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SBIR Logo EPA Awards $2 Million to Small Businesses to Support Environmental Innovation, Protect Health
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded seven contracts totaling more than $2 million to small businesses across the nation to develop new technologies to keep the environment clean and healthy. (CFDA: 66.509)
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EPA Announces Funded Research to Improve Air Quality, Protect Health
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded five grants totaling almost $2 million to academic institutions for research on innovative processes to further improve air quality in the U.S. and help track the effectiveness of pollution control measures.
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Dr Sedlak Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California - Berkeley
Dr. Edward Kolodziej Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Nevada - Reno

Cattle feedlots release synthetic growth hormone metabolites at levels causing endocrine disruption in fish
STAR researchers Dr. David Sedlak (University of California - Berkeley) and Dr. Edward Kolodziej (University of Nevada - Reno) have published 2 new journal articles this year, one that shows toxic levels of trenbolone metabolites can reach fish in surface waters at levels that can cause reproductive defects and another describing the new and more accurate analytical procedures that they have developed. (CFDA: 66.509)
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Neil DonahueWhy is methane such a powerful heat trapper in our atmosphere?
U.S. EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grantee Neil Donahue has been featured in a recent National Public Radio (NPR) story for his work in atmospheric chemistry. (CFDA: 66.509)
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SunsetElderly at risk to heat and temperature fluctuations
EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grantees at Harvard School of Public Health have shown that heat and fluctuation in temperatures due to climate change will hurt one of our most vulnerable populations, the elderly. (CFDA: 66.509)
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