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$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

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Plants need nitrogen to grow, and by 2015, more than 190.4 Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Susan Rosser, University of Glasgow; and Bill Rutherford, Imperial College London. NSF solely awarded one of the four projects. million tons of it will be needed to supply the world’s food. Oxygen-Tolerant Nitrogenase ($1.87M).

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DOE Awards Cooperative Agreement for $668M Post-Combustion Carbon Capture Project

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million tons per year of CO2 will begin in 2015, and the demonstration project will end in 2019. If, as expected, the CAP system reduces overall costs by the amounts now projected, then AEP will consider the application of CAP technology to both existing and new pulverized coal-based units in the AEP system. Sequestration of 1.5

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DOE selects 16 research projects for more than $19M in funding to advance Solid Oxide Fuel Cell technology

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In Fiscal Year (FY) 2015, NETL issued two funding opportunities announcements (FOAs) to support programs that enable the development and deployment of this energy technology. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The projects selected under the two FOAs will receive funding through NETL’s Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Program.

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

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Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. In 2015–nearly 90% of emissions. Representatives Henry A. Reduced Output.

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