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UCLA researchers turn carbon dioxide into sustainable concrete

The production of cement, which when mixed with water forms the binding agent in concrete, accounts for about about 5 percent of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions. An even larger source of carbon dioxide emissions is flue gas emitted from smokestacks at power plants around the world. A team of interdisciplinary researchers at UCLA has developed a potential solution for this problem: a closed-loop process which captures carbon from power plant smokestacks and uses it to create a new building material- CO2NCRETE- fabricated using 3D printers.

Read more at UCLA Newsroom

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Sustainable LA Grand Challenge announces awarding of $1.2 million to research projects to help Los Angeles County thrive 

Studying water systems in Los Angeles County is key to devising policies that will get the county to 100 percent local water by 2050. (Michael/Flickr)
Studying water systems in Los Angeles County is key to devising policies that will get the county to 100 percent local water by 2050. (Michael/Flickr)

The UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge’s first competitive research grants will go to 11 projects, ranging from developing lightweight solar panels that double as batteries to studying the costs of algae-based biofuels.

Read more at UCLA Newsroom

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SCOTUS puts regulation of power plant emissions on hold

A March 12, 2015 photo shows the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
A March 12, 2015 photo shows the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
Mandel Ngan/ AFP/ Getty Images

Cara Horowitz, of UCLA School of Law and the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, joins KPCC’s Take Two to discuss the Supreme Court’s 5 to 4 split decision to put regulation of power plant emissions on hold. The court’s decision puts a temporary halt on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan while it considers legal challenges from 29 states and energy industry groups.

Read more at KPCC

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UCLA-Tata Global Forum in India draws policy makers, academic and business leaders

Smriti Zubin Irani, Indian minister of human resource development, speaks with UCLA Vice Provost Cindy Fan at the UCLA-Tata Global Forum held in New Delhi this week.
Smriti Zubin Irani, Indian minister of human resource development, speaks with UCLA Vice Provost Cindy Fan at the UCLA-Tata Global Forum held in New Delhi this week.
Courtesy of Tata Trusts

Many of UCLA’s most well-known energy and sustainability experts- including Grand Challenges leader, Associate Vice Chancellor for Environment and Sustainability Mark Gold, and James Liao (department of Chemistry and Biochemistry), and Rajit Gadh (UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) – participated in the UCLA-Tata Global Forum. The event, which was jointly initiated by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block and Chairman of Tata Trusts Ratan Tata, demonstrates how UCLA’s research on the environment, energy and sustainability- showcased in the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge- is relevant to megacities worldwide.

Source: UCLA-Tata Global Forum in India draws policy makers, academic and business leaders UCLA Newsroom, 14 Jan. 2016

Additional coverage of the UCLA-Tata Global Forum:

Tata Trusts and UCLA host two-day global forum “Innovating for a Sustainable Energy Future” The Economic Times, 11 Jan. 2016

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