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Regulatory & Legal Alerts – Dec. 2017

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Peopletrail actively tracks the regulatory and legal environment that surrounds employment and criminal background screening. 7, 2017, a law in New York State makes it possible for individuals convicted of certain criminal offenses to have up to two convictions sealed. Simple Compliance with a Complex Law, 11/14/2017.

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Bridgestone awarded $35M USDA Climate-Smart Grant to advance guayule natural rubber production

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Joining Bridgestone, additional partners in the $35-million guayule climate-smart grant include the University of Arizona, Colorado State University, OpenET, Environmental Defense Fund, Tohono O’odham Nation and Colorado River Indian Tribes, and eight regional growers.

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USTMA report finds that recycling of end-of-life tires dropped from 96% in 2013 to 76% in 2019

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This not only protects our health and the environment - it drives innovation and jobs. While the number of scrap tires generated each year grew by almost 7%, the total number of scrap tires recycled or reclaimed has not significantly changed since 2017. —Anne Forristall Luke, president and CEO of USTMA.

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DOE awarding up to $3.5M to additional algal biomass yield project

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In Fiscal Year 2017, DOE has selected one more project: the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s “Rewiring Algal Carbon Energetics for Renewables (RACER)”. This amount will be produced through multiple batch campaigns or on a semi-continuous or continuous basis, in an outdoor test environment, by 2020. Earlier post.)

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UPS adding 200 more series hybrid delivery trucks

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will be deployed beginning in January 2017 starting in Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, and, possibly in other states as well. A cloud-based, real time telematics performance monitoring system provides feedback for energy monitoring and route efficiency.

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DISCOVR project seeking high productivity algae to reduce cost of biofuels

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Culture Tier II strains are being validated om PNNL’s LEAPS photobioreactors using light and temperature scripts generated by PNNL’s Biomass Assessment Tool (BAT) for Arizona testbeds. DISCOVR Project BETO peer review (March 2017). The DISCOVR project workflow. Numbers in red designate the number of strains tested at each TIER.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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VR headsets allow students to immerse themselves in realistic digital environments to learn math and science by solving real-world problems, such as calculating how high a house’s foundation should be raised to offset the risk of flooding. She left in 2017 and joined Success Academy as dean of mathematics.