The evening

Published on 9/03/2023 at 19:07
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Lhe kick-off of the latest fever pitch between Europe and the United States came on August 16, 2022. It’s called the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), literally, the Inflation Reduction Act. inflation. As its name does not indicate, the IRA is a device intended above all to allow the United States to get closer to, if not to achieve, its climate objectives in 2030: to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% compared to 2005 and to achieve net zero emissions in 2050.

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Published on 02/20/2023 at 18:57
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Joe Biden is succeeding where his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, failed: one of his most ambitious legislative projects, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), could disrupt the economic and industrial landscape of the United States in the years coming. With 374 billion dollars – an absolutely staggering sum – released in the form of subsidies, subsidized loans and tax credits over ten years to encourage companies to start their own environmental revolution, develop clean technologies and free themselves from fossil fuels, while favoring the “made in America”. Barely six months have passed since the promulgation of the law, on August 16, 2022, and the first figures leave one wondering: according to a report by American Clean Power, a pressure group dedicated to renewable energies, 40 billion dollars of investment would have already been generated, as well as 7,000 new jobs when these incentives came into effect on January 1.

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Correspondent in the United States

Published on 02/17/2023 at 21:15
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Correspondent in New York

LNew Yorkers, overwhelmed by the noria of helicopters cluttering the skies of Manhattan, finally have an opportunity to rejoice: this Tuesday, February 14, a curious machine took off for the first time from a nearby airport, that of Westchester . The small white beetle from the firms Blade Air Mobility and Beta Technologies, which responds to the somewhat obscure name of Alia-250, has carried out its first experimental test. It can take off and land vertically (eVTOL, for “electric Vertical Take-off and Landing”), then move like a conventional aircraft.

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Published on 02/9/2023 at 15:11
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LRoxham Road is a small crossing located on the US-Canadian border, between New York State and Quebec. It is by this route that thousands of Haitian and Latin American refugees have been entering Canada illegally for years. This border area, an irritant between Canada and the United States, is the subject of a scandal following an investigation by the New York Post. “Migrants abandon New York for Canada thanks to bus tickets financed by (American) taxpayers”, headlined the New York newspaper earlier this week. According to him, National Guard soldiers distributed bus tickets to migrants present in New York so that they can travel by bus to the city of Plattsburgh, located about thirty kilometers from Quebec. And that is the whole subtlety of the American strategy. If the authorities do pay for bus tickets to Plattsburgh, they can deny that these trips are to the fairly close Canadian border.

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