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Nevada Legislators Grill Elon Musk's Boring Company Over Safety and Environmental Violations

Elon Musk's Boring Company faced intense scrutiny from Nevada legislators on Tuesday regarding its safety and environmental record as it works to construct an underground transit system beneath Las Vegas. During a more than three-hour hearing, the state's growth and infrastructure interim standing committee presented a litany of violations the tunneling startup has accumulated since 2019, according to Fortune.

The violations included citations for chemical burns, digging too close to the Las Vegas monorail, hundreds of environmental violations, and wastewater dumping into county manholes. Legislators also questioned state regulators about their oversight of the Boring Company and explored ways the legislature could improve monitoring efforts, Fortune reported.

In other news, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the owner of the only active nickel mine in the US is testing a new process that could eke out a bit more nickel. According to MIT Technology Review, the Eagle Mine's nickel concentration is falling and could soon drop too low to warrant digging. Earlier this year, the mine's owner began testing a process developed by the startup Allonnia. The process involves mixing a fermentation-derived broth with concentrated ore to capture and remove impurities, allowing nickel production from lower-quality ore. Kent Sorenson, Allonnia's chief technology officer, said this approach could help companies continue operating sites that have burned.

Meanwhile, just over a year ago, blockchain industry executives and investors gathered in Washington, D.C., during inauguration weekend, celebrating the ascension of Donald Trump, who had embraced the crypto sector on the campaign trail, according to Fortune. However, whispers began spreading that Trump had launched his own memecoin. By the end of a DJ set by Snoop Dogg, the Trump coin had crossed $1 billion.

In scientific news, Nature reported a correction to an article published on May 31, 2023, regarding the coupling of tropical water and interannual CO2 growth rate. The correction addresses a misapplication of the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, which artificially inflated the sample size. The corrected analysis resulted in slightly larger P values (0.1 on average) than previously reported. The corrected article can be found at https:doi.org10.1038s41586-023-06056-x.

Also, Nature reported on the ontogeny and transcriptional regulation of Thetis cells (TCs). Researchers identified a population of RORγt progenitors, termed Thetis-Lymphoid Tissue inducer progenitors (TLP), that give rise to the immediate TC progenitor (TCP) and the Lymphoid Tissue inducer progenitor (LTiP), and identify PU.1 as the.

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