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Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion

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The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable energy deployment. Utility companies are prioritizing their shareholders over the public’s need for cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable energy. The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks.

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FAA Awards Contracts for $125M to 5 Companies to Accelerate More Environmentally Friendly Aviation Technology; Renewable Fuels, Engines, Wings and Flight Management

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Drop-in alternative fuels will require no significant modifications to aircraft and engines and with a goal of performing more efficiently, and cleaner than current fossil-based fuels. The FAA will conduct independent assessments of CLEEN technologies using a modeling tool developed at Georgia Institute of Technology for the FAA.

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

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Juneau, the Capital City of Alaska, has a clean, renewable source of energy, local hydropower. Georgia Department of Transportation. The Macon-Bibb County Transit Authority, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Transportation, will receive funding to purchase battery electric buses and supporting charging infrastructure.

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

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on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. On a broad level, the IRA enacts the following climate change-mitigation measures which, taken together, put the U.S.