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PostSeptember 27, 2023

Improving US air quality, equitably

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
The power sector, which is the main target of current U.S. carbon emissions-reduction policies, contributes to national PM2.5-related exposure, but other sectors, such as industry and heavy-duty diesel transportation, can be a larger influence on exposure disparities.
PostSeptember 20, 2023

New Volpe Center opens to support the country’s most innovative transport...

MIT News
President Sally Kornbluth, fifth from left, joins Governor Maura Healey and members of the federal government and Cambridge community for a ribbon cutting at the new John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center.
PostSeptember 13, 2023

Desirée Plata appointed co-director of the MIT Climate and Sustainability ...

MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium
Desirée Plata
PostSeptember 8, 2023

AI pilot programs look to reduce energy use and emissions on MIT campus

MIT Office of Sustainability
Pilots in MIT's Building 66 test AI controls that work with existing building management systems and have the potential to reduce energy usage campus-wide.
PostSeptember 6, 2023

Study suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2

MIT News
Researchers uncovered how carbon dioxide can be both captured and converted through a single electrochemical process in which an electrode, like the one pictured covered in bubbles, is used to attract carbon dioxide released from a sorbent and convert it into carbon neutral products.
PostAugust 29, 2023

New clean air and water labs to bring together researchers, policymakers to...

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Africa, MENA, and South Asia are on the front lines of global air and water crises.
PostAugust 25, 2023

More homes mean more heat. Can new building codes help save metro Phoenix f...

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
Construction cranes in Phoenix on July 13, 2023, the 14th day in a row of temperatures 110 degrees or more.
PostAugust 24, 2023

Dyanna Jaye: Bringing the urgency of organizing to climate policy

MIT News
MCP student and Sunrise Movement co-founder Dyanna Jaye seeks to embed climate action into all levels of government. Her goal: a transition that “decarbonizes our economy while also building good jobs and protecting the fundamental things that we need in our life.”
PostAugust 23, 2023

Making aviation fuel from biomass

MIT Energy Initiative
Professor Yuriy Román-Leshkov and collaborators have demonstrated a new way to produce a critical component of aviation fuel from lignin, a plant material that’s generally discarded as waste during biomass processing.
PostAugust 17, 2023

Bianca Champenois SM ’22 Helps Model the Future for Coastal Industries

MIT Spectrum
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