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Which Way, L.A.?

Is California Killing the Electric Car…Again?

Hosted by Warren Olney Mar. 27, 2008
California’s Air Resources Board prepared today to reduce its demand for zero emission vehicles and it’s the fifth cut in the mandate since 1990. On Reporter’s Notebook, today’s LA Times carries a front page story admitting the paper used false documents to imply that associates of hip-hop artist Sean “Diddy” Combs robbed and shot rapper Tupac Shakur.
California’s Air Resources Board prepared today to reduce its demand for zero emission vehicles and it’s the fifth cut in the mandate since 1990. On Reporter’s Notebook, today’s LA Times carries a front page story admitting the paper used false documents to imply that associates of hip-hop artist Sean “Diddy” Combs robbed and shot rapper Tupac Shakur.

From this Episode:

Will California kill the electric car – again?

in 1990, California’s Air Resources Board demanded that, by 2003, 10% of the automobiles in the state be zero emission vehicles. That would have meant 100,000 cars per...

10 min

The LA Times Apologizes for Tupac Story

Last Wednesday’s Los Angeles Times ran a story that first appeared on its website two days before. It implied that hip hop artist Sean "Diddy" Combs was behind the...

15 min

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Warren Olney

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Katie Cooper, Christian Bordal

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