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NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

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Montana State University. The team, which includes researchers from Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota, seeks to identify a framework of carbon mitigation strategies that would minimize conflicts with food security and clean energy production priorities. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Lead organization.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION. Overview of RGGI. Gases: CO 2 emissions. WCI covers seven U.S.

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Former EPA exec Margo Oge explains the new federal emissions rules

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We cannot get there without clean transportation. The question is more, what type of criteria they’re going to use to allocate those resources—population versus air pollution versus rural communities. Some states like Montana, for example, it’s less populous, but a big state, so how do you put that infrastructure in place?

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