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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?President Joe Bidens nominee for secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, appeared on a smooth path to quick confirmation, pledging to senators on Thursday to help carry out the administrations ambitious agenda to rebuild the nations infrastructure.Watch Buttigieg confirmation hearing in the video player above. Speaking at his confirmation hearing with his husband sitting nearby, Buttigieg pointed to a generational opportunity to create new jobs, fight economic inequality and stem climate change. He pledged more conversations with Congress on programs that will require significant investments in the months to come. We need to build our economy back, better than ever, and the Department of Transportation can play a central role in this, the 39-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, told the Senate Commerce Committee. He pointed to opportunities in updating auto emissions regulations that President Donald Trump had loosened and building out a network of charging stations for electric vehicles.Buttigieg did not specify where money coul stanley cup d come from for big investments in infrastructure, but wouldn ;t rule out a tax increase and floated the possibility of stanley cup a major change in how highways a stanley cup re funded.Buttigieg, a former Democratic presidential candidate, was one of the few 2020 contenders to outright endorse converting from the current Highway Trust Fund, which is paid for through the gas tax, to a vehicle miles traveled alternative that w Ewqv Treasury Secretary Yellen, other finance leaders urge to boost fight against global food insecurity
STOCKHOLM AP 鈥?Three scientists on Wednesday were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contributions to the development of lithium-ion batteries, which have reshaped energy storage and transformed cars, mobile phones and many other devices in an increasingly portable and electronic world.The prize went to John B. Goodenough of the University of Texas; M. Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York at Binghamton; and Akira Yoshino of Asahi Kasei Corporation and Meijo University in Japan.Goran Hansson, secretary general of stanley cup the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said the prize was about a rechargeable world.In a statement, the committee said lithium-ion batteries have rev nike dunk olutionized our lives 鈥?and the laureates laid the foundation of a wireless, fossil fuel-free society.The Nobel committee said the lithium-ion battery has its roots in the oil crisis in the 1970s, when Whittingham was working to develop methods aimed at leading to fossil fuel-fr air max 1 ee energy technologies.The prizes come with a 9-million kronor $918,000 cash award, a gold medal and a diploma that are conferred on Dec. 10 鈥?the anniversary of Nobel death in 1896 鈥?in Stockholm and in Oslo, Norway.Prize founder Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite, decided the physics, chemistry, medicine and literature prizes should be awarded in Stockholm, and the peace prize in Oslo.On Tuesday, Canadian-born James Peebles won the Physi