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Inorganic mercury converted to more toxic and bio-accumulative monomethylmercury in ocean waters, possibly by microbes

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A team led by the University of Alberta has confirmed that inorganic mercury (Hg) found worldwide in ocean water is transformed into monomethylmercury (MMHg)—a potent and bio-accumulative neurotoxin—in the seawater. Louis, Holger Hintelmann, Jane L. Kirk (2011) Methylation of inorganic mercury in polar marine waters.

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$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

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They also generate environmental problems from degrading soil to runoff into rivers where they pollute fresh waters and coastal zones. it needs to be converted into a form that plants can use. Cyanobacteria are blue-green algae of which certain strains are capable of gathering and converting atmospheric nitrogen.

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

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Franklin Soil & Water Conservation District is replacing three school buses and four agriculture engines and converting three irrigation pumps to clean burning electric. Louis Clean Cities is replacing six school busses. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. New Jersey and New York. New York.

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DOE awarding $1.16B to 9 battery component manufacturing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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The demonstration plant will produce NMC811 generating zero waste and 70% less greenhouse gases by using only 10% of the water and 30% of the energy versus traditional battery material production methods. The plant will be an expansion of its existing facility in St. Component Manufacturing (Cathode).

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DOE awarding $1.16B to 9 battery component manufacturing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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The demonstration plant will produce NMC811 generating zero waste and 70% less greenhouse gases by using only 10% of the water and 30% of the energy versus traditional battery material production methods. The plant will be an expansion of its existing facility in St. Component Manufacturing (Cathode).

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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The project will convert local landfill gas (LFG), a renewable fuel source, to compressed natural gas and develop five CNG fueling stations throughout the metro-Atlanta area. Louis, San Antonio/Austin, and Oklahoma City as well as a refueling corridor along I-10 in Louisiana (New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lake Charles).

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Bladon Jets, SR Drives and Jaguar Land Rover Win Funding for Gas Turbine Electric Vehicle Project

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Bladon suggests that in an hybrid vehicle application, with no water-cooling system, oil or catalytic converter, the Micro-Jet engine can provide vehicle weight savings of up to 15%—with a consequent reduction in fuel consumption and carbon emissions—compared to a piston engine. High temperature axial flow turbine.