To date, EPA has dedicated more than $29 million to address the Gold King Mine release.

 

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for March 20, 2017. 

Government officials announced an investment of more than $62.3 million for projects under the Clean Water and Wastewater Fund.

Axine Water receives $1 million from the Government of Canada.

Axine Water receives $1 million from the Government of Canada.

Utilities call for safe, reliable, locally controlled water supplies during National Water Policy Fly-in.

 

Today 3D XPoint memory, called a ‘a new class of memory’ by Intel, reaches the market in the form of an SSD. The first product is a 375GB SSD. In Q2 a 750GB SSD is planned and a 1.5TB SSD is scheduled for H2. Micron, the co-owner of the fab line in Utah where the …

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Sometimes in government you don’t have to do much to have a big effect, Ed confides to his diary. When I was out and about last week visiting the Northern Powerhouse (RIP), one of the managing directors asked for a word in my shell-like. “What to I have to do to get approved for the …

Read full article: Ed Sniffs Some Luvly Jubbly

Fabless chip companies supplied  30% of the world’s IC sales in 2016 (up from 18% ten  in 2006), reports IC Insights.     Figure 1 depicts the 2016 fabless company share of IC sales by company headquarters location. As shown, at 53%, the U.S. companies held the dominant share of fabless IC sales last year, …

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TSMC is considering building a second fab in the USA. Bloomberg reports that TSMC director of corporate communications Elizabeth Sun has said that the US is among several sites which TSMC is considering for its 3nm fab. “We have not ruled out going to the U.S., but the formal decision will not be made until …

Read full article: TSMC considering building 3nm fab in USA