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UDRI Awarded $49.5M Grant to Develop Advanced Jet Fuels and Combustion Technologies

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million Air Force research grant to develop advanced jet fuels and combustion technologies. Research will also target combustion technologies, with a goal of reducing emissions of gaseous and particulate matter, Ballal said. “ The University of Dayton Research Institute recently was awarded a $49.5 Earlier post.).

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Harvard SPH large-scale study links PM2.5 levels below EPA standards with higher death rates

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We need to go after coal plants that still aren’t using scrubbers to clean their emissions, as well as other sources of particles like traffic and wood smoke. million people—between 2003 and 2008 and followed them each year until they died. This study was funded by NIEHS ES000002, and by EPA grant RD-83479801.

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Federal Appeals Court vacates EPA Cross-State Air Pollution Rule

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CSAPR (also called the Transport Rule) was finalized in July 2011 and replaced and strengthened the requirements of the 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), which the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ordered EPA to revise in 2008. statutory text grants EPA authority to require upwind States to. Earlier post.). First, the.

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EPA Sends Proposed GHG Endangerment Finding to White House for Review

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The US Environmental Protection Agency has submitted a proposed endangerment finding on greenhouse gas emissions to the White House. The document does not propose any requirements on any sources of greenhouse-gas emissions. If the proposal is issued, it will undergo public comment and public hearings before it becomes final.

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EIA Energy Outlook 2011 more than doubles estimates of US shale gas resources; higher production at lower prices

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Energy efficiency improvements and the increased use of renewables are other key factors that moderate the projected growth in energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Assuming no changes in policy related to greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide emissions grow slowly, but do not again reach 2005 levels until 2027. Transportation updates.

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Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

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An offset is a measurable reduction, avoidance, or sequestration of GHG emissions from a source not covered by an emission reduction program. In this way, offsets would complement the more traditional emissions trading that can occur between two covered sources. what would have happened anyway).

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Study Finds Controlling Soot May Be Fastest Method to Reduce Arctic Ice Loss and Global Warming; Second-Leading Cause of Global Warming After CO2

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Soot—black and brown particles that absorb solar radiation—comes from two types of sources: fossil fuels such as diesel, coal, gasoline, jet fuel; and solid biofuels such as wood, manure, dung, and other solid biomass used for home heating and cooking around the world. He also found that soot emissions kill more than 1.5 Dessler et al.,

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