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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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The facility is used by the LRTA to store, fuel, maintain, and repair transportation vehicles (buses, vans, tow trucks etc.) Arlington Transit – ART, Virginia: $1,500,000. Milwaukee County Department of Transportation and Public Works, Wisconsin: $210,000. 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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Microbial ecology and genomics of carbon-storing bacteria in rhizosphere soils. University of Wisconsin, Madison. University of Texas at Arlington. Plant associated metagenomes--Microbial community diversity and host control of community assembly across model and emerging plant ecological genomics systems. DeAngelis, Kristen.