Climate Change [Swindle] Center At Michigan Tech Awards $1.5 Million

The Midwest Regional Center of the National Institute for Climate Change Research, based at Michigan Technological University, has awarded $1.5 million in United States Department of Energy grants for four new collaborative research projects in seven states and eight continuing projects.

The newly funded projects involve researchers from the University of Michigan, Ohio State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Kansas State University and the University of Illinois.

They will investigate forest carbon dynamics; interactions among water, carbon dioxide and nitrogen in a grassland ecosystem; the effects of warming and changes in rainfall on root systems and soil carbon decomposition in a grassland ecosystem; and the interaction of elevated temperature and carbon dioxide on a soybean ecosystem.

EPA’s Jackson: Then Again, Maybe We Won’t (Regulate Emissions) - Environmental Capital - WSJ

The Obama administration has the power to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. But it really, really wants Congress to do the heavy lifting.
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When the EPA ruled that greenhouse-gas emissions presented an “overwhelming” case for government regulation because of the threat of climate change, it may have gone too far, the White House said:

“The amount of acknowledged lack of understanding about the basic facts surrounding [greenhouse gases] seem to stretch the precautionary principle to providing regulation in the face of unprecedented uncertainty,” the memo reads.