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California High-Speed Rail Project

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Statement of Federal Railroad Administration Deputy Administrator Amit Bose on Resolution of California High-Speed Rail Project Litigation “The U.S. Department of Transportation and the State of California have reached a final settlement to resolve the litigation over the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) termination of its Fiscal Year 2010 Cooperative Agreement with the California High-Speed Rail […]

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Economic Devastation From Uncoordinated Reopenings

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New, peer-reviewed research published today by the Social Analytics Lab at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows the devastating cost of the current chaotic and uncoordinated reopening of states and cities across the US. The study, which used data from mobile phones, network […]

COVID-19 Financial Losses in the Finance Sector

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Financial losses from treating COVID-19 patients could devastate the health care sector, experts say.  The federal government’s Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES) includes hundreds of billions of dollars of funding for the health care sector, but with health care facilities facing unprecedented expenditures, that might not be enough, according to an economics expert […]

OFFSHORE WIND FARMS

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Rhode Island’s five-turbine Block Island Wind Farm was the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States. (Credit: Shaun Dakin) While Federal Government Orders Additional Environmental Review of Offshore Wind Projects, Some Ask Why Great Lakes Project Is Not Included A recent move by the federal government to expand the environmental review of the […]