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This should enable the automaker to reap tens of billions of dollars in additional profit, according to Reuters estimates, before it shifts completely to zero-emission electric vehicles in 2035. It never said when exactly it would stop producing gasoline-powered trucks and SUVs, though suppliers and analysts expected it would be well before 2035. GM plans to run its heavy-duty combustion pickups at both plants until 2035, according to AFS, which provides data and analysis to vehicle manufacturers and suppliers. The automaker will gradually reduce annual production of its big SUVs in Arlington as it begins to introduce new electric companions, starting around mid-decade. By 2030, AFS forecasts Arlington production could drop to around 200,000 vehicles, which could still produce at least $2 billion in pretax earnings.

Persons: Paul Jacobson, “, Jim Farley, May, Michael Ward, ” Ward, Paul Lienert, Joe White, Matthew Lewis Organizations: DETROIT, General Motors, GM, Reuters, U.S, United Auto Workers, ICE, Chevrolet Silverado, Ford, SEC, Arlington, AutoForecast Solutions, Ward, Benchmark, GMC, Silverado, GMC Sierra, AFS, Yukon XL, Thomson Locations: United States, Canada, Flint , Michigan, Arlington , Texas, Fort Wayne , Indiana, Oshawa , Ontario, Flint, Fort Wayne, Arlington, Oshawa, Suburban, Yukon, Ward, Detroit

☆ GM to invest more than $500 mln in Texas plant for future SUVs
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Companies General Motors Co FollowJune 8 (Reuters) - General Motors (GM.N) said Thursday it will invest more than $500 million in its Arlington, Texas assembly plant to prepare it for production of next-generation internal combustion engine full-size SUVs. Efforts to retool existing North American auto plants and introduce more efficient next-generation internal combustion models are also being planned, sources told Reuters. GM faces increasingly stringent emissions requirements from California and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). On Tuesday, GM said it would invest C$280 million ($210 million) in its Canadian Oshawa Assembly to produce the next-generation internal combustion engine full-size trucks. GM faces pressure from the United Auto Workers union, which will enter contract talks with the Detroit Three automakers this summer.

Persons: Mary Barra, Gerald Johnson, David Shepardson, Shivansh, Shilpi Majumdar, Diane Craft Organizations: General Motors, Detroit, Reuters, GM, Environmental Protection Agency, Chevrolet Tahoe, Suburban, Canadian Oshawa Assembly, EPA, Michigan, Capitol, United Auto Workers union, Detroit Three, UAW, Thomson Locations: Arlington , Texas, California, Flint , Michigan, Texas, Washington, Bengaluru

☆ GM to invest $500 million to build next-generation Cadillac Escalade, other large SUVs
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Michael Wayland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

DETROIT – General Motors plans to invest more than $500 million in a plant in Texas to prepare the facility for production of its highly profitable next-generation large SUVs. GM on Monday made a similar announcement for its next-generation heavy-duty pickups, which share the frame of the large SUVS. The truck investment included more than $1 billion in two Michigan plants for production of next-generation heavy-duty trucks. The automaker recently confirmed an all-electric version of its Cadillac Escalade but declined to disclose when the vehicle will come to market. The investment announcements come ahead of contract negotiations between the Detroit automakers, including GM, and the United Auto Workers union this summer.

Organizations: General Motors Co, DETROIT –, Motors, Detroit, Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Yukon, Yukon XL, GM, United Auto Workers, UAW Locations: Arlington , Texas, DETROIT, Texas, Arlington, Yukon, Michigan, EVs

☆ A rare wolverine sighting in California is only the second time this threatened animal has turned up in the last 100 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

It's only the second wolverine seen in California in the last 100 years. Wolverines are native to California but have essentially been extinct from the state since the 1920s. One wolverine was spotted in the state from 2008 to 2018, beginning in the Tahoe National Forest, officials said. The animal has been spotted twice in the Inyo National Forest and once in Yosemite National Park. The species — the largest terrestrial member of the weasel family — is listed as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act.

Persons: It's, —, they've, Daniel Gammons, Gammons Organizations: Wolverines, Service, wolverines, Forest, Inyo National Forest, California's Department of Fish, California's Department of Fish and Wildlife ., Alaska . Wildlife Locations: California, Sierra Nevada, Tahoe, Inyo, Yosemite, California's Department of Fish and, Canada, Alaska

☆ An Amateur Sleuth Heads to the Sierra in Search of the Zodiac Killer’s Tracks
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Thomas Fuller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Late last year, Fayçal Ziraoui, a French-Moroccan business consultant, was at his home in the Paris suburbs scrolling through satellite pictures of the Sierra Nevada when he came across an image that startled him. It looked to him like the symbol that the Zodiac killer used on his correspondence a half-century ago. In December, Ziraoui searched satellite images of the Sierra after believing that a postcard and a cipher sent by the Zodiac killer pointed to those coordinates. Ziraoui spent the winter counting down the days until the snow melted, and in mid-May, he flew to San Francisco. It’s a four-hour drive from the Bay Area, the last dozen miles on rough dirt roads blocked at times by the remnants of collapsed trees killed in the 2014 King fire.

Persons: Fayçal, Constant Méheut, Ziraoui Locations: French, Moroccan, Paris, Sierra Nevada, New York, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, It’s, Bay

☆ A design firm created with AI tools in one weekend fooled some people — despite the pictures' basic flaws
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Alex Cornell, an interface designer, created a fake design firm with AI tools in one weekend. Alex Cornell, an interface designer, made a fictional design firm in one weekend with the help of generative AI tools. The design firm, Andever Design Partners, was so convincing some Twitter users assumed it was real. "I got really good really fast using it just because I had such a specific target, it made it really easy to learn how to improve." Alex Cornell / AndeverHowever, Cornell did discover a few tricks to keep things consistent.

Persons: Alex Cornell, Cornell, Alex Cornell's, Midjourney, Andever Organizations: Design Partners, Cornell Locations: San Francisco

☆ ‘California is meant to burn': Experts teach landowners art of prescribed burns
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Nathan Frandino | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/5] Volunteer David Palmer takes part in a broadcast burn in advance of wildfire season near Blodgett Forest Research Station in Georgetown, California, U.S., May 20, 2023. Teaching locals is exactly what Susie Kocher is hoping to accomplish through the El Dorado Amador Prescribed Burn Association. Founded in 2021, the association teaches private landowners about prescribed burns, including how to plan and carry them out safely. California last year launched a strategic plan for wildfire and forest resilience with the aim of expanding prescribed burns to 400,000 acres annually by 2025. The Saturday class for two dozen volunteers – mostly college students and a few private landowners - at the Blodgett Forest Research Station west of Lake Tahoe turned out just as the experts had hoped.

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☆ I felt strung out in the San Francisco Bay area so I moved to a small mountain resort in Washington state with my husband — here's why it was the right choice.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Leslie Cousins was born and raised in the Bay Area, but started to feel strung out living in California. Cousins and her husband moved to a small mountain resort community in Cle Elum, Washington. I was born and raised in the Bay Area, while my husband Joe grew up in Boston and Chicago. Suncadia is located in a city that has a population of 2,299 compared to the 7.5 million population of the Bay Area. We belonged to a golf club in the Bay Area, and my husband was hoping to find a similar club community.

☆ Airbnb has descended on America's small cities. Now locals must decide how to contain it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

In cities both small and large, some locals are calling out short-term rentals for making housing more expensive. The same question is perplexing local governments and fueling impassioned locals to weigh in: What should we do about Airbnb-style, short-term rentals? Jacob Boomsma/Getty ImagesFor Bozeman Tenants United, it's simple math: Bozeman homes should be occupied by Bozeman residents first, before out-of-towners. Formed in 2020, Bozeman Tenants United surveyed Bozeman residents on the most pressing issues in local housing and landed on short-term rentals. Fire Thunder said the increase of short-term rentals and vacation-owned properties is just one harbinger of a concerning trend.

☆ Record Western Snow Leaves Trail of Collapsed Buildings
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Jim Carlton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.—Charlene Crandall’s mobile home has taken a beating from all the snow this year: broken window, leaks in three rooms, a bent carport. She said she prevented even more damage by climbing atop the roof after every big snowfall and spending hours shoveling.

Prosecutor Chris Conroy said: "The defendant Donald J. Trump falsified New York business records in order to conceal an illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the 2016 presidential election and other violations of election laws." SOCIAL MEDIA POSTSProsecutors during the arraignment said Trump made a series of social media posts, including one threatening "death and destruction" if he was charged. "They can't beat us at the ballot box so they try to beat us through the law," Trump said. The false records included invoices from Cohen, entries in a ledger for Trump maintained by the Trump Organization, and check stubs, according to the indictment. "Under New York state law, it is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud and intent to conceal another crime.

☆ California Snowpack Is Among the Highest Ever Recorded
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Jim Carlton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Surveyors from the California Department of Water Resources measured a snow field in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on Monday. California’s snowpack ranks as the biggest in at least 40 years, giving much needed relief to crippling drought but leaving many rural communities under threat of major flooding when the frozen bounty melts. Surveyors from the California Department of Water Resources on Monday conducted manual measurements of a snow field near Lake Tahoe, where they said the 126.5 inches was among the deepest since the hand tallies were first carried out more than a century ago. The water equivalent was 54 inches.

Trump wrote on his Truth Social profile shortly after arriving in New York from Florida on Monday, urging supporters to donate to his campaign. The arraignment, where Trump will be in court to hear charges and have a chance to enter a plea, was planned for 2:15 p.m. (1815 GMT) on Tuesday. Citing a single source briefed on Tuesday's arraignment procedures, Yahoo said none of the charges against Trump were misdemeanors. PROTESTS AND POPULARITYPolice over the weekend began erecting barricades near Trump Tower - where Trump arrived on Monday after flying in from Florida - and the Manhattan Criminal Court building, with demonstrations expected at both sites on Tuesday. On the Manhattan case, Trump in 2018 initially disputed knowing anything about the payment to Daniels.

☆ Record California snowpack bounty poses renewed flood risks
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Steve Gorman | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

But this year's abundant Sierra snowpack also poses a severe risk of renewed flooding to parts of California, especially the lower San Joaquin Valley, during the spring thaw, according to state Department of Water Resources (DWR) officials. More widely, however, electronic readings from 130 snow sensors throughout California showed the statewide snowpack's water equivalent at 61.1 inches, or 237% of average, tying the record statewide average level set in April of 1952. "This year's result will go down as one of the largest snowpack years on record in California," said Sean de Guzman, manager of the DWR snow survey8 and water supply forecasting unit. Guzman said California's reservoirs, severely drained just months ago, have all been replenished to more than 100% of average statewide. Long-term drought conditions in the Colorado River watershed will continue to impact millions of residents of Southern California residents, the DWR said.

Trump, the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges, is due to be arraigned, fingerprinted and photographed at the downtown Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday. A court official said the arraignment is planned for 2:15 p.m. (1815 GMT) on Tuesday. Trump then will return to Florida and deliver remarks at Mar-a-Lago at 8:15 p.m. on Tuesday (0015 GMT on Wednesday), his office said. Other courtrooms on the courthouse's higher floors will be shut down ahead of the arraignment as part of the security precautions, a court official said. U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted an invitation on Sunday to join her at a protest near the courthouse on Tuesday, saying "They’re not coming after President Trump, they’re coming after us, he’s just in their way."

☆ Who is Stormy Daniels and how is she involved in Donald Trump indictment?
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Trump has denied the relationship and has said the payment was made to stop her "false and extortionist accusations." loadingHere are facts about the Daniels and her alleged relationship with Trump. STORMY DANIELS, ADULT FILM STARDaniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is 44 years old and from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She said Trump asked her about herself and whether she would like to appear on his TV show "Celebrity Apprentice." Trump responded on Twitter to the release of the sketch, writing: "A sketch years later about a nonexistent man.

☆ Factbox: Who is Stormy Daniels and what did she say happened with Trump?
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald Trump, possibly over a "hush-money" payment. Here's a timeline of Trump and Daniels' alleged relationship, the $130,000 payment to keep Daniels silent, and the testimonies leading to a possible indictment. Markus Schreiber/APManhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg convened a grand jury in mid-January of this year to consider an indictment against Trump. And Trump's former fixer and lawyer Michael Cohen, prosecutors' key witness, has made repeated visits to the DA's office and to the grand jury. Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesThe Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Trump on Thursday, March 30.

☆ California’s Atmospheric Rivers Make for Summer Skiing
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Talal Ansari | Suryatapa Bhattacharya | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

California, synonymous with its beaches and sun, is keeping winter a little longer. Ski resorts in the state are extending their seasons amid near-record snowfall from a series of powerful winter storms that have thrashed the Golden State in recent months. Mammoth Mountain, in the Sierra Nevada range, said it would be open until at least the end of July. Heavenly Mountain Resort near Lake Tahoe will close May 7, while Big Bear Mountain in the San Bernardino Mountains and Mountain High in Los Angeles County are among the resorts planning to stay open through April.

A Manhattan grand jury weighing evidence for a possible Donald Trump "hush-money" indictment. Here's a timeline of Trump and Daniels' alleged relationship, the $130,000 payment to keep Daniels silent, and the testimonies leading to a possible indictment. Markus Schreiber/APManhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg convened a grand jury in mid-January of this year to consider an indictment against Trump. And Trump's former fixer and lawyer Michael Cohen, prosecutors' key witness, has made repeated visits to the DA's office and to the grand jury. What could happen nextThe final witnesses were scheduled to testify before the grand jury on March 20, though it is unclear when the panel may vote.

Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is a porn star who met President Donald Trump in 2006. She says Trump's longtime fixer Michael Cohen paid her $130,000 before the 2016 presidential election to keep quiet about an affair, which Trump has denied. Just weeks before the 2016 presidential election, Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen paid $130,000 so Daniels would keep silent about the alleged affair, which Trump has denied. The contribution was made on October 27, 2016 — the day a $130,000 payment to Daniels was finalized. Here's what you should know about Stormy Daniels:

☆ California's 'zombie forests' are 'cheating death' as the climate has changed so drastically it's no longer able to support them
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A new study found some of the forests in California's Sierra Nevada no longer match their climate. About 20% of conifers in the Sierra Nevada are experiencing "vegetation climate mismatch." The lead author said the trees are "cheating death" but that they won't survive a major disturbance. When trees or other plants are no longer suited to the environment they are in, it's called a "vegetation climate mismatch." The conifers of the Sierra Nevada include ponderosa pine, sugar pine, and Douglas fir.

☆ I worked in Tesla's Nevada Gigafactory. I loved my job, and it had little to do with Elon Musk.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A Tesla production associate said they loved their job at the Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada. They said their work was challenging and inspiring, and rarely directly involved Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Working at Tesla isn't all about Elon MuskI wish people understood that working at Tesla is not like what you see in the news. The production associate said their work had little to do with Elon Musk. The people that pushed carts with supplies could get 20,000 to 30,000 steps and it could be a really labor intensive job.

☆ I make $19,800 a month in revenue from 'Airbnb for boats' in Miami. Here's how I built my business.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Kimanzi Constable | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Mylène Garot loved being on the water and wanted to start a boat-rental business in Miami. Garot used her savings to purchase a boat and started renting it on Boatsetter, an Airbnb for boats. I was Googling platforms similar to Airbnb and found Boatsetter, where boat owners can list their boats for people to rent. My husband was a boat captain and managed property — it seemed pretty perfect. The revenue was growing, but a private renter, renting outside Boatsetter, damaged one of the boats in September 2020.

☆ New cars are crazy expensive but, if you’re careful, they don’t have to be
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-11 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Yet the average sticker for base models, adjusted for inflation, has actually gone down a little — even as consumers have shifted from sedans to more expensive SUVs. That’s good news for drivers willing to go no-frills: If you don’t want to pay lots of a new car, you don’t have to. It has a base price of $15,730. These base price models may not make much money, if any, for automakers. The average price of a GMC Sierra 2500 HD, as sold, is now double the base price.

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