EPA Grant Opportunity Synopsis

"The Environmental Sciences Division plans to support the development of consensus standards that relate to hazardous waste management practices and hazardous waste site characterization."

Posted Date: Mar 21, 2006
Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
Category of Funding Activity:	Environment
Expected Number of Awards:	1
Estimated Total Program Funding:	$150,000
Award Ceiling:	$150,000
Award Floor:	$30,000
CFDA Number:	66.510 -- Surveys, Studies, Investigations and Special Purpose Grants within the Office of Research and Development
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Eligible Applicants

City or township governments
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
State governments
Individuals
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
County governments
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Private institutions of higher education
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education

Link to Full Announcement

SUPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSENSUS STANDARDS RELATED TO HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT AND HAZARDOUS WASTE SITE CHARACTERIZATION

‘Crystal sponge’ a hydrogen breakthrough? - Green Machines - MSNBC.com

"In what could be a breakthrough on the road to a pollution-free hydrogen economy, researchers say they have developed a “crystal sponge” material that can store nearly three times more hydrogen than any other known substance.

Obstacles to mass market vehicles that some day run on hydrogen include storage capacity. Test cars that use hydrogen in fuel cells to create an electric propulsion system now get just 150 miles or so on a tank the same size as those in gasoline cars, which can travel 300 or 400 miles on a tank.

Chemists at UCLA and the University of Michigan claim their material is the first to achieve the kind of storage capacities required to make hydrogen fuel practical. They are publishing their findings in late March in the Journal of the American Chemical Society."

The material was developed by UCLA chemist Omar Yaghi, who described it as just one in a large class of compounds he invented in the early 1990s.