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

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(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. The eight Toyota facilities recognized by the EPA include: Bodine Aluminum (Jackson, Tenn.,

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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. However, there is only one recorded sighting of this bacterium, which grows in toxic environments. Researchers led by Washington University in St. Louis biologist Himadri B.

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Using Industrial Automation to Monitor Vertical Farms

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The systems reduce water consumption and minimize the need for pesticides and herbicides. By supplying plants with the precise amount of water, nutrients, and light, indoor farming creates an ideal environment for their growth. Plants are grown in nutrient-rich solutions.

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

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Advanced Flow Meter for Extreme Environments (AFMEE), $100,000 MicroNuclear LLC, Franklin, Tenn.

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Association of Independent Plant Research Institutes (AIPI) forms with focus on renewable energy, ecosystem services and sustainable agriculture

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Scientific leaders from the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Cornell University); The Carnegie Institution for Science;, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, Mo.); and The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation (Ardmore, Okla.) Plants filter groundwater, reduce erosion, absorb carbon dioxide and generate oxygen.

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

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Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is retrofitting 36 school buses with technologies to cut soot and reduce idling. Franklin Soil & Water Conservation District is replacing three school buses and four agriculture engines and converting three irrigation pumps to clean burning electric. New Jersey and New York.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

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