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HEI study links fossil fuel combustion with more than 1 million deaths globally

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Coal combustion alone was responsible for half of those deaths, with natural gas and oil combustion accounting for the other half. across the industrialized nations of the global north, windblown dust was a major source of PM 2.5 The study team, led by Dr. Erin McDuffie and Dr. Randall Martin of Washington University in St.

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Iowa State to manage biorefinery projects for new Manufacturing USA Institute

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Iowa State University will bring its expertise in biorenewable technologies and pilot plant operations to the country’s 10th Manufacturing USA Institute. That could save the chemical industry more than $9 billion annually, according to the US Department of Energy’s announcement of the institute. Earlier post.)

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