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Oleophobic hydrophobic magnetic sponge selectively soaks up oil, sparing water and wildlife

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Oil spill clean-up is an expensive and complicated process that often harms marine life and further damages the environment. The OHM (oleophobic hydrophobic magnetic) nanocomposite slurry can be used to coat any cheap, commercially available sponge. —Vikas Nandwana. Vikas Nandwana, Stephanie M.

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Russian researchers develop wasteless joint processing of electric furnace and ladle slag to produce pig iron and clinker

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For this purpose, borate glass, a cheap waste material that also requires processing, was added to it. Our technology allows the complete utilization of selected types of slag and thus solves the problem of anthropogenic load on the environment. Being located within the city limits, they pollute the environment.

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US tire manufacturers urge Congress to implement policies for more sustainable transportation and infrastructure

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USTMA is encouraging additional research to assess stormwater runoff from roadways to increase the state of knowledge on constituents in roadway runoff, the potential impact of roadway runoff on the environment, and effective strategies to treat roadway runoff. Incentives for the use and manufacturing of retreaded tires.

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Assessment of US CAFE fuel economy standards finds big savings on fuel and emissions since inception

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Greenwald served as the Deputy Director for Climate, Environment, and Energy Efficiency in the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis until January 2017. She is a non-resident fellow at the Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. —Judith Greenwald, co-author.

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#EVmyValentine: Your Creative Odes to Electric Vehicles

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Many of you also mentioned how EVs are greener because they don’t pollute with tailpipe emissions. of Energy to Yale and MIT , that EVs are better for the environment from cradle to grave.) The fuel is cheap, The maintenance low, No emissions, It’s fast, not slow.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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This technology could reduce electricity/energy bills, pollution from power plants, risks of blackouts, the need for new power plants, and pollution from power plant generation. Their goal is to test an innovative electrolyzer concept for the cheap production of green (CO 2 -free) hydrogen for a decarbonized future.

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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

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What about reducing pollution in urban and poor communities? Nonprofits are already using cheap sensors to pinpoint heat islands in cities, or neighborhoods where air pollution disproportionately affects communities of color. With this information, policy changes can lighten the unfair distribution of harm.

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