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EPA announces $46M for latest Diesel Emissions Reduction Act funding

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EPA is soliciting applications nationwide for projects that significantly reduce diesel emissions and exposure, especially from fleets operating at goods movements facilities in areas designated as having poor air quality. Region 7 (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska will accept applications requesting up to $1,500,000 in grant funds.

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EPA announces ~$44M in DERA funding to reduce emissions from diesel engines

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EPA is soliciting applications nationwide for projects that significantly reduce diesel emissions and exposure, especially from fleets operating at goods movements facilities in areas designated as having poor air quality. EPA anticipates releasing a separate Tribal DERA grant funding opportunity in early 2020. Background.

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EPA announces availability of $26M for projects to reduce diesel emissions from existing fleet

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EPA is soliciting proposals nationwide for projects that significantly reduce diesel emissions and exposure, especially from fleets operating in areas designated as having poor air quality. Region 6 (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas): EPA is requesting proposals between $400,000 and $2,700,000.

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State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

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Gulf Coast area refineries are designed to process a mixture of heavy and light crudes; the refineries in that region possess one of the highest concentrations of heavy-crude refining capacity of any area in the world, according to the SEIS. The pipeline would primarily transport crude oil from the WCSB and Bakken regions.

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USDA providing $9.6M to create 9,000 acres of BCAP project areas for non-food energy crop production

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BCAP, created in the 2008 Farm Bill, helps farmers and forest land owners with start-up costs of planting new energy crops that can take several years to reach maturity until harvest, a timeline designed to parallel the construction schedule of commercial-scale energy facilities that will use these crops.

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Coskata Unveils Semi-Commercial Feedstock-Flexible Ethanol Facility; Springboard for Full-Scale Commercial Rollout

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It first gasifies the feedstock to syngas (CO and H 2 ), then uses proprietary microorganisms—licensed from Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma—to convert simultaneously both CO and H 2 into ethanol. We have been surprised and taken some things out of the design. Earlier post.).

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State Department releases Keystone XL Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

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The document is posted on State’s Keystone project site , which it has run since the beginning of the Keystone XL Presidential permit process in 2008. Other Alternatives—which include minor route variations, alternative pipeline designs, and alternative sites for aboveground facilities.

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