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EPA finalizes RFS volumes for 2019 and biomass-based diesel volumes for 2020

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Under the RFS program, a small refinery may be granted a temporary exemption from its annual Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs) if it can demonstrate that compliance with the RVOs would cause the refinery to suffer disproportionate economic hardship. billion gallons of fuel between 2015 and 2017.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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I believe that IEEE should be open to all technologists and that we should create a safe environment that supports our members to be their best selves. He was granted two U.S. He served on the IEEE Board of Directors as the 2016–2017 Region 5 director and the 2019 vice president of. As the 2016–2017 vice president of.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000. Henn Tan, shown here in 2017, fought a series of mostly losing battles against those who pirated Trek 2000’s ThumbDrive design and against rival patent claims. Henn Tan holds up a ThumbDrive during an interview in Singapore in January 2006.

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Volkswagen AG agrees to plead guilty and pay $4.3B in criminal and civil penalties; 6 execs and employees indicted

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2017, in Miami during a visit to the United States and appeared in federal court there on Monday. From 2006 until 2013, Dorenkamp led a team of engineers that developed the first diesel engine that was designed to meet the new, tougher emissions standards in the United States. This case has been assigned to US District Judge Sean F.

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Cummins announces PLANET 2050 strategy; net-zero carbon emissions by 2050

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In 2020, Cummins will launch a strategic community environmental program to align its efforts and affirm its commitment to the environment as one of the company’s three community priority areas. They also supported robust federal investment in research and development, grant programs for adoption of new technologies, and tax incentives.

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This Robot Could Be the Key to Helping People With Disabilities

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“I imagined using it as a way to once again manipulate my physical environment after years of just lying in bed.” executive,” Evans wrote on his blog in 2006. “I I’d become frustrated with the complexity of the robots being built to do manipulation in home environments and around people,” says Edsinger.

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