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US indicts 7 individuals and 3 companies in alleged $100M biodiesel RINs fraud in Indiana

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Dreher, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, announced the return of two indictments against six individuals and three companies for offenses involving federal renewable fuel programs, allegedly creating losses to victims totaling more than $100 million. The defendants.

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REGI secures up to $20M for biodiesel plant capacity expansion

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Chad Stone, Chief Financial Officer. Terry Branstad at REG’s Newton biorefinery, extends the existing 2 cents per gallon biodiesel production tax credit for seven years beginning 1 Januar 2018. This investment shows our continued confidence in biodiesel for the long-term. cents per gallon and creates a new 5.5

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Push for new US lithium mine leaves some Americans wary – ET Auto

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” With President Joe Biden working to build domestic EV and battery industries, companies are seeking supplies in United States — which has major lithium deposits in Nevada, North Carolina and California. Lithium-ion battery demand is set to grow nearly 30 percent annually from 2022-2030, according to McKinsey & Company.

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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FIE-TAX: Fixed-Incident-Energy Triple-Axis Spectrometer. TAX: Triple-Axis Spectrometer. In the EGR coolers project, researchers measured coolers from 10 participating companies. Thomas Watkins; Hassina Bilheux; Ke An; Andrew Payzant; Ryan Dehoff; Chad Duty; William Peter; Craig Blue; and Craig Brice. Simmons, B.,

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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He said he’d try to get his boat, a 42-footer with three people on board, back to Atwood’s , a lobster company on Spruce Head Island, Maine. Other state and national authorities allow citizens to use their voices to verify their identity and thus gain access to their tax data records and pension information.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Tesla, one of the smartest things the company did was to recognize early on that if electric cars were to be accepted as viable substitutes for cars with engines, they couldn't be limited to low-range city-only [driving]. It doesn't cover the whole thing, but you do get a chunk of it back as a tax credit. So that's what it takes.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Tesla, one of the smartest things the company did was to recognize early on that if electric cars were to be accepted as viable substitutes for cars with engines, they couldn't be limited to low-range city-only [driving]. It doesn't cover the whole thing, but you do get a chunk of it back as a tax credit. So that's what it takes.