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The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Michigan Tech University, and ten other universities, 11 million dollars toward addressing energy transition in underserved communities. Michigan Tech University researchers, led by Associate Professor of Sociology, Chelsea Schelly, will use a 1.1 million dollar grant to evaluate the impact of current energy generation in rural, northern forested communities, and study the drivers and impacts of energy transitions in fuelwood. The research primarily involves the study of air quality in and around communities using fuelwood for energy generation, such as in L’Anse at L’Anse Warden Power Plant.
The EPA is interested to learn what university researchers around the country can evaluate when it comes to underserved communities and the rapid expansion of new technology used in energy production and transportation.
Other schools and institutions receiving funding from the EPA as a part of the eleven million dollars include, University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Maine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Research Triangle Institute, Green Umbrella, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, Ohio State University, The University of California – Los Angeles, Arizona State University, and Portland State University.
Find out more about the 11 million dollars awarded by the EPA, here.
Learn more about the research at Michigan Tech University, here.
