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Electric Mandates Have California Truckers Charging Overtime
29Dec By adminNo Comments
World

Electric Mandates Have California Truckers Charging Overtime

Dec. 29, 2023 12:52 pm ETCompton, Calif.Electric trucks are supposed to save the world, but they’re wasting Mike Stanley’s time. Mr. Stanley, a longtime trucker whose rectangular beard flows down to his chest, now leads operations in the main Los Angeles office of IMC, a Tennessee-based drayage trucking company that carries cargo to and from U.S. ports and rail yards. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Lufthansa Group extends Green Fares to selected long-haul routes – Business Traveller
2Dec By adminNo Comments
Travel

Lufthansa Group extends Green Fares to selected long-haul routes – Business Traveller

Lufthansa Group has further extended its carbon offsetting Green Fares, with the option now available on 12 long-haul routes. The group first announced plans for the fare option in August last year, which allows passengers to purchase a ticket which includes the offsetting of their individual flight-related CO2 emissions, along with other benefits including additional status miles and a free rebooking option. The initiative was originally launched as a pilot project, before being rolled out across the group’s European and North African routes in February this year. The fares will now be tested on the following long-haul routes with group carriers Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and SWISS: Zurich – Los Angeles (ZRH – LAX) Frankfurt – Miami (FRA – MIA) Sao Paulo – Zurich (...
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‘Net Zero’ Fails the Cost-Benefit Test
29Nov By adminNo Comments
Business

‘Net Zero’ Fails the Cost-Benefit Test

Nov. 29, 2023 12:52 pm ETWorld leaders are gathering in Dubai for another climate conference, which will no doubt yield heady promises along the lines of the 2015 Paris climate agreement to keep the global temperature’s rise “well below” 2 degrees Celsius and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees. But they’d be wiser not to. New research shows how extravagant climate promises are far more wasteful than useful.A new special issue of the journal Climate Change Economics contains two ground-breaking economic analyses of policies to hold global temperatures to 1.5 degrees and its practical political interpretation, mandates to reach net zero, usually by 2050. Though more than 130 countries, including most of the globe’s big emitters, have passed or are considering laws mandating net-zero ...
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