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WASHINGTON — California fuel cell advocates are urging a national strategy to replace diesel-powered heavy trucks at major U.S. ports and link future regional hydrogen hubs to create a fueling infrastructure.

Voltera, a company that develops and operates electric vehicle charging facilities as a full-service turnkey solution for clients, announced a strategic partnership with EV fleet maintenance company Amerit Fleet Solutions.

It’s crunch time for President Joe Biden’s climate agenda as he reaches the halfway point in his first term, with his administration planning to impose major climate policies touching everything from the cars Americans drive to the electricity they use.

The national average price of diesel dipped 3.4 cents to $4.549 a gallon, according to Energy Information Administration data released Jan. 9.

Some Americans could end up paying more for their gasoline thanks to a plan by seven Midwestern state governors to boost the use of corn-based ethanol.

Colonial Pipeline Co. halted operations on a critical conduit that supplies fuel to the U.S. Northeast, the latest disruption to energy flows following an outage on the Keystone oil pipeline in December.

The national average price of diesel increased after seven straight weeks of declines, rising 4.6 cents to $4.583 according to Energy Information Administration data on Jan. 2.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced it intends to issue $750 million in funds to dramatically lower the cost of hydrogen technologies for heavy-truck fuel cells as well as hydrogen delivery and storage.

A pipeline operator put a damaged section in Kansas back into service Dec. 29, a little more than three weeks after a spill dumped 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a rural creek.