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California ARB amends diesel rules to reduce cost of compliance

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Over the past year, ARB staff held 20 public workshops throughout the state to solicit stakeholder input and discuss options for revising diesel control measures affecting commercially owned trucks, buses, port trucks, tractor trailers and off-road vehicles, including construction and large-spark ignition equipment (e.g., forklifts).

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Graphex Group to expand graphite processing in China to 40k tonnes/year, up from 10k, to meet EV battery needs

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Under the MOU for the intended expansion plans, the Jixi Mashan Government would provide Graphex with three blocks of newly constructed industrial facilities and workshops totaling approximately 160,000 square feet within the Jixi Mashan Graphite Industrial Park. Phase 1 of the SG expansion is intended to be operational by early 2023.

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CARB releases 2022 draft Scoping Plan update

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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has released the draft 2022 Climate Change Scoping Plan —the third update to the state’s initial 2008 Scoping Plan. Development of the plan also included public engagement including over a dozen workshops, webinars or public meetings over the past year.

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DOE to award up to $15M for Advancements In Algal Biomass Yield, Phase 2

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The National Algal Biofuels Roadmap captured the results from the 2008 National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap Workshop and serves as guidance on the barriers that hinder the development of high‐impact algal feedstocks that can be converted to advanced biofuels and bioproducts.

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DOE announces funding opportunity for enhancing algal biomass yield to support cost-competitive algal biofuels

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The Biomass Technologies Office believes this target is an important milestone in reducing the cost of algal biofuels to cost-competitive levels on the way to achieving 5,000 gallons per acre by 2022. A biofuel intermediate is a biomass-based feedstock that will serve as a petroleum replacement in downstream refining.

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NIST Releases EPRI Report on Smart Grid Development; Priorities, Standards, Architecture

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EPRI technical experts have compiled and distilled recommendations from a variety of Smart Grid stakeholders, including technical contributions taken from two EPRI-facilitated, two-day, public workshops. Release 1.0 of the NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Standards Framework is planned to be available in September.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. He went on to earn a master's degree in computer science in 2008, also from Loyola. On a visit to Pakistan with his parents, 7-year-old Aadeel Akhtar met a girl his age who was missing her right leg.

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