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Thursday, May 8, 2008

 

OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY

As fuel prices rise, some speedometer needles fall
(Associated Press) Based on recent highway traffic volume trends, throttling back to 60 mph from 70 mph would likely reduce gasoline usage between 2 percent and 3 percent, which is about what happened when the 55-mph limit was imposed in the 1970s, said David Greene, a senior researcher at the U.S. Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Lab....5/7

Team UT-Battelle to help build Anderson Habitat house
(Oak Ridger) A crew of volunteers from Team UT-Battelle recently gathered to begin construction of a Habitat for Humanity house in Clinton's Hickory Ridge Subdivision....5/8

TVA has plans for facility at the Clinch River Breeder Reactor site in Oak Ridge
 (Oak Ridger) TVA could end up collaborating with Oak Ridge National Laboratory or other DOE labs on the effort...5/8

STATE & REGIONAL:

State to cut jobs, spending
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Gov. Phil Bredesen said Wednesday he will recommend $468 million in cuts to the $28 billion state budget proposed earlier this year, including elimination of 2,011 jobs, or about 5 percent of the state's workforce....5/8

Toll vote a victory, foes say
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Opponents are claiming a victory in their fight against an interstate toll road through Hardin Valley, although state transportation officials are proceeding with a feasibility study of funding the so-called Orange Route with tolls....5/8

SECURITY:

U.S. deploys more than 43,000 unfit for combat
(USA Today) More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway...5/8
 

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL:

Myanmar Faces Pressure to Allow Major Aid Effort
(New York Times) An American diplomat warned of the possibility that the death toll could rise sharply, and a French diplomat urged the U.N. to force Myanmar to accept aid....5/8

Clinton Spurns Calls to Quit Race
(Washington Post) Now facing almost insurmountable odds, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton came under fresh pressure yesterday to end her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination against Sen. Barack Obama...5/8 [Registration Required]

ENERGY & SCIENCE POLICY:

Statement Calls for Robust Support of Defense S&T Program
(AIP Bulletin) The Coalition for National Security Research, to which the American Institute of Physics belongs, has just released a Fiscal Year 2009 Funding Statement....5/8

Inside Energy Extra - 5/7 A daily report on U.S. energy policy [pdf file; ORNL subscription - internal use]

DOE:

DOE Takes Next Steps with Restructured FutureGen Approach
(DOE Press Release) The U.S. Department of Energy today released a draft Funding Opportunity Announcement to solicit public input on the demonstration of multiple commercial-scale Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle or other clean coal power plants with cutting-edge carbon capture and storage technology under the Department’s restructured FutureGen approach....5/7

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:

Platypus DNA Tells an Odd Story
(Washington Post) Analysis of the creature's genetic code offers a new look at evolution's early efforts at making mammals....5/8 [Registration Required]

At MIT, Low-Tech Inventions with a High Impact
(Christian Science Monitor) The school's basement D-Lab exports simple solutions to the developing world....5/8

Transit Systems Travel 'Green' Track
(USA Today) "Carbon footprint" has become part of the national lexicon, and mass transit systems throughout the country are taking it in stride....5/8

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