Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2015

A researcher at The University of Texas at Austin will receive two grants totaling $15 million to study switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ), with a focus on how it can become a sustainable source of bioenergy. As glaciers and climate change occurred, their populations were pushed south. Both grants begin this fall.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2009

The long-term storage of CO2 by injection in underground geologic reservoirs is expected to play a major role in addressing climate change concerns. NETL manages the partnership program for DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2009

Geologic carbon sequestration is expected to play an important future role in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and combating climate change. These earlier phases determined that the PCOR partnership region has the geological potential to sequester more than half of the region’s anticipated CO2 emissions over the next 100 years.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

One of single largest projects comes from Jeff Dangl at the University of North Carolina and his colleagues and focuses on the rhizosphere—the narrow region where microbes in the soil colonize and interact with plant roots. —Eddy Rubin, DOE JGI Director.

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