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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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According to the Natural Resources Defense Council , climate change contributes to severe weather events such as hurricanes, flooding, and tornadoes, as well as long-term drought and regularly occurring heat events in traditionally moderate climate zones. and its environs. Here are four of the 10 projects.

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DOE awarding $1.6B to 11 battery materials separation and processing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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The project objective is to construct a new, commercial-scale lithium materials processing plant at Kings Mountain, North Carolina, that uses sustainably extracted spodumene minerals from the site’s lithium mine. Most of the world’s lithium resources are found in naturally occurring salt solutions, known as brines.

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3 Duke Energy subsidiaries plead guilty to 9 criminal violations of Clean Water Act; $102M settlement

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Four of the charges are the direct result of the massive coal ash spill from the Dan River steam station into the Dan River near Eden, North Carolina, in February 2014. As part of their plea agreements, Duke Energy Business Services LLC, Duke Energy Carolinas LLC and Duke Energy Progress Inc.

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Study: annual climate impact of wild pigs could be greater than 1.1M cars

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Our models show a wide range of outcomes, but they indicate that wild pigs are most likely currently uprooting an area of around 36,000 to 124,000 square kilometers, in environments where they’re not native. In January, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) invested $11.65 Feral swine have been reported in at least 35 states. O’Bryan, C.

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UNL-led team greatly increases hydrogen production by T maritima; breaking the theoretical limit

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Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), with colleagues from North Carolina State University and the University of Connecticut, have engineered the hyperthermophilic anaerobe Thermotoga maritima to produce 46% more hydrogen per cell than the wild type. The team’s highest reported yield—5.7 doi: 10.1128/AEM.00998-18.

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Study finds US air pollution deaths nearly halved between 1990 and 2010

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A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that deaths related to air pollution in the US were nearly halved between 1990 and 2010. We’ve invested a lot of resources as a society to clean up our air. Trends in the total mortality burden (black) for PM 2.5 (a, Zhang et al.

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Camber Ridge opening $60M tire testing facility with 0.5-mile oval indoor track

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The facility aims to offer all the advantages of testing real tires on real surfaces, but with the precision, environmental control and repeatability of a laboratory environment. The new facility is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the midst of the region’s growing automotive research and manufacturing cluster.

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