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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is retrofitting 36 school buses with technologies to cut soot and reduce idling. Franklin Soil & Water Conservation District is replacing three school buses and four agriculture engines and converting three irrigation pumps to clean burning electric. New Jersey and New York.

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$112.5M awarded to research consortia studying effects of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf of Mexico

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These teams will investigate the fate of petroleum in the environment; the impacts of the spill; and the development of new tools and technology for responding to future spills and improving mitigation and restoration. Project Title: Consortium for Advanced Research of Hydrocarbon Transport in the Environment (CARTHE). Rabalais, Ph.D.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Connecticut Department of Transportation, Connecticut: $7,000,000. Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Denver Regional Transportation District, Colorado: $770,000.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. NEL Hydrogen (Wallingford, Connecticut). Electric Grid OT Cybersecurity Dashboard for Control Room Environments, $600,000. Alkaline Water Electrolysis, $100,000.