To meet the needs of sustainable development, the Laboratory of Green Energy and Environment of NLA focuses on research topics such as fate and transport of environmental contaminants, carbon capture and sequestration, novel water and wastewater technology development with energy production, renewable energy, sustainable built environment, indoor air quality management, clean coal technologies, utilization of solid waste, energy and environmental policy. The Lab has developed and has the access to several onsite laboratory facilities including environmental contaminant analysis, geologic formation of carbon sequestration, water and wastewater treatment testbed, renewable energy test site, gasification plant, as well as access to software for simulation, modeling, and analysis in environmental and energy system applications.