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8 Toyota manufacturing facilities recognized by US EPA for reduction in energy intensity

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Earlier this year, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. TEMA) received its eighth consecutive ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award for its continued leadership in protecting the environment through energy efficiency and management. Hot water boiler linkage (Toyota Motor Mfg.

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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. The scientists hope to re-engineer this machinery so that it can be transferred into a new host bacterial chassis. Artificial fertilizers are costly and are produced using vast amounts of fossil fuel.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Advanced Flow Meter for Extreme Environments (AFMEE), $100,000 MicroNuclear LLC, Franklin, Tenn. Commercializing 3D Printable Feedstocks for the Advanced Manufacturing of Energy Products, $300,000 MilliporeSigma, St. Louis , Mo.

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

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $8 million to communities in 21 states and Puerto Rico to reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of diesel engines through the agency’s Diesel Emission Reduction Act ( DERA ) program. EPA estimates that every $1 in DERA funding generates up to $13 in health care savings.

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ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

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Washington University in St. The Washington University in St. Louis team will use readily available and inexpensive commercial polymers to create a membrane for use in redox flow batteries. Reinforced AEM Separators Based on Triblock Copolymers for Electrode-Decoupled RFBs. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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