There’s good and bad news with California’s electric vehicle program
The program is helping to reduce fossil fuel emissions but also exacerbating inequities
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Adoption of electric vehicles is helping California shrink its CO2 emissions. But that electrification is shifting some of the burden of pollution to the state’s most disadvantaged communities.
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