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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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University of Texas, Austin. Washington University, St. Discover, understand, and control efficient chemical pathways for the conversion of coal and biomass into chemicals and fuels. University of Texas, Austin. Carnegie Institute of Washington. Stanford University. Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center. $20.

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Study links breathing in black carbon from polluted air to alterations in lung blood vessels

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A team led by scientists at the University of Washington calculated participants’ long-term exposure to outdoor air pollutants using specific monitoring data from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) monitoring database, and by analyzing traffic, weather patterns and land use data. Austin, Matthew Budoff, Erin D. Kaufman, R.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coal and one of the world’s highest per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases. Washington Post Foreign Service, 22 November 2009. [ World Resources Institute, October 2009. [ 17 ] Ben Fox: Britain, France back global fund for climate ills. Associated Press, 27 November 2009. [

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? Cheers — Al Louard 11. railways replacing cars and trucks, weatherizing homes, etc.),

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean. Having centralized energy production in that way allows for centralized pollution control measures, filters, so-called "clean coal" rather than depending on X number of cars, manufacturers, and consumers to deal with pollution control.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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She spent the previous year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and before that she was the Southwest correspondent for The Economist based in Austin, Tex. Galbraith joined The New York Times in June 2008 to write about renewable energy. She is an avid runner and hiker, having grown up camping most summers in the Sierra Nevada.

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

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Tesla just opened its new Austin, Texas factory in April . Jay Inslee, governor of the state of Washington, explicitly announced that his state would follow California’s lead on the 2035 ban deadline, and another 12 states have typically stayed in lockstep with California on auto emissions standards.