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DOE awards $100M in 2nd funding round for 32 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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The centers selected for the second round of funding will help lay the scientific groundwork for fundamental advances in solar energy, electrical energy storage, carbon capture and sequestration, materials and chemistry by design, biosciences, and extreme environments. Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI).

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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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The four Ideas Lab projects are: Nitroplast: A Light-Driven, Synthetic Nitrogen-Fixing Organelle ($1.89M). However, there is only one recorded sighting of this bacterium, which grows in toxic environments. —John Wingfield, NSF’s assistant director for Biological Sciences. Team members are John W.

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Historic Montana youth climate lawsuit upheld by state Supreme Court

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A youth-led climate lawsuit won another historic decision today, with the Montana Supreme Court upholding a 2023 ruling that the state must consider climate change and environmental protections in the approval process for new energy projects. The lawsuit, Held v.

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Study of lead isotopes provides insight into aerosols transport from Asia to US

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Transport models are uncertain ,” says Stephanie Ewing, lead author of the paper and an assistant professor of pedology and soil biogeochemistry at Montana State University. of Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source, a national user facility that generates intense x-rays to probe the fundamental properties of substances. Technol. ,

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Opinion: Busting The “Canadian Bakken” Myth

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The financial pages of Canadian newspapers have been full of headlines lately announcing the potential of two large shale oil fields in the Northwest Territories said to contain enough oil to rival the Bakken Formation of North Dakota and Montana. enthused the Financial Post. WTI crude closed at $59.13 on Friday, June 5 th.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Successful technologies will significantly increase the confidence that CO 2 placed in geologic formations is being accurately tracked and remains permanently stored, thus protecting human health and the environment. Montana State University , Bozeman, Mont. Columbia University , New York, N.Y. Princeton University , Princeton, N.J.

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Norways Statoil to acquire Brigham Exploration for US$4.4B cash; entry into the US Bakken and Three Forks tight oil plays

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Brigham, based in Austin, Texas, has a strong position in the Bakken and Three Forks tight oil plays in the Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana. The oil produced from the Bakken and Three Forks formations is a light crude quality. The total equity value is approximately US$4.4

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