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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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Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. It would also fund stationary fuel cells to provide primary and emergency back-up power for the bus maintenance and storage facilities.

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US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

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Bayer Material Science LLC (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) will analyze an innovative, non-turbine approach to harnessing river currents. This is a unique approach that seeks to replace lower efficiency, high maintenance, long-stroke linear generator systems. The goal is to develop an optimal generator for current energy conversion.

Mariner 210
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Gas War: U.S. House Suggests Ending California Emissions Authority, White House Says Nope

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While this has created an incredibly hazy regulatory environment at both the federal and state level under the Trump administration, Biden’s doesn’t seem to care due to being in broad alignment with the policies pushed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB).