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US spending money to spur domestic battery production

Enlarge / Batteries roll through an automated assembly line. (credit: xPACIFICA/Getty Images) On Monday, the US Department of Energy announced that it was releasing over $3 billion in funds to stimulate the production of batteries within the country. The funding is divided into two chunks, one intended to spur the processing of battery materials and manufacturing […]

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The omnibus bill Has Been packed with Environment and Energy Coverage

Expand The laws passed by the US Senate Monday was utterly frankensteinian: a heap of unrelated statements stitched together. Aside from the pandemic aid steps, it included tens of thousands of pages of federal financing and tax credits, such as, for instance, a session’s worth of prep stapled into the last examination. However, in the […]