Is there switch grass in your future...................  this study could be done with $55,000.

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.

BROWNFIELDS GRANT AWARDED TO WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY TO REDEVELOP FORMER SURFACE MINES

EPA announced an estimated $550,000 Brownfields grant to West Virginia University on Sept. 10, at the 2008 West Virginia Brownfields Conference, titled "A Path to Progress," held in Huntington, W. Va.  This grant will fund the identification and redevelopment of mine-scarred lands as production sites for biofuels and other alternative energy sources.  Specifically, the grant funds will help the university's Water Research Institute find abandoned scarred mine sites that can be used to produce bio-fuels from switch grass, other bio-fuels or as wind energy farm redevelopment sites.