Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored? (www.nytimes.com)
The Sky’s the Limit for C.E.O. Pay | With new executive pay disclosures, the big picture is still riches at the top and lagging wages for most of the rank-and-file (www.nytimes.com)
Biden Administration Tightens Mileage Standards to Buoy E.V.s | The new rule requires automakers to achieve an average of 65 miles per gallon across all models by 2031. (www.nytimes.com)
The new standards require American automakers to increase fuel economy so that, across their product lines, their passenger vehicles would average 65 miles per gallon by 2031, up from 48.7 miles today. The average mileage for light trucks, including pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, would have to reach 45 miles per...
Electric Cars Are Suddenly Becoming Affordable (www.nytimes.com)
More efficient manufacturing, falling battery costs and intense competition are lowering sticker prices for battery-powered models to within striking distance of gasoline cars.
U.S. Considers Expanded Nuclear Arsenal, a Reversal of Decades of Cuts (www.nytimes.com)
Denmark’s Prime Minister Is Attacked in Copenhagen Square (www.nytimes.com)
Edit: it seems like the NYT missed the mark on this one....
Businessman Tells Jury He Bribed Senator Menendez With a Mercedes-Benz (www.nytimes.com)
Clarence Thomas, in Financial Disclosure, Acknowledges 2019 Trips Paid by Harlan Crow (www.nytimes.com)
The trips, taken in 2019, were earlier revealed by ProPublica, but it is the first time that Justice Thomas has included them on his financial disclosures.
Biden Expected to Sign Executive Order Restricting Asylum (www.nytimes.com)
The New York State Legislature passed a climate bill that would force polluters to pay into a “cost recovery” fund, but the focus of the session’s last days was on the collapse of congestion pricing. (www.nytimes.com)
I’ll note that the governor has not yet signed the NY climate superfund act
How Governor Hochul Decided to Kill Congestion Pricing in New York (www.nytimes.com)
Judge Strikes Down Florida’s Ban on Transgender Care for Minors (www.nytimes.com)
A federal judge ruled that Florida could not “prohibit transgender minors from receiving specific kinds of widely accepted gender-affirming medical care.”
Electric Cars Are Suddenly Becoming Affordable (www.nytimes.com)
Jeannette Charles, Who Doubled for the Queen, Is Dead at 96 (www.nytimes.com)
You saw her in The Naked Gun, European Vacation, and Goldmember…
Trump Vows to Lower Prices. Some of His Policies May Raise Them. (www.nytimes.com)
Donald J. Trump has not released a detailed economic plan. But three of his key proposals would push prices up, economists say.
Trump’s Energy Guy Talked a Green Game but Now Sells Big Oil Priorities | Doug Burgum, the Republican governor of North Dakota, has stepped into the spotlight as a cheerleader for oil and Trump (www.nytimes.com)
Shrink the Economy, Save the World? Economic growth has been ecologically costly — and so a movement in favor of ‘degrowth’ is growing. (www.nytimes.com)
Biden Administration Tightens Mileage Standards to Buoy E.V.s | The new rule requires automakers to achieve an average of 65 miles per gallon across all models by 2031. (www.nytimes.com)
The new standards require American automakers to increase fuel economy so that, across their product lines, their passenger vehicles would average 65 miles per gallon by 2031, up from 48.7 miles today. The average mileage for light trucks, including pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, would have to reach 45 miles per...
Shrink the Economy, Save the World? Economic growth has been ecologically costly — and so a movement in favor of ‘degrowth’ is growing. (www.nytimes.com)
High Rates and Prices Leave Many Stuck in a Starter Home (www.nytimes.com)
Squeezed by high interest rates and record prices, homeowners are frozen in place. They can’t sell. So first-time buyers can’t buy....
Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them | The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit. (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/10092805...
Car Deals Vanished During the Pandemic. They’re Coming Back. (www.nytimes.com)
For much of the last four years, automakers and their dealers had so few cars to sell — and demand was so strong — that they could command high prices. Those days are over, and hefty discounts are starting a comeback....
In Delhi’s Parched Slums, Life Hangs on a Hose and a Prayer (www.nytimes.com)
Chief Justice Rejects Call for Alito’s Recusal in Jan. 6 Cases After Flag Incidents (www.nytimes.com)
Gift article, no paywall
Philadelphia’s University of the Arts Announces Sudden Closing (www.nytimes.com)
