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The Boring Company’s updated projects page no longer lists D.C.-Baltimore tunnel

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Baltimore tunnel and the Dugout Loop in Los Angeles. Baltimore project, a spokesperson from the Federal Highway Administration has stated that The Boring Company has not given the agency any indications that it intends to move forward with the project. A conditional permit for the initiative was later granted by state officials.

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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

As a senior in high school, Smith entered an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Enginners (IEEE) competition in Baltimore describing a project on computers and small EVs. His presentation won him an engineering scholarship to Duke University. For the younger set, Smith is assisting in a restart of the EV Challenge for Youth. Onward….

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Transit agencies began submitting their proposals after the FTA announced rules for the Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) grant program as part of the Recovery Act last March. Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 The DOT is making $48.1 Minneapolis-St.

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Scientists synthesize first functional designer chromosome in yeast

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The massive effort was aided by some 60 undergraduate students enrolled in the “Build a Genome” project, founded by Dr. Boeke at Johns Hopkins. His team, with further support from Build a Genome students, is already working on assembling base pairs in chunks of more than 10,000 base pairs.

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How Many EV Charging Stations Will $10 Billion Buy for America?

EV Adoption

And now that the Senate’s version of the Biden Infrastructure Bill is close to passing, a potential estimated $10 billion could fund grants for building out EV charging infrastructure in the US. With the Biden Infrastructure Bill, the US government’s grants are capped at $15 million per grant and 80% of the project cost.

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