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Opportunities Shine in Community Solar

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State legislatures and public service commissions are beginning to authorize community solar, although faced with opposition from dinosaur monopoly utilities, many are pilot programs of limited megawatt scope like the pilot authorized earlier this year by Maryland House Bill 1087. But community solar appears poised to shine brightly.

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Autocar Chooses Alabama For $120M Investment

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Autocar worked closely with the Alabama Department of Commerce , the Jefferson County Commission, the City of Center Point, the City of Birmingham, AIDT, the Birmingham Business Alliance and others on the project, code named Project Sunrise. Autocar was founded in 1897 and is the oldest motor vehicle brand in the United States.

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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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Locations are bringing higher ed resources and high-tech businesses together to plant the seeds for market-ready advanced technology at incubators and innovation institutes, and to create the STEM-savvy workforce that will fill these new jobs. Chicago is rising up in ranks to become the next big place for technology innovation.

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LEED Commercial Interiors can Save the Planet

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The CI v4 EAc1: Enhanced Commissioning credit goes farther than the fundamental commissioning incorporating changes from the v4 prerequisite that make this credit more advantageous and less first dollar cost intensive than in v 2009. Be aware that building envelope commissioning is now included in this credit. Kaplow, P.A.

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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

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Additionally, the bill establishes a Commission for the Innovation and Advancement of Carbon Markets and Sustainable Tree Plantings charged with developing a plan to achieve the State’s carbon mitigation goals. The Commission is tasked with examining issues of “environmental justice” and sustainable communities for all Marylanders.

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Top 10 Construction Companies in the USA

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NASA gave one of the Biggest known to Bechtel to design, construct, and commission Mobile Launcher 2, and its Ground Structure which will be used to assemble and launch the Space Launch System rocket. The headquarter of the Whiting-turner company situated in Baltimore, United States. The company was founded in the year 1909.

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FEATURE STORY: Racing To Be Ready – U.S. Ports Prepare for Post Panamax Era

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Currently, the Port of Baltimore and Port of Virginia (in Norfolk) are the only East Coast ports that can accommodate the large ships. BALTIMORE IS READY TO GREET THE BIG SHIPS. The Port of Baltimore is one of only two East Coast ports, along with the Port of Virginia in Norfolk, now able to handle post-Panamax ships.