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USDA awards nearly $10M for research on using beetle-killed trees as feedstock for on-site thermochemical conversion technologies

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded nearly $10 million to a consortium of academic, industry and government organizations led by Colorado State University (CSU) and their partners to research using insect-killed trees in the Rockies as a sustainable feedstock for bioenergy.

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Obama: no Keystone XL if significant exacerbation of GHG; Canada: no problem

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JUNE 26, 2013

In his talk at Georgetown University outlining his climate action plan, President Barack Obama suggested that the controversial Keystone XL pipeline would only be built if the project “ does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution. ”. It’s relevant. —President Obama.

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DOE fielding aircraft-based study of aerosols generated by wildfires and agriculture burns in US

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JULY 8, 2013

Sponsored by the DOE’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility, the Biomass Burning Observation Project (BBOP) will conduct aircraft observations to study the near-field evolution of changes in chemical, optical, and microphysical properties of aerosols generated in biomass burning events.

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Expansion of sugarcane crop in Brazil to areas previously occupied by crops or pastureland leads to local cooling

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APRIL 19, 2011

A new study led by Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology has found that the expansion of sugarcane crop in Brazil in areas previously occupied by other Brazilian crops cools the local climate. The study is published in the second issue of Nature Climate Change. Nature Climate Change doi: 10.1038/nclimate1067.

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NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Montana State University. The team, which includes researchers from Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota, seeks to identify a framework of carbon mitigation strategies that would minimize conflicts with food security and clean energy production priorities. Murray State University. University of Southern Mississippi.

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Study finds global rivers and streams emitting 3x IPCC estimates of the GHG N2O

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

That’s three times the amount estimated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change and stratospheric ozone destruction. —Jake Beaulieu of the University of Notre Dame and the US EPA, and lead author of the PNAS paper.

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New Hampshire Global Climate Change Ozone

Satellite-data derived study finds meeting renewable fuel targets is theoretically feasible, but would change significantly impact agriculture mix

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MARCH 1, 2012

Roughly 80% of the current recovered harvest in the US would need to be re-allocated for the production of bioenergy crops to meet current renewable fuel targets with existing technology, according to a new study using satellite data led by researchers from the University of Montana.

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Study of lead isotopes provides insight into aerosols transport from Asia to US

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

Transport models are uncertain ,” says Stephanie Ewing, lead author of the paper and an assistant professor of pedology and soil biogeochemistry at Montana State University. She conducted the research while a postdoctoral researcher in Berkeley Lab’s Earth Sciences Division. —John Christensen. Stephanie A. Ewing, John N.

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DOE Regional Partnership Initiates CO2 Injection in Lignite Coal Seam

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MARCH 11, 2009

The long-term storage of CO2 by injection in underground geologic reservoirs is expected to play a major role in addressing climate change concerns. NETL manages the partnership program for DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy.

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DOE Regional Partnership Begins Core Sampling for Large-Volume Carbon Sequestration Test

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MAY 23, 2009

Geologic carbon sequestration is expected to play an important future role in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and combating climate change. These earlier phases determined that the PCOR partnership region has the geological potential to sequester more than half of the region’s anticipated CO2 emissions over the next 100 years.

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Study identifies Bakken Formation alone as responsible for ~2% of global ethane emissions

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APRIL 29, 2016

The Bakken Formation, a shale oil and gas field in North Dakota and Montana, is emitting roughly 2% (about 250,000 tons per year) of the globe’s ethane, according to new study led by researchers at the University of Michigan. Credit: Lee Murray, NASA GISS/Columbia University. Click to enlarge. Gvakharia, A. Peischl, T.

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Global Ozone Emissions North Dakota

The United States plans to build charging piles in the wilderness

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

With rolling mountains and boundless plains, Montana has magnificent scenery and vast horizons. On Montana’s 147,000 square miles of land, the state’s latest count of charging points was just 57, most of which were concentrated in towns and cities rather than along highways. It seems to be designed for self-driving travel.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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APRIL 10, 2010

Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. As Senators Graham, Kerry and Lieberman try to resuscitate the climate change bill by introducing a revised bill in mid-to-late April, twenty-three U.S. Western Climate Initiative (WCI). Representatives Henry A.

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USDA awards nearly $10M for research on using beetle-killed trees as feedstock for on-site thermochemical conversion technologies

Obama: no Keystone XL if significant exacerbation of GHG; Canada: no problem

DOE fielding aircraft-based study of aerosols generated by wildfires and agriculture burns in US

Expansion of sugarcane crop in Brazil to areas previously occupied by crops or pastureland leads to local cooling

NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

Study finds global rivers and streams emitting 3x IPCC estimates of the GHG N2O

Satellite-data derived study finds meeting renewable fuel targets is theoretically feasible, but would change significantly impact agriculture mix

Study of lead isotopes provides insight into aerosols transport from Asia to US

DOE Regional Partnership Initiates CO2 Injection in Lignite Coal Seam

DOE Regional Partnership Begins Core Sampling for Large-Volume Carbon Sequestration Test

Study identifies Bakken Formation alone as responsible for ~2% of global ethane emissions

The United States plans to build charging piles in the wilderness

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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