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DOE Turns Down V-Vehicle Loan Applications

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million to re-equip and tool an existing manufacturing facility as VVC’s first regional assembly plant in Monroe, Louisiana. The DOE conducted an extensive technical, market, financial, regulatory, credit and legal analysis following its determination that the applications were substantially complete in May 2009.

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National Academies’ Gulf Research Program awards $10.8M to address systemic risk in offshore oil and gas operations

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Comprehensive awareness of the systemic vulnerabilities that can lead to uncontrolled hydrocarbon release during drilling, production, or decommissioning activities of offshore oil and gas operations is essential to reducing existing risks and anticipating and avoiding new ones, the GRP says. Louisiana State University.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Renergie was formed on March 22, 2006 for the initial purpose of raising capital to develop, construct, own and operate a decentralized network of ten modular-designed small advanced biofuel manufacturing facilities (“SABMFs”) in the parishes of the State of Louisiana which were devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

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America’s lithium laws fail to keep pace with rapid development – ET Auto

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Across Texas, Louisiana and other mineral-rich states, it’s unclear who owns the millions of metric tons of lithium locked in salty brines underneath U.S. states, legal experts, politicians, landowners, investors, royalty firms, industry executives and consultants.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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The government assisted the shift by giving sugar companies subsidized loans to build ethanol plants, as well as guaranteeing prices for their ethanol products. Both production and consumption of ethanol were basically flat for much of the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Until fairly recently, these US motor vehicles were non-FFVs.

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Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

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reforestation); Limiting deforestation by purchasing forested property and preserving the forests with legal and enforcement mechanisms; Setting aside croplands from agricultural production to rebuild carbon in the soil and vegetation; and. Each SABMF has a production capacity of five million gallons per year of fuel-grade ethanol.

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EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

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It’s another thing to use the nation’s vehicle emissions standards to prop up a product that has minimal impacts on the environment and only the wealthy can afford. To borrow from Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, CAFE does not stand for California Assumes Federal Empowerment. —Andrew Wheeler.