US issues stiff EPA emission limits for vehicles

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A Electrify America Charging Station for electric vehicles is seen at Westfield Old Orchard shopping center in Skokie, Illionois, Jan. 29, 2023. 

On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced that by 2032, two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the US would need to be electric in order for auto manufacturers to be in compliance. And, Nigerian activist Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode’s new book, “The Stolen Daughters of Chibok,” documents the April 2014 kidnapping of northern Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram. Also, Bengali Muslims all over India face discrimination. Plus, the last stop of a 9,000-mile butterfly migration.


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