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USDA and DOE award $12.2M to 10 research projects to accelerate bioenergy crop production and spur economic impact

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Overall, the USDA and DOE projects are designed to improve special crops to be grown for biofuels—including selected trees and grasses—by increasing their yield, quality and ability to adapt to extreme environments. Braun, University of Missouri, Columbia. Bartley, University of Oklahoma, Norman. x giganteus (M.

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Vanderbilt meeting concludes time to begin developing climate change adaptation strategies for transportation sector

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The meeting was held in June at Vanderbilt University and was sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Transportation Research (VECTOR), Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment (VIEE) and the University of Memphis’ Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute. Regardless of the success of mitigation efforts, we will need to adapt.

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US study of miners links heavy exposure to diesel exhaust to increased risk of lung cancer death; researchers suggest implications for urban areas with high exhaust concentrations

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Some of the higher average elemental carbon levels reported in cities include Los Angeles (4.0 Environmental exposure to average elemental carbon levels in the 2-6 µg/m 3 range over a lifetime as would be experienced in highly polluted cities approximates cumulative exposures experienced by underground miners with low exposures in our study.

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