WASHINGTON, March 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy announced that it expects to award up to 27 cooperative agreements for waste feedstocks and conversion research and development. The agency description of the cooperative agreement states: "This FOA (Funding Opportunity Announcement) supports two priority areas in the Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) research and development (R&D) portfolio. The first of these priority areas addresses new strategies for energy and resource recovery from  more ST