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USDA invests $26 million in biofuel infrastructure to expand availability of higher-blend renewable fuels in 23 states

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The announcement includes investments in California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas and Wisconsin. In Ohio, United Dairy Farmers Inc.

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Union Pacific Railroad to purchase 20 battery-electric locomotives for testing in yard operations

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The locomotives will be acquired from Progress Rail , a Caterpillar company, and Wabtec Corporation , two companies at the forefront of locomotive innovation, and will be the world’s largest carrier-owned battery-electric locomotive fleet in freight service.

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The EV Professor

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Eastern Nebraska Electric Vehicle Association (EVNEBRASKA) member Dr. Donald Cox likes to draw a comparison between electric vehicles (EVs) and the wireless phone technology he worked on at Bell Labs in the early 1970’s. “I When Cox retired in 2012, he and Mary moved back home to Lincoln, Nebraska, bringing their Tesla with them.

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Clean Energy to provide LNG to Hawaii Gas; additional agreements in trucking, transit and refuse markets

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Fred Meyer is the first company in the State of Oregon to take advantage of the Oregon Clean Fuel Program, which calls for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the use of cleaner fuels such as natural gas and renewable natural gas. Fred Meyer Stores, a division of The Kroger Co.,

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IEEE STEM Activity Kits Are In Demand at 150 U.S. Public Libraries

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Only public libraries in IEEE Region 4 currently are eligible for an SKPL grant. Currently all 80 branches of the Chicago Public Library have the kits, as do libraries in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The number of libraries applying for SKPL grants has grown.

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Transcanada restarts Keystone oil sands pipeline operations

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On Friday, 3 June, the US Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), part of the US Department of Transportation, had issued a Corrective Order requiring the company to take specified corrective actions with respect to the pipeline prior to resumption of operations.

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Castor Bean Genome Published

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While the castor bean genome is the first to be sequenced and published from this family, the jatropha genome has been sequenced by JCVI and the company Synthetic Genomics Inc. There are approximately 6,300 species in this family that includes the cassava, rubber tree, ornamental poinsettias and jatropha. Jatropha is also an oilseed crop.

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