Western auto supply chain has been linked to labor abuse of Chinese Uyghurs

A new report issued by a team of researchers led by Laura T. Murphy (a professor of human rights and contemporary slavery at the U.K.’s Sheffield Hallam University) has made a disheartening conclusion.

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Operation Safe Driver Week shows speeding is the leading cause of driver citations

During Operation Safe Driver Week - a seven-day stretch of deliberate outreach and enforcement by the CVSA - more than 35,000 commercial motor vehicles and passenger vehicles were pulled over in the U.S. and Canada.

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Trucking industry expressed distaste over federal electronic identifier proposal

The country’s motor carriers and independent truckers have not been shy about their opinion on the potential of a federally-mandated unique electronic identifier placed in large trucks.

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California has a plan and the world is looking to follow it

California’s CALSTART Drive to Zero program aims for 100% of new medium- and heavy-duty vehicle sales to be zero-emission by 2040.

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Labor and environmental supplier audits are often ripe with scams

According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), a global organization that tracks and protects human rights in some 90 countries, the published study “Obsessed with Audit Tools, Missing the Goal” shows that business practices are often misrepresented during these audits.

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Norway and the U.S. are partnering for the “Green Shipping Challenge”

At the COP27 United Nations Climate Change Summit in Egypt this week, Norwegian Prime Minister, Jonah Gaher Støre, and U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry announced the launch of their new project.

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The EU proposes new regulations in regard to the last-generation combustion engines

The European Union has already banned the sales of new combustion engine-powered vehicles by 2035, and now it’s expected that they are tightening that leash.

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The EU & the US are going head-to-head over the Inflation Reduction Act

In the recently-passed IRA bill, the United States is offering tax benefits to those renewable energy companies operating domestically.

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