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Department of Interior awards initial $560M to 24 states to plug, cap and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells

Green Car Congress

Fifteen states will utilize Initial Grant funding to set up methane measuring capacity while 6 states—including California, Mississippi and West Virginia—have committed to measuring methane before and immediately after remediation. Of states eligible for funding, 22 have been allocated $25 million each in Initial State Grants.

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Tesla has filed a petition with Wisconsin to allow direct car sales

Teslarati

Currently, Wisconsin is just one of many states in which Tesla buyers must drive out of state to purchase and pick up one of the company’s vehicles, due to laws requiring automakers to sell vehicles through a dealership. READ MORE ON DIRECT SALES LAWS: Tesla granted license for direct vehicle sales in Kentucky Across the U.S.,

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Electric Auto Association

The 18-year-old founder of the Arkansas EAA chapter was hooked on EVs at first sight. Spencer Rhoden’s interest in electric vehicles (EVs) began abruptly in his high school engineering class in Benton, Arkansas when he was in ninth grade. “We Nevertheless, convincing them to purchase a Tesla “was a four year ordeal,” he said. “My

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Tesla, Rivian still face complicated direct sales laws across U.S. states

Teslarati

Tesla has managed to side-step direct sales bans in many states through legal loopholes such as leasing-only models, processing purchases as out-of-state transactions, or simply opening stores in exempted tribal territories where the company’s stores will be exempt from dealership mandates.

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Electric bus revolution 

Electric Vehicles India

Rock Region Metropolitan Transit Authority- FTA Low- or No-Emission Grant Program. A total of 49 projects across the country were awarded a share of $182 million in funding through the 2021 FTA Low- or No-Emission Grant program, which supports transit agencies in purchasing or leasing low- or no-emission buses and other transit vehicles. .

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Brightline Brought High-Speed Rail to Florida. Can the Public Sector Follow?

Baua Electric

The project , unlike the one in Florida, whose construction costs have nearly all been paid by Brightline, has received $3 billion in promised federal grants. He had a message for Mr. Edens: We could use one of these in Arkansas. It aims to be Americas first genuine high-speed rail. I ran into them on Brightline to Orlando.

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