Larisa Mănescu is the associate director of federal communications, primarily supporting the Sierra Club's Clean Transportation for All campaign. She lives in Baltimore, MD. She was previously a deputy press secretary, and before that, the communications coordinator for the Texas chapter of the Sierra Club.
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Washington, DC — Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized federal standards to strengthen the nation’s emissions requirements for light-duty vehicles that will encourage the…
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) finalized a rule to update a two-decade-old calculation that determines the equivalent fuel economy of electric vehicles (EVs), phasing in…
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