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MIT makes progress on campus climate goals

Innovative strategies, technologies, and collaborations are helping MIT advance solutions on campus and beyond.
September 15, 2026 MIT News

3 Questions: Putting nuclear waste into perspective

Professor Haruko Wainwright believes the risks posed by radioactive wastes cannot be properly assessed without also considering the hazards of chemical wastes.
September 15, 2026 MIT News

MITEI research scientists receive Schmidt Sciences grant

MITEI in brief
Jennifer Morris and Angelo Gurgel, principal research scientists with MITEI and the MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, are leading one of the five research teams that will receive $26 million over the next five years from Schmidt Sciences.
September 1, 2026 MITEI via Linkedin
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Form Energy raises $750 million

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New funding will speed manufacturing and deployment of iron-air batteries.
August 31, 2026 MITEI
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Paving the way for greener ammonia production

New MIT research could lead to better materials for a fossil-fuel-free process for making the chemical that's essential to fertilizer and other products.
August 20, 2026 MIT News

With more fuel-efficient cars and EVs on the road, we need to rethink how we tax auto travel

Writing for WBUR, Christopher Knittel (MIT Sloan) argues that a vehicle miles traveled tax would be the best substitute for federal gas taxes in order to account for the rise in electric vehicles—and other more fuel-efficient cars—and prevent the erosion of the transportation sector’s revenue base.
August 18, 2026 In the media WBUR

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