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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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“Electric cars will not save the climate. Behavioral change is hard How willing are people to break their car dependency and other energy-related behaviors to address climate change? In fact, some 74 percent of those polled indicated they were already “proud of what [they are] currently doing” to combat climate change.

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New model framework for improving predictions of black carbon’s radiative effect on climate

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For years, scientists have known that these particles are affecting Earth’s warming climate, but measuring their exact effect has proved elusive. Absorption by black carbon strongly affects regional and global climate. —Claudio Mazzoleni, professor of physics at Michigan Tech and co-author. —Claudio Mazzoleni.

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Pew Center on Global Climate Change and GPI facilitating new Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative

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The EOR Initiative is facilitated by the Great Plains Institute (GPI) and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The fiscal struggles facing federal and state governments combined with a challenging political climate demand new ideas for US energy policy.

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ARPA-E selects SwRI to create more effective burner to reduce methane emissions

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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will collaborate with the University of Michigan (UM) to use additive manufacturing and machine learning to create an advanced burner that will eliminate 99.5% The plan seeks to reduce methane emissions and promote American innovation and manufacturing of new technologies to achieve climate goals.

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U of Michigan researchers map steel flow in US; suggest yield improvements focus on sheet metal forming in car industry

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Researchers at the University of Michigan have mapped the annual flow of steel in the US, with the goal of achieving a detailed understanding of the flow to target increased material efficiency and the development of the circular economy. The steel industry accounts for 30% of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

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GM and Stellantis to receive over $1 billion from Biden administration for EV projects

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These include $500 million for GM’s Lansing Grand River Assembly plant in Michigan, $334.8 The facilities that would be supported by the grant are located in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, and Georgia. As noted in an Automotive News report, the US federal government would be contributing $1.7

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Flaring practices allow more methane into the atmosphere than thought; simple fixes can have big impact

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New research led by the University of Michigan shows that in the real world, this practice is far less effective than estimated, releasing five times more methane in the US than previously thought. Image credit: Alan Gorchov Negron, University of Michigan and Yulia Chen of Stanford University.