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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Discover, understand, and control efficient chemical pathways for the conversion of coal and biomass into chemicals and fuels. Louisiana State University. Argonne National Laboratory. Institute for Atom- Efficient Chemical Transformations (IACT). $19. Argonne National Laboratory.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Reduced Output.

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