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The size of Washington State’s largest wind farm just got cut by 50%

Baua Electric

Washington State’s energy board cut the size of what would have been the state’s largest wind farm in half yesterday – here’s why. Wind farm controversy in Washington State The $1.7 But Horse Heaven has been stuck at the permitting stage with the seven-person Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC) for the last three years.

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Regulatory & Legal Alerts – Dec. 2017

Green Car Congress

Peopletrail actively tracks the regulatory and legal environment that surrounds employment and criminal background screening. Washington. In Spokane County, Washington, job applicants will no longer be asked to disclose criminal convictions from the past 10 years. The post Regulatory & Legal Alerts – Dec. California.

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Twitter finally agrees to comply with Elon Musk’s demands over bot data: report

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As per a report from The Washington Post , Twitter’s Board is planning on complying with Musk’s requests by providing the Tesla CEO with access to its full “firehose.” It remains to be seen if Musk’s legal team would consider the data from Twitter’s firehose as the answer to the Tesla CEO’s concerns.

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Tesla registers insurance company at Giga Berlin’s address

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Last month, those plans seemed to be pushing forward with the company taking steps to introduce Tesla Insurance in other US states, including Texas, Illinois, and Washington. In Q2 2020, Elon Musk and Zachary Kirkhorn stated that the company intended to expand Tesla Insurance.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

Cars That Think

Emblematic of the hope, faith, perseverance, and drive to overcome systemic legal and social barriers the song encapsulates is the life of self-taught technical genius Lewis H. Sandford decision , ruled that an enslaved person was not made free by entering a state whose laws forbid slavery.

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SpaceX’s NASA Starship contract safe for now as Blue Origin looks to Congress

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Almost instantly, both losing competitors – Blue Origin and Dynetics – filed protests with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) filled with far more bizarre, rambling tangents than coherent legal arguments. SpaceX’s upgraded Starship set for test flight despite sore NASA contract losers.

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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

Cars That Think

Pedott test-marketed the Great American Turn-On at People’s Drug in Washington, D.C. In the 1990s, he became known for his long-running legal battle against Universal Manufacturing Corp. I love this first-person account of how he remembered the invention process. Eventually, they filed for a U.S. However, there are pitfalls.

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