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• Science Daily and Global Renewable News report on new research led by Ian Irvine, professor of economics in the Faculty of Arts and Science, that examines government incentives to promote the sale of electric vehicles. In the study, recently published in Canadian Public Policy, Irvine concludes that electric vehicle subsidies may work at cross purposes with existing fuel-efficiency subsidies for conventional vehicles, which he says could result in a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
• Renewable Energy Magazine joins coverage of new research by Mohammad Saifur Rahaman, associate professor in Concordia’s Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering (BCEE), and researchers at Bio-Terre Systems Inc., that describes how certain bacteria that thrive in colder temperatures can be used to convert solid food waste into renewable energy and organic fertilizer. The study was published in Process Safety and Environmental Protection.

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