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Mississippi State University to Receive $200,000 for Biodiesel Research

Release Date: 06/12/2008
Contact Information: Dawn Harris-Young, EPA Media Relations, (404)562-8421

(Atlanta, Ga. – June 12, 2008) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will recognize Mississippi State University (MSU) Friday, June 13, 2008 in Mississippi, Miss. as a recipient of $200,000 grant for research to transform waste water treatment plant sludge into biodiesel.

Who: EPA Region 4 Regional Administrator Jimmy Palmer

What: Award EPA Regionally Applied Research Effort Grant to Mississippi State University

When: Friday, June 13, 2008, 11:00 a.m.

Where: Mississippi State University
Bagley College of Engineering
250 McCain Hall
Dunn Conference room
Miss. State, MS 39762

The grant is part of Agency’s Regionally Applied Research Effort program and will be administered through the Agency’s Office of Research and Development. Projects for the program must address an environmental issue within one of EPA’s ten regions and are recommended for funding by that region. The development of clean, sustainable and renewable energy sources is a key effort for Region 4. The Regional office hosted the “Dialog on Clean Energy in the Southeast” conference in December 2007, where the expansion in the use of environmentally friendly biofuels was identified as a regional priority.

Further information on biodiesel and clean diesel opportunities is available from the Southeast Diesel Collaborative at www.southeastdiesel.org.