With unemployment in France rising and consumer confidence at a record low, auto sales in the country have tumbled more than any other major European market this year.
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Italy pledges action to keep Fiat plants, report says
Italy’s Industry Minister, Flavio Zanonato, has set up a working group that will make every effort to keep Fiat’s five Italian car factories from closing, he told an Italian newspaper.
U.S. EPA no longer classifies sanitary wipes as “hazardous waste”
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) modified the hazardous waste management regulations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) to conditionally exclude solvent-contaminated wipes from hazardous waste regulations provided that businesses clean or dispose of them properly.
The rule is based on EPA’s final risk analysis, which was peer reviewed in 2008 and published for public comment in 2009, that concluded wipes contaminated with certain hazardous solvents do not pose significant risk to human health and the environment when managed properly. EPA estimates that the final rule will result in a net savings of between $21.7 million and $27.8 million per year.
Mitsubishi recalls 2013 Outlander Sport vehicles over stabilizer link
Mitsubishi is recalling certain model year 2013 Outlander Sport vehicles manufactured Jan. 17, 2013, through Jan. 25, 2013.
California S.C. Will Not Hear Auto Technicians’ Wage Dispute
The California Supreme Court has declined to weigh in on a dispute over whether automotive technicians who are paid on a “piece-rate” basis for fixing cars are separately entitled to minimum wages when waiting for cars to come in for repair or performing other duties.
The justices, at their weekly conference in San Francisco Wednesday, voted 6-1 to deny review in Gonzalez v. Downtown LA Motors, LP (2013) 215 Cal. App. 4th 36.
