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reasonsforhope · 1 year

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“A Nigerian mom found out the hard way that jaundice is still a dangerous disease in Africa—but now she’s putting an end to the infant disease with her new tech startup, making solar-powered cribs.

After her traumatic experience with jaundice as a new mother, Virtue Oboro pivoted 180° in her professional life, in an effort to help prevent the terrifying situation from befalling other moms.

Oboro’s son, Tombra, was just 48 hours old when he had to be rushed to the NICU, suffering from a build-up of bilirubin, which causes yellow skin and can lead to permanent damage or even death.

The treatment is fairly simple... blue-light phototherapy.

Virtue’s hospital had no phototherapy devices, so Tombra had to receive a risky emergency blood transfusion. Her son would make a full recovery, but Virtue was changed by the experience.

“I felt like some of the things I experienced could have been avoided,” the visual designer told CNN. “I thought, is there something I could do to make the pain less for the babies and the mothers?”

What could a visual designer do? She designed the Crib A’Glow and named her new company Tiny Hearts.

The portable, deployable phototherapy unit is powered by the sun, and costs one-sixth the price of a normal phototherapy crib—and is manufactured in her homeland of Nigeria.

Virtue’s husband had some experience working with solar panels before, so he lent a hand to the visual designer, who was busy navigating the unknown waters of a new profession. She worked with a pediatrician through the design process to ensure all the details would benefit the tiny babies.

Two years ago, Crib A’Glow picked up a $50,000 grant from Johnson & Johnson through the Africa Innovation Challenge, and the Crib A’Glow can now be found in 500 hospitals across Nigeria and neighboring Ghana. Already it has been used on 300,000 babies.

Virtue, who has also become a 2022 awardee for The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, says a further 200,000 babies were saved from jaundice by deploying the cribs to rural areas—no hospitals or electricity needed.” -via Good News Network, 3/9/22

#nigeria #nicu #jaundice #babies #child mortality #ghana #solar panels #phototherapy #medical news #healthcare #healthcare access #infant mortality #cw infant death

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gemini-forest · 8 months

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CW: infant death, miscarriage

We know Jayden had a miscarriage and didn't handle it well. But how did Leo handle it?

CW: Grief

Yeah he really didn't handle it well either. He was morning for a while in private. He didn't want Jayden or really anyone to see him cry.

But he cried for a good long while.

#ask gem #Sorry I'm Late AU #sil au #rottmnt Sorry I'm Late au #cw: miscarriage #cw: grief #cw: infant death #cw: death

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buttercup-barf · 6 months

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I bet you one thumbs up emoji you can’t draw Bugbo from the popular animated YouTube series Bugbo 🥱

Bet.

Bugbo is considered a digital horror piece of media, right...? I guess it's topical to post it near Halloween. (More doodles and a possible mild horror warning under the cut.)

So how many people headcanon Gradient Joe to know sign language? I can't be the only one.

These two images side-by-side are so funny to me. Tumblr sexyman material and Hyper-Realistic Blood-Eyed Bugbo. I'm pretty sure these are the two main points of fixation for this series' fans - the twinks and the horror aspect.

#bugbo #bugbo series #gerbo #bugbo gerbo #gradient joe #the first couple tags here look like i'm an infant trying to communicate lmao #horror cw #horror tw #horror #purely because of that last bugbo image. ooga-booga!!

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theysangastheyslew · 2 years

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Idk why I found this post from @mello-jello so damn funny but I did so… here you go. Couldn’t decide on an ending so you can choose your preferred one below the cut :3

A little ways down the road

#levihan #hange zoe #levi ackerman #onyankopon #aot #snk #snk fanart #not the comic i was planning to work on oops #le me #i maed dis #132 who?#cw: burns #apparently bby monkeys are called infants which having worked w/ human bbies for years it makes a lot of sense 🤔

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sleepyfan-blog · 2 days

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Author’s Note: Part two of Baby Primarchs being raised by the Emperor AU! Previous. Next

Warnings: dehumanization of primarchs, dehumanization of infants, manipulation

Tagged: @egrets-not-regrets

Summary: Erda inquires about the visions that two of the baby primarchs were so distressed by. The Emperor explains, after some cajoling.

"Neoth it's been a week and a half, and you've yet to tell me what the contents of the visions that Eight and Nine had that caused you to decide to pull all of the primarchs from their incubation chambers until they were infants, like we had previously agreed. Don't think I haven't noticed the increase in security in and around the gene labs, as well as the entirety of the palace as a whole. You're preparing for something. Let me help. The only psyker stronger than I am on Terra is you. But I can't prepare for what I don't know is coming." Erda demanded, staring directly up at Neoth, hands on her hips as the two of them were overseeing the final touches being done to the Primarchs' nursery. All twenty of them would be sleeping in a single, heavily fortified room within the Imperial palace. The room in question was itself a secret known to herself, Amar, Neoth... And the entirety of Neoth's hand-crafted Custodes. This room had been repurposed from a large storage room to a multi-bed play and sleeping room. This room was positioned within one hallway of the throne room and Erda's own personal rooms. The room had one active Gellar field protecting it at all times, and had two separate back-up Gellar fields ready to activate, should the first fail or waver for the slightest moment.

Neoth briefly looked at her before staring at the last of the preparations - several of his younger Custodes were carefully setting up the last of the infant beds with deft and steady hands, though the small furniture looked almost comical in their large hands. He sighed before saying "If we left them to continue to grow within their maturation pods, within a year... Chaos would take them."

Erda froze for a moment, her eyes widening in horror and confusion "But... But how, the Gellar fields keep The Enemy at bay!"

Neoth looked down at her, a troubled expression furrowing his brows "The visions were overlapping and unclear, but The Enemy sent agents that destroyed the Gellar fields protecting their pods, and -" He hesitated, looking searchingly at her. He still does not see or feel any Chaotic taint within her. "... For reasons I do not know, you were the one to rip open a warp portal, and cast the primarchs into that infinite abyss. You were trembling with rage and sorrow, and many died in the ensuing rampage of The Enemy's servants rampaging around the palace, as the gene-labs were collapsed as reality temporarily collapsed."

"I... I would never cast our beautiful children away! Especially not into the Warp, the domain of The Enemy, to corrupt their souls and twist their brilliant little minds to cruelty... If they wouldn't kill our children out of spite." Erda spluttered, taking a half-step back in shock.

Part of him wanted to correct her, remind her that the Primarchs weren't their children, not truly. They were weapons, tools for galactic conquest and to bring the disparate colonies of humanity back under one unified banner. The rebuke was on his tongue, but caution stayed him. He would let her cogitate on her future self's potential betrayal - let the utter foolishness of such an act, no matter how well-intentioned she may have thought it to be in a moment of wrathful sorrow, before reminding her what the Primachs, which they had spent over a thousand years in genetics research, testing and experimenting, in order to create. "I am glad to hear that, Erda. I cannot say what drove you in their visions to such an act... But-" He deliberately hesitates, looking her in the eyes before letting his gaze sweep around the room, to the twenty-one bassinets arranged in neat if uneven rows around the room "I... Have a request to make of you, Erda."

She tensed at that, trying to catch his gaze "What... What request is that, Neoth?"

He lets her catch his gaze. He slowly reaches out to her physically, one hand coming to rest lightly on his hand, the other cupping her cheek. "You are a dear companion of mine, Erda. In these long, endless days and nights, and your keen mind and insights have been invaluable beyond words. I see you now, untouched by The Enemy, and I want to believe that-" Carefully, gently now. A light squeeze to her shoulder, allow his eyes to soften as his face shifts to a look of worry that he does genuinely feel. His gilded companions shift a little, ready and listening for the command.

Good.

Hopefully he won't need to give it, but for the future he sees for mankind, and the necessary sacrifice and bloodshed that must be spilled for it to become a reality, he cannot allow his Primarchs out of his grasp. For eleven of them to become corrupted in one way or another by The Enemy or filthy xenos... No. He will not allow that to happen. He's keenly aware of the power she wields. Which is why this conversation is happening here, well before The Enemy's servants invade the palace and far from where his little generals are slumbering in their pods. "- whatever reasons your potential future self did that, you believed it was for the best. But the glimpses into their futures that I saw... Seventeen lands on a world of chaos worshippers and is slowly corrupted from decanting. Eight lands in a world of literal - and figurative - darkness and is forced to survive on it-his own, killing animals to feast on their flesh. Twelve is beset by Xenos upon decanting, and is then thrown into gladiator pits, with neural implants forced into his brain that torture him into madness. Fourteen lands on a world ruled by necromancers, found by the dread lord of that world and cruelly experimented on until it-he escapes. Twenty-A and Twenty-O are separated during the warp trip and Twenty-O is raised by pirates. Sixteen-"

she raises a hand and pressed her fingers to his lips, shaking her head, tears threatening to fall from her eyes "Please... No more. I can guess what you are going to ask of me. You want me to leave the Primarch project? Perhaps even leave the palace entirely. To avoid whatever temporary madness, or Enemy-fueled temptation I somehow fall for, yes? There is much I can do outside of the palace. Or would you rather I leave Terra entirely? I can assist in dealing with the tech-priests of Mars, or the Jovian shipyards."

Neoth kept his face and body posture gentle, regretful, though he allowed a small smile to lift the corners of his lips. "That I am, I am glad that you understand why I am asking this of you. Which would you prefer? To interact with the tech-priests, or wrangle the disparate forces of the Jovian shipyards? For security purposes, I would not be able to inform you of their growth and development until they are ready to be introduced to Terra and the Sol system at large. For their own protection."

"I... Of course, that makes sense, though I will demand that you take plenty of pictures and keep a log of how each of them grow and develop! Despite not being able to be there for their childhoods, I still want to have some evidence of them growing into the strong, handsome beings I know they will one day become. I would rather deal with the Jovian shipyards and deal with the Negotiator clans, rather than the worshippers of the Omnisiah. No offense meant, Neoth." Erda decided, a small and teasing smile appearing on her face.

Neoth rolled his eyes and huffed, grumbling "While it's convenient they decided I am their Omnisiah, it is not something that I encourage them. Of course I will be having their growth and development well documented by trusted people, which I will share with you once they are ready." The promise came easily to his lips. Whether or not he kept that promise depended on whether or not Erda turned to the Enemy in the ensuing years or not.

"Very well. I’ll start to pack." Erda responded with a nod "I should be ready to leave by the end of the day."

Neoth hummed, nodding and said "I'll have Constantin help you pack, and see you on your way to the shipyards."

She chuckled a little and swatted at him playfully "As if that boy doesn't have enough to do! You don't need to have him fussing over me while I pack my things."

"I insist. He's currently at loose ends, and you know the mischief he can get up to when bored, Idle hands and all that." He responded, keeping his voice and body posture light and playful.

"Oh, alright. Send him to my rooms, and I'll get packing. Don't bully Malcador too much! Goodness knows that boy is entirely too serious as it is. Or Constantin! The lad thinks the galaxy of you." Erda hummed before she headed off.

"I know. I'll keep that in mind, Erda." Neoth responded, suppressing any wayward emotions behind the mask of calm he was projecting. It wouldn't be a true victory until she was off Terra.

Six hours later, and he got the confirmation from Constantin that Erda was well on her way to the Jovian shipyards, none the wiser of the two shadow keepers sent on the same ship to monitor her and report back to him.

#my writing #warhammer 30k #cw: manipulation #cw: dehumanization of infants #cw: dehumanization of primarchs #god emperor of mankind #erda #he's a bastard man. I will die on this hill

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fanby-fckry · 15 days

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You know what gets me about the whole, ‘Niffty is a child because she’s short and flat-chested with a big eye and occasionally has childish mannerisms’ thing?

Aside from the difference of having 2 big eyes instead of 1, you just described me.

I’m a grown-ass adult. I’m 25. I’m 4’11” with A cups (although I’d really rather not even have those, so I wear a sports bra or bind and wind up looking even flatter most of the time).

I have ADHD, and possibly autism. I personify objects like blankets or stuffed animals. I sing to myself, I fidget and stim, I sometimes struggle with telling what is/isn’t a joke or taking things literally.

I’m playing catch-up on learning basic skills like cooking and cleaning because I was neglected by one parent and overly sheltered by the other. I struggle with completing tasks on time or doing them without very specific instructions.

All these things look like childish behaviors in the wrong light.

I can very easily imagine myself being described as ‘uwu sweet child, can’t do anything by themself, needs to be taken care of, so innocent, so pure, literally baby, don’t ship them they’re so child-coded,’ if I was a fictional character.

Again. I’m 25.

I don’t need or want to be infantalized, and when I see people saying this shit about Niffty (a grown-ass, 22 year old woman who happens to be short, flat chested, big-eyed, and a little childish) I can’t help but think:

Wow. If that’s what they think of her, then what do they think of me?

#fanby’s fuckery #hazbin hotel #niffty #saneism cw #ableism cw #<- infantalizing ND behavior is ableism #discourse cw

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ikemenomegas · 8 months

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Getou and Kids

Omega!Getou Suguru x Alpha!Reader

replying to this ask: So, can I please have a request for Omega Suguru? How does he behave around kids? We know that he basically adopted two girls, but had he ever wanted to have biological kids? Some of headcanons ❤ Love your work ❤

c/w: omegaverse, mentions of male pregnancy

There's a little bit of irony between Satoru and Suguru's "parenting styles". As in neither of them are good at it, but Satoru puts up too many boundaries with his adopted children and Suguru puts up too few. However, Satoru's kids are able to discern what he will do, call him by his first name, and have some sense of his ethics, versus what little we see of Mimiko and Nanako, they're devoted but Suguru likely treats them to one of the masks he shows to most people.

Around children in general, Suguru is sweet. When they're not his so any pressure of discipline or dealing with them long-term doesn't fall on his shoulders and attempting to make a good impression on people is a second nature, so parents tend to like him.

With his own kids, he's generally the more permissive parent. Without Alpha around, he spoils Mimiko and Nanako rotten and doesn't push their training because he thinks he needs to take on the "protector" role all on his own and he understandably doesn't want them to become sorcerers. He was very young when he found them, and he tried to help them have a "normal life", even though they weren't normal children. It sort of backfires on him later, but the girls grew up knowing that they were loved by someone who would kill to keep them safe so there's that.

Suguru could happily stay home all day, and then the next day, and the next day and the next… as long as the people he likes show up at home once in a while he never feels the need to go out haha. The power of a super introvert. This is worse after he defects because he also hates going out among normal people. The girls drag him out to play games, go get food, go to amusement parks or other attractions. He's attentive to their needs so it's never like they're out of groceries etc, but he hates going out for normal stuff and as soon as he's able never steps into anything as mundane as a store unless the kids beg him for it. That's why the girls grew up so spoiled, Suguru went out of his way to keep them away from normal human things.

When his Alpha comes with him, together they do a better job of balancing the girls' upbringing. Suguru encourages Alpha to became more like a parent and less like a mentor, and they talk through a lot of Alpha's and Suguru's own trauma with the sorcerer mentors they interacted with before enrolling in the technical college so they don't repeat those mistakes. Alpha also is able to take over the girls' education in normal and sorcerer matters when Suguru is away so they aren't ignorant of the things they might encounter while around him.

As a parent, Suguru is the one who the girls will complain to if Alpha sent them to do homework and they don't want to do it. He will get them to do normal people homework because he does know literacy and such is important, but if they beg off sorcerer training he just lets them.

Suguru grew up in a small countryside township, so he likes to take the kids out to the countryside for fresh air and to get away from people for a while. He prefers the city or places with no people at all, too many bad memories associated with small towns, so he'll give the girls money to go buy fresh produce or send someone else out to buy it, but he often cuts up snacks for them himself. It's Alpha the kids beg for junkfood because Suguru is always giving them healthy stuff to eat, and when he realizes, he starts to give them popsicles and stuff.

Suguru has a beautiful reading voice, and he's the one who usually does bedtime stories with the kids or who gets begged to help them with their reading homework.

As an omega, but even before presenting, Suguru always imagined that he'd have kids. He didn't necessarily think about when he would have them or really how many, he didn't imagine an ideal type of person to mate with or what his role would be as a parent. Part of it is social expectations, but he didn't think that he would mind one way or the other if he had children, he thought he's okay having kids if he finds someone he likes.

It does cross his mind that if he got to have you and Satoru, probably he'd have both of your children. Suguru knew that Satoru didn't like the idea of being indisposed for weeks or months if he had a baby and modern technology makes it much easier for less fertile pairings to have their own children. He has a bit of a fantasy about having Satoru's child and then yours. However, again I don't think desire to have children in particular plays into it, he just knows that it will be a requirement and he wants to do it.

If he leaves and the alpha doesn't go with him, he never has children. If alpha goes with him, then the only way he has children is on accident. They don't plan to have biological kids when the situation is so unstable with the cult and Suguru's plans.

In the case of an accidental pregnancy... I imagine he has a boy and you should hope the baby is a sorcerer, because if it's not, Alpha probably has to leave with him. (Not that Suguru would... kill his own infant and the relationship of an adult with their child is different than one with their parents but I don't think Alpha could stomach knowing it could be a later possibility or that Suguru would always be conflicted about a non-sorcerer child. At minimum, the kid would need to be able to see curses and to control their cursed energy. Suguru doesn't care if they have a technique or are even proficient enough to be a sorcerer, I think having a normal human child might just break his brain and a lot of other things.)

#cw: death of an infant #jjk #getou suguru #getou suguru x reader #omegaverse #alpha!reader #ask answered #many many months after the ask oop

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feydfuckernation · 3 months

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Okay I need more Sweeney Todd I'm in shambles about the revival currently. What Sweeney headcanons do you have please share and please elaborate !!! Angst goofy stuff whatever it is I Would Like To Hear

oh anon do i have some headcanons for you

sweeney lost his mother to scarlet fever as a child. his father died from cholera not long after, leaving him an orphan without many prospects. he became an apprentice to a barber on fleet street, who offered him a place to stay and an hourly wage until eventually he too passed away, leaving his home and his fortune to the boy. eventually he had made enough of a name for himself that his business attracted anyone in the central london area, highborn and lowborn.

lucy was initially born into high society and lived quite comfortably for most of her life. her father was a merchant and a sailor who worked for the east india company up until his untimely death at sea in the late 1850s. she then moved to london and lived with her grandmother where she worked as a washerwoman until she met and married benjamin barker.

lucy was always very fond of books. her father had taught her how to read at a young age and ever since she always seemed to have one with her wherever she went. her favourite books were often horror stories and gothic novels such as mary shelley's frankenstein, the vampyre by john william polidori, and various short stories by edgar allen poe.

before they had johanna, lucy was originally pregnant with another child; a daughter she and benjamin planned to name annabel lee, after their favourite poem. unfortunately due to birthing complications she died in the womb and was born stillborn. they buried her on a hill by the sea and had carved on her tomb: for the moon never beams / without bringing me dreams / of the beautiful annabel lee.

both sweeney and mrs. lovett have killed at least one person prior to the events of sweeney todd.

lucy's maiden name is winthrop.

there is a brief honeymoon period that happens between act one and act two where sweeney and mrs. lovett are rather domestic with one another that lasts for a few months or so.

sweeney sometimes mumbles in his sleep about lucy when he's in bed with mrs. lovett. she has heard him on more than one occasion.

mrs. lovett and sweeney have both used lucy as a means of coping in one way or another: for sweeney, he sometimes pretends mrs. lovett is lucy to try and regain some sense of normalcy, while mrs. lovett pretends she herself is lucy as a means of holding onto whatever scraps of affection sweeney has given her.

#once again i am very normal about cannibal barber propaganda the musical #answered #sweeney todd anon #lore tag #illness cw #pregnancy cw #infant death cw

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an-albino-pinetree · 5 months

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#cw bugs #cw insects #grub #child sighting #infant #Soot #the pet tag #bugs #insects #reddish brown stag beetle #big chompers

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apricote · 10 months

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a very different reaction from last time. 💞

#simblr #ts4 #ts4 gameplay #tjolc #tjol challenge #f: vickers #vickers: 1 #s: adelia #s: sammy #q #pregnancy cw #i couldn't help but peek so i know what she's having hehe #i wanted them to get married first but like. i don't want fennec to be too much older than his sibling(s)#and with the added infants the age difference will be bigger than it used to #anyway i love these two together so much ;--;#can't believe all their children are going to be blond though lmaooooo

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wastheheart · 1 month

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Horizon: Zero Dawn

@silcntsinners asked: “I’m sorry for your… loss.” (hello & thank you!)

It always startles her whenever she meets someone else at the small, quaint church Carlisle had chosen for her son's resting place. She sees people, of course, but her child's grave is apart from the others, tucked away in a quiet place beneath a tree that blooms with cherry blossoms in the spring.

She's not sure how long she's been standing here. Long since dead flowers are clasped against her chest, a new amalgamation of flowers freshly trimmed, placed and watered adorning the otherwise grey headstone.

The date will give it away— 1921. Has it really been that long?

And so, as she finally lifts her head to greet the face of the voice she heared, Esme lies. "Thank you, but he was my grandmother's son... I tend to his grave when I can, to keep both their memories alive." Her gaze can't help but journey back to the name, so recently refreshed to keep it from fading. Then, a grain of truth. "She never got over losing him."

#silcntsinners #answered ask #c; jaime dobson #v; undetermined #hope this is okay!#infant loss men #cw: infant loss #tw: infant loss #death men #tw: death #cw: death

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reasonsforhope · 1 month

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"In cities across the country, people of color, many of them low income, live in neighborhoods criss-crossed by major thoroughfares and highways.

The housing there is often cheaper — it’s not considered particularly desirable to wake up amid traffic fumes and fall asleep to the rumble of vehicles over asphalt.

But the price of living there is steep: Exhaust from all those cars and trucks leads to higher rates of childhood asthma, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and pulmonary ailments. Many people die younger than they otherwise would have, and the medical costs and time lost to illness contributes to their poverty.

Imagine if none of those cars and trucks emitted any fumes at all, running instead on an electric charge. That would make a staggering difference in the trajectory, quality, and length of millions of lives, particularly those of young people growing up near freeways and other sources of air pollution, according to a study from the American Lung Association.

The study, released [February 28, 2024], found that a widespread transition to EVs could avoid nearly 3 million asthma attacks and hundreds of infant deaths, in addition to millions of lower and upper respiratory ailments...

Prior research by the American Lung Association found that 120 million people in the U.S. breathe unhealthy air daily, and 72 million live near a major trucking route — though, Barret added, there’s no safe threshold for air pollution. It affects everyone.

Bipartisan efforts to strengthen clean air standards have already made a difference across the country. In California, which, under the Clean Air Act, can set state rules stronger than national standards, 100 percent of new cars sold there must be zero emission by 2035.

[Note: The article doesn't explain this, but that is actually a much bigger deal than just California. Basically, due to historically extra terrible pollution, California is the only state that's allowed to allowed to set stronger emissions rules than the US government sets. However, one of the rules in the Clean Air Act is that any other state can choose to follow California's standards instead of the US government's. And California by itself is the world's fifth largest economy - ahead of all but four countries. So, between those two things, when California sets stricter standards for cars, they effects ripple outward massively, far beyond the state's borders.]

Truck manufacturers are, according to the state’s Air Resources Board, already exceeding anticipated zero-emissions truck sales, putting them two years ahead of schedule...

Other states have begun to take action, too, often reaching across partisan lines to do so. Maryland, Colorado, New Mexico, and Rhode Island adopted zero-emissions standards as of the end of 2023.

The Biden administration is taking similar steps, though it has slowed its progress after automakers and United Auto Workers pressured the administration to relax some of its more stringent EV transition requirements.

While Barret finds efforts to support the electrification of passenger vehicles exciting, he said the greatest culprits are diesel trucks. “These are 5 to 10 percent of the vehicles on the road, but they’re generating the majority of smog-forming emissions of ozone and nitrogen,” Barret said...

Lately, there’s been significant progress on truck decarbonization. The Biden administration has made promises to ensure that 30 percent of all big rigs sold are electric by 2030...

Such measures, combined with an increase in public EV charging stations, vehicle tax credits, and other incentives, could change American highways, not to mention health, for good."

-via GoodGoodGood, February 28, 2024

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