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Tesla round two: Carmaker will fight to change Texas law in 2015
2014-12-08 22:08:10| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
The Palo Alto, California-based company can't sell its 100-percent electric vehicles in Texas because the state law requires new vehicles be sold at franchise dealerships. Tesla bucks the trend of gasoline-powered vehicles, selling its cars directly to the end buyer, thus skipping the middle man.
Oil Declines From 5-Year Low on Signs U.S. Taking Fight to OPEC
2014-12-08 05:05:35| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude extended declines from the lowest close in more than five years amid speculation that U.S. oil producers will fight OPEC for market share. Futures dropped as much as 1.8 percent in New York and 1.9 percent in London.
Paris mayor wants to ban diesel cars by 2020 to fight pollution
2014-12-07 13:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The mayor of Paris called for diesel cars to be banned from the French capital by 2020 and said pedestrian-only neighborhoods should be created in the city center as part of a plan to fight pollution. Anne Hidalgo told the Journal de Dimanche in an interview published on Sunday that her anti-pollution plan would be discussed at a city council meeting on December 9. "I want to see the end of diesel in Paris by 2020," she said, adding that there exceptions could be made for low-income car owners...
Decade-long fight over electricity in south county comes to a head
2014-12-07 07:32:11| Energy - Topix.net
Red Nutt, vice mayor of Ripon, was the fifth voting member. He died last month. A replacement is expected to be named by the San Joaquin County City Selection Committee one day before this week's crucial hearing.
Mapping Rain Forests to Fight Climate Change
2014-12-06 12:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: Almost a century ago, Russian botanist N.I. Vavilov was traveling the world in search of new species when he identified why equatorial rain forests are so critical to the Earths future: Theyre the source-pool for 90 percent of the planets biodiversity. Rain forests have been the focus of global conservation efforts ever since. Today, as climate negotiators convene for the United Nations Climate Summit 2014 in Lima, Perua country that is dead-center in that genetically rich belt of land around...
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