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DOE awards $35M to 12 ARPA-E projects to reduce methane emissions; 5 on natural gas engines

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The proposed MOC will use a hydrothermally stable formulation to promote high conversion efficiencies in low-temperature and high-water concentration environments.(Selection Emissions of regulated pollutants such as carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, and formaldehyde will be reduced, while nitrogen oxides will stay the same.

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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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Four teams of researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom recently were awarded more than $12 million to begin a program of novel research to revolutionize current farming methods by giving crops the ability to thrive without using costly, polluting artificial fertilizers.

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

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San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District is replacing 48 trucks model year 1991-2003 with trucks powered by 2013 or newer model year engines. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is retrofitting 36 school buses with technologies to cut soot and reduce idling. New Jersey and New York.

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DOE to award ~$13.5M to 16 R&D projects for solid-oxide fuel cell technologies

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SOFC technologies enable efficient, cost-effective electricity generation from abundant domestic coal and natural gas resources, with minimal use of water and near-zero atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and pollutants. R&D areas of interest included, but were not limited to: Cell manufacturing and quality control.

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Yale study finds that organic aerosols more complicated than previously thought

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Yale researchers have found that organic aerosols—a type of air pollution—are much more complicated than previous studies indicated. The atmospheric evolution of organic compounds encompasses many thousands of compounds with varying volatility, polarity, and water solubility. —Jenna Ditto, a Ph.D.

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ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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The system takes three main inputs: ambient air, water, and a sustainable energy source, and produces butanol with high selectivity. University of Michigan. The University of Michigan team aims to develop a new type of battery separator that can effectively prevent rather than block the formation of dendrites. UC Berkeley.

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NSF awards $2M to U-Mich for algal biofuel work; looking to algal communities to enhance yield

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A team of University of Michigan researchers has been awarded a $2-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to identify and to test naturally diverse groups of green algae that can be grown together to create a high-yield, environmentally sustainable and cost-effective system to produce next-generation biofuels.

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