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A new catalyst has been developed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. It can reduce the nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions diesel engines from 90%-95%. Integrated Fuel Technologies, Inc. (IFT), a Washington State start-up company with offices in Spokane and Kirkland, has been licensed to produce it.

Seventeen engineering teams from the nation's top universities were challenged by the Department of Energy in a groundbreaking four-year competition called Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility. Mississippi State University takes top honors, followed by Wisconsin University in second and Ohio State University in third. The University of Waterloo came in fourth, in fifth place was the University of Tulsa and Pennsylvania State University ranked sixth.

John Mizroch, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Department of Energy (DOE),  discusses the various projects underway within EERE, including researching and developing the use of biomass such as switchgrass and zero energy homes and buildings. He also explains how improving energy efficiency in buildings and furthering development of lithium batteries for vehicles is important for the United States' national security.

How to Boil a Frog's FrogBlog on why carbon capture, nuclear power, ethanol and all the other fake solutions we're being offered are just making things worse...and where the real solutions will come from.

Virginia Tech announces the "Energy Efficiency Partnership for Greater Washington," an initiative to tackle the problem of global warming by retrofitting existing buildings with energy efficiency products designed to decrease energy use and significantly cut carbon emissions.

The Subcommittee on Energy and Environment holds a hearing on the Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Technologies Program (ITP), and prospects
for improving the energy efficiency and environmental performance of the country's most energy-intensive manufacturing processes
through technological advancement and industrial process assessments.

Kevin Kovelar, Asst. Secretary of Energy, Office of Electricity Deliverability & Energy Reliability, Department of Energy, describes the Department of Energy's efforts to promote reliability of the U.S. electrical grid, including potential designation of National Transmission Corridors.

After three-years of competing in the “Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility” challenge, a team from the University of Mississippi has been dubbed the victors. The competition, which is sponsored by General Motors and the U.S. Department of Energy, asked students throughout the U.S. to re-engineer a crossover sport utility vehicle that minimizes energy consumption, emissions and greenhouse gases.

The Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory describes how carbon sequestration works and how it will contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.