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NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Lead organization. Description.

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DOE selects 6 projects for $30M in funding to boost unconventional oil and natural gas recovery

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Hydraulic Fracture Test Site II (HFTS2) – Delaware Basin The Institute will carry out multiple experiments to evaluate well completion, design optimization, and environmental impact quantification. University of Louisiana at Lafayette. DOE Funding: $1,498,000 Non-DOE Funding: $374,000.

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

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Delaware River and Bay Authority is repowering two Tier 0 marine propulsion engines in one vessel with Tier 3 engines. Delaware and Virginia. Franklin Soil & Water Conservation District is replacing three school buses and four agriculture engines and converting three irrigation pumps to clean burning electric. Puerto Rico.

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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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Lead Institution: Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Lead Investigator: Nancy N. Rabalais, Ph.D. Project Title: The Effects of the Macondo Oil Spill on Coastal Ecosystems. Lead Institution: University of South Florida. Lead Investigator: Jacqueline Dixon, Ph.D. Lead Institution: Tulane University. Lead Investigator: Vijay T.

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

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Wilmington, Delaware). Prometheus Innovations (Lafayette, Louisiana). Mesofluidic Inline Separation for Produced Water Treatment, $246,979. Prometheus Innovations, LLC (Lafayette, Louisiana). Alkaline Water Electrolysis, $100,000. Eaton Corporation (Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin). IP Group, Inc. OpenOA, $249,950.

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

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It covers ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont). Mr. Donovan drafted the “Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative” for the State of Louisiana. Northeastern Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

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