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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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Oregon State University. University of Wisconsin at Madison. Global Algae Innovations. Scale-up of Novel Algae Drying and Extraction Unit Operations. North Carolina State University. Scaling Up Biocrude Derived Anode Material (BDAM). Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion. Research Triangle Institute. 10,000,000.

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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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Franklin Soil & Water Conservation District is replacing three school buses and four agriculture engines and converting three irrigation pumps to clean burning electric. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. North Carolina. Beyond Toxics is replacing one truck and installing advanced exhaust controls on seven trucks.

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$112.5M awarded to research consortia studying effects of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf of Mexico

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Member Institutions: The Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Minnesota, SINTEF Norway, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Research Applied Technology Education Services (Rates)/Coastal Oil Spill Simulation System (COSS). Lead Institution: Texas A&M University at College Station.

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USDA and DOE select 13 biofuels projects for more than $41M in awards

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University of Wisconsin ($7 million). Oregon State University. The Dual Effect of Tubulin Manipulation on Populus Wood Formation and Drought Tolerance Goal: Determine how tubulin levels and/or tubulin protein modifications affect wood development and water use in Populus. 1,496,000.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Lane Transit District, Oregon: $3,000,000. Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon, Oregon: $750,000. Solar Thermal System: A solar thermal system on the building roof will provide hot water for the operations building and the maintenance building. Madison Metro Transit, Wisconsin: $150,000.

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

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A team led by Joseph Spatafora at Oregon State University and Jason Stajich at University of California at Riverside is planning to fill in gaps in the Fungal Tree of Life by sequencing 1,000 fungal genomes over the next five years, providing at least two reference genomes for each of the 577 recognized families classified under Fungi.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Sonoma County Water Agency "Sparky" by Hymotion, May 2007, (Santa Rosa, CA), contact: sherwood@scwa.ca.gov Wisconsin Public Power Inc. Burbank Water and Power 2007 Prius by Energy CS, May 2007, (Burbank, CA). Wisconsin Public Power Inc. Full size photo. or s.peeraer@spinnovation.com. Contact info: John Joyce.

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