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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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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Massachusetts: $2,500,000. Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Lowell Regional Transit Authority, Massachusetts: $1,500,000.

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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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Samuel Hazen at the University of Massachusetts will lead a team to create a library of grass transcription factors for the energy crop model system Brachypodium distachyon. University of Massachusetts. University of Massachusetts. University of Texas at Arlington. DeAngelis, Kristen. Dubilier, Nicole. Gross, Stephen.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Development of a Dedicated, High-Value Biofuels Crop The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will develop an. Massachusetts. Arlington). Massachusetts Institute. Massachusetts Institute. develop processes that use water and recycled CO2 as the. Lead organization.

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