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LA alternative fuel credit

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 6 2013

The Louisiana Department of Revenue issued a final rule December 27 providing an income tax credit for 50 percent of the cost of qualified clean-burning

WA electric car fee

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • January 6 2013

In lieu of fuel taxes, electric vehicle owners in Washington will be required to pay a $100 annual fee at registration renewals due on or after February 1

LAX to eliminate free EV parking

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 6 2013

Los Angeles International Airport announced last week that it would end a free parking incentive offered to electric vehicle owners in March. The program

CA clean cars program

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 6 2013

The Environmental Protection Agency granted California a Clean Air Act waiver December 27 allowing the state to set new standards to control emissions for

Critical infrastructure protection highlighted

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 25 2011

The Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration posted a report September 20 outlining a process that can be used to determine which parts of a region’s critical transportation infrastructure need protection from climate change impacts

CAFE standards forthcoming

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • November 13 2011

The Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are expected to publish the official proposal for the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards this week

Heavy-duty truck standards challenged

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • November 13 2011

Delta Construction Co., Dalton Trucking Inc., Southern California Contractors Association, and California Dump Truck Owners Association filed a petition for review November 4 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit challenging the first greenhouse gas emissions requirements for heavy-duty trucks

Japanese car manufacturing framework determined

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Japan
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  • June 12 2011

A Japanese government-private sector panel decided June 6 on a framework to help strengthen the domestic auto industry’s global competitiveness, aiming to make Japanese safety, fuel efficiency, and environmental standards the core protocols of a United Nations standard-setting forum for global automakers

House to investigate fuel economy standards

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 2 2011

On September 30, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in a letter that the Obama administration may have violated the Administrative Procedure Act in negotiating the increase of the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standard to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025 for model year 2017 through 2025 cars and light trucks

EU announces vehicle efficiency measures

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • European Union
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  • October 2 2011

On September 29, the advocacy group Transport and Environment released a report concluding that cars sold in the European Union are becoming more fuel-efficient, cheaper to run, and less polluting, demonstrating the value of 2008 legislation mandating carbon dioxide emissions from the passenger car fleet cannot average more than 130 gkm by 2015