California hits back as CARB takes legal action against truck brands

  • November 2, 2025
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AI-generated Gavin Newsom; via ChatGPT. Following a lawsuit brought against the California Air Resources Board (CARB) by major heavy truck manufacturers over California’s emissions requirements, CARB has struck back with fresh lawsuit of its own alleging that the manufacturers violated the terms of the 2023 Clean Truck Partnership agreement to sell cleaner vehicles. Daimler Truck […]

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In Defense of ‘Groupthink’

  • November 2, 2025
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The Trump administration is by its own account devoted to stamping out obesity, cancer, and many other chronic diseases in America. But its public-health officials are also attuned to a very different sort of threat: a faulty cast of mind. “Groupthink is the fundamental problem,” said National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya in May. […]

New national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms

  • November 2, 2025
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Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports. But, unlike similar laws that have been proposed in the US, this new law doesn’t just apply to new construction – existing lots will have to comply as well! South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, […]