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    Official: Massachusetts will distribute happy little EV license plates
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    What, did you expect them to have a Yankees logo on it? Massachusetts' department of transportation this week said that special license plates with a silhouette of a green car with a plug on the back will be available for drivers of hybrids, battery-electric vehicles and plug-in ...

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    Report: NHTSA sued over unintended acceleration probe of 2003 Toyota Prius
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    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was sued by an auto-safety firm over the federal regulator's probe into the possible case of unintended acceleration in a 2003 Toyota Prius, the New York Times said, citing legal documents filed by the firm. Massachusetts-based Safety ...

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    California, Oregon, Massachusetts named clean energy leaders in U.S.
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    Clean Edge's first annual U.S. Clean Energy Leadership Index ranks all 50 states across a spectrum of clean-energy metrics including, but not limited to, technology, policy, capital, total electricity produced, hybrid vehicles on the road, clean-energy ventures and patent activity. West and East ...

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    Renault-Nissan Alliance finds electric car partner in Massachusetts
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    The Nissan Leaf is making a promotional tour around the U.S. and was in Massachusetts yesterday. The people of the commonwealth must have liked what they saw, because the Renault-Nissan Alliance announced a new zero-emission vehicle ...

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    Massachusetts considering raising fuel tax
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    In the next 20 years, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will need to fund a $15 to $19 million gap to maintain its transit system. Since there's no such a thing as a free lunch, Governor Deval Patrick (D) is currently suggesting an increase in the fuel tax of $0.19 per gallon to raise the money. ...

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    Massachusetts revokes ZAP Xebra registrations
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    Prospective ZAP Xebra owners in Mass. take note: your State has just revoked all of the current registrations for the electric three-wheelers. It seems that the State has just come to realize that the machines don't actually qualify as either motorcycles or cars, despite laws regulating ...

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    Registered hybrid vehicles increase 36 percent in nine months in Massachusetts
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    Photo by Wili_Hybrid. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.Massachusetts drivers are voting with their rides. According to the insurance company Travelers of Massachusetts, the number of hybrid drivers in the Bay State rose 36 percent in the last nine months. The numbers, from the state's ...

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    18 states file to force EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions
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    Seventeen states are backing Massachusetts in a petition to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that would force the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Filed one year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the EPA needed to decide on regulating vehicle emissions - a year ...

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    Plymouth Rock Studios to use a hybrid-only fleet with help from Enterprise
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    Plymouth Rock Studios, a film and television Production Campus being developed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, has decided to go green with the rental cars that will undoubtedly be required by the actors, studio execs and visitors. In order to make this happen, they have teamed up with Enterprise ...

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    Massachusetts v. EPA: The Monkey Trial of the century
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    Does the Clean Air Act give the EPA power to regulate greenhouse gases? If so, can the EPA avoid exercising that authority simply because it doesn't want to? These are the two primary questions David Bookbinder, senior attorney for the Sierra Club, wants the U.S. Supreme Court to answer when ...

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