the city as one of the distinguished speakers at
Daily ProgressMar 25 2024
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U.S. on Shin Bet's warning to Israeli in California: 'We oppose intimidating individuals'
HaaretzMar 23 2024
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Border experts: Immigration politics over humanitarian crisis sparked tragedy
The tragedy inside a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in March 2023 was sparked long before the deadly fire, border lawmakers and immigration experts said. “It showed the consequences that could come from immigration politics on both sides of the border,” said Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight with the Washington Office on Latin America, a research and human
El Paso Times