Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees, but I don't really need it.

Infliction is killing me!

But who cares? Big retailers are making record profits!

That's why we support the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill!

See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll.

This bill would cut the vital resources they need.

While increasing megastore profits, they deserve it. Don't they?

Tell Congress, stop the Durban Marshall money grab for corporate megastores.

Paid for it by the Electronic Payments Coalition.

Here's your afternoon T&B Tech Minute for Thursday, March 12th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

The Trump administration is suing California to block its efforts to limit carbon emissions from cars and transition to zero emission vehicles. In a lawsuit filed today, the Justice Department

said the state's rules create an illegal electric vehicle mandate and a patchwork of inconsistent

regulation violating the uniform national approach intended by Congress. The DOJ alleges the rules

violate the Energy Policy Conservation Act, which makes the National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration the sole regulator of U.S. fuel economy, a representative for Governor Gavin Newsom called

the lawsuit meritless. Lucid Group announced a new mid-sized vehicle platform today, which will feature

three models, including two SUVs called Cosmos and Earth, plus an unnamed consumer model.

The platform will also include a new electric drive unit called Atlas, designed

with identical front and rear housings and mounts, to better scale manufacturing and reduced costs.

The EV company also introduced Lunar, a two-seat Robotaxy concept based on its mid-sized platform.

Lucid aims to make the mid-sized segment more affordable, starting vehicles below

$50,000. It said cars will have smaller battery packs to keep costs down. Lucid's mid-sized platform

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