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DOT awarding up to $435M for 34 University Transportation Centers

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The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding up to $435 million in grant awards for 34 University Transportation Centers (UTC). The Department received 230 grant applications during this competition, which represents the largest number of applications ever submitted in the 35-year history of the UTC Program.

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Occidental to acquire direct air capture technology company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B

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1PointFive is building Stratos, the world’s largest DAC plant, which is expected to be commercially operational in mid-2025, in Ector County, Texas. Occidental is an international energy company with assets primarily in the United States, the Middle East and North Africa. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Ensyn granted EPA Part 79 approval for renewable gasoline

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Ensyn ( earlier post ) has been granted a key regulatory approval from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its renewable gasoline product, RFGasoline. The gasoline fraction was shipped to a major international oil company in the US for initial evaluation and preparation for the Part 79 test. Earlier post.).

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$112.5M awarded to research consortia studying effects of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf of Mexico

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The new grant recipients were selected using a competitive merit-review process. The grants awarded were in response to RFP-I, a request for proposals the GRI Research Board issued on 25 April 2011. The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute. Buskey, Ph.D.

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Tesla receives EU approval for Model Y with BYD batteries: report

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However, documents leaked to industry publication TeslaMag.de have suggested that the Netherlands Vehicle Authority (RDW) has granted approval for a new type of Model Y with BYD batteries. The vehicle was reportedly listed as Type 005 and internally known as the Y7CR variant. .

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Aemetis selects Worley to provide engineering for ‘Carbon Zero 1’ renewable jet and diesel production plant

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Separately, Aemetis signed a biofuels offtake agreement with international renewable fuels supplier Murex, LLC for an estimated $200 million of low carbon biofuels to be delivered during 2021 to 2023. million of grants from the California Energy Commission and Pacific Gas & Electric Company. . $200-million offtake agreement.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He was a member of several committees at conferences including the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting , the International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials , and the International Technical Conference on Circuits/ Systems, Computers, and Communications. before joining Texas Instruments in Dallas.

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