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U Florida team using fungi to extract cobalt and lithium from waste batteries

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The researchers presented their work at the 252 nd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Philadelphia. Most likely, many head to a landfill to slowly break down in the environment or go to an incinerator to be burned, generating potentially toxic air emissions. —Jeffrey A. Cunningham, Ph.D.,

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MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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Researchers from MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment have concluded that ground-level PM 2.5 Steven Barrett, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, and colleagues have published their results in the journal Atmospheric Environment. Source: MIT. Click to enlarge. Fabio Caiazzo, Akshay Ashok, Ian A.

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Attendance at IEEE’s STEM Summer Camp Breaks Records

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Held on university campuses across the United States, the experience also helps them stand out in an increasingly competitive college-acceptance environment. The coordinators were very kind and went the extra mile to achieve a healthy and quality environment for her.” We aim to grow this aspect of the program even more in the future.”

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Toyota launches Collaborative Safety Research Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan

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The collaborative research will pursue integrated ways to enhance safety, involving the vehicle, driver and traffic environment. The University of Michigan, Virginia Tech and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute will be charter partners in the new Collaborative Safety Research Center.

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CMU study finds that coal retirement is needed for EVs to reduce air pollution

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But the extra emissions released as a result can cause 50% higher costs to human health and the environment.). They then modeled the emissions from those power plants, the effects of emissions on air pollution in downwind counties, and the resulting implications for human health and the environment. Weis et al.

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Summer Update

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Fleet Orders · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources – 1,800 · City of Chicago - 850 vehicles · Shohomish County, WA - 300 · City of Seattle - 410 · Kansas City, MO - 120 · Capital Metro (Transit agency in Austin) - 165 · ABC Lawn and Pest Control (Austin) - 150 Cities Cities continue to join the Plug-In Partners coalition.

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Study finds vehicles more important source of urban atmospheric ammonia than farms

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The researchers outfitted vehicles with sensors to detect ammonia levels and focused on six cities: Philadelphia, Denver and Houston in the United States, and Beijing, Shijiazhuang and Baoding in China. —Sun et al. The laser-based sensors were smaller, easier to work with and more accurate than previously used sensors, Zondlo said.

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