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IEA: key oil trends 2018

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in 2018 compared to 2017, reaching a record total monthly production of over 100 million tons at the beginning of the year and remaining above this for almost all of 2018, according to the IEA. Production from the United States rose to a record high in the third quarter of 2018, and increased by 17.1%

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GHSA projects that drivers killed more than 7500 pedestrians in 2022; most since 1981

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provided pedestrian fatality data for the report; due to a technical issue, Oklahoma did not provide data. Although race and ethnicity data for 2021 pedestrian deaths were not available in FARS due to delays in processing death certificates, researchers looked at changes between 2018 and 2020. Forty-nine states and D.C.

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BuG ReMeDEE project seeks to use extremophile bacteria to convert methane to biofuels, biopolymers and electricity

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The project—Building Genome-to-Phenome Infrastructure for Regulating Methane in Deep and Extreme Environments ( BuG ReMeDEE )—was awarded a $6-million grant by the National Science Foundation in October 2017. —Rajesh Sani. Saurabh Sudha Dhiman, Namita Shrestha, Aditi David, Neha Basotra, Glenn R. Johnson, Bhupinder S.

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The New Supersonic Boom

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government established a Supersonic Transport Advisory Committee, which began discussions with international partners about building a supersonic airliner. The most extensive such experiment took place over Oklahoma City in 1964. Assuming this campaign takes place on schedule, it'll be 60 years after the FAA's Oklahoma City tests.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Eligible projects included those that replace, rehabilitate, lease, and purchase buses and related equipment as well as projects to purchase, rehabilitate, construct or lease bus-related facilities, such as buildings for bus storage and maintenance. AVTA is committed to having an all electric fleet by 2018. FY2017 Low-No projects.

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US awards more than $1B to establish 12 new AI and quantum science research institutes

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The NSF-led AI Research Institutes will be hosted by universities across the country, including at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, University of Texas at Austin, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of California at Davis, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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