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Vermont Business Magazine The Biden-Harris Administration announced Tuesday the availability of nearly $11 billion in grants and loans for rural energy and utility providers across the country to bring affordable, reliable clean energy to their communities. It is the largest investment in rural electrification since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act into law in 1936. Funding is available through two programs under President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program: $9.7 billion to eligible rural electric cooperatives for deploying renewable energy systems, zero-emission and carbon capture systems; Powering Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) program: $1 billion in partially forgivable loans to renewable-energy developers and electric service providers, including municipals, cooperatives, and investor-owned utilities to help finance large-scale renewable energy projects.
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Vermont Business Magazine The American Lung Association and University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine have begun recruitment in Vermont for a first-of-its-kind longitudinal study to track and analyze lung health in millennials at the peak of their lung health. In this national, 35-site study, scientists will follow 4,000 adults (aged 25-35) for approximately five years after their initial interviews to evaluate how their environment, lifestyle and physical activity habits affect respiratory health.
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Vermont Business Magazine Perhaps the greatest recognition for a nurse to receive is the DAISY Award and especially during National Nurses Week. Rutland Regional celebrated four extraordinary nurses and one nurse team this week at a ceremony in the hospital gardens with nurse leaders, nursing staff and patients and their families. The DAISY (an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System) Foundation was started in Glen Allen, California by family members of J. Patrick Barnes, who died from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), a little-known but not uncommon auto-immune disease. As a way of thanking Barnes’ nurses, his family established the award program to recognize the super-human efforts nurses everywhere perform every day.