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The Arkansas Senate Committee on Children and Youth chose to meet in Harrison on Monday, July 24, at the JPH Convention Center. The committee, chaired by senator Bryan King, discussed the plan to repeal Acts 851 and 819, which apply discrimination protections and potential tax exemptions to data centers and crypto miners. The committee recognized that crypto mining operations involve the use of fan-cooled systems, which can generate noise pollution with low-frequency hums from a considerable distance. They also acknowledged that, though it can be high in cost, liquid cooling systems do solve the noise problem and some crypto miners in Arkansas have already done it.
State legislators are cutting through the noise: The noise pollution of crypto mining and its effects on children and education will be the topic of an upcoming Arkansas senate committee meeting in Harrison. The Arkansas Senate Committee on Children and Youth will meet at 1 p.m. on Monday, July 24, at the JPH Convention Center at the South Campus of North Arkansas College, located at 1515 Pioneer Drive in Harrison.
Members of the Arkansas Senate Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs raised their collective voices for sunshine in the public interest last week when they defeated Rep. Mary Bentley s poorly conceived anti-FOIA House Bill 1610.
The Arkansas Senate Committee on Judiciary approved a bill with an emergency clause that would require the full physical addresses of Level 3 and Level 4 sex offenders to be made public.