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TMRC consortium awarded second phase of DOE contract targeting production of mixed rare earth oxides from PA coal waste

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Texas Mineral Resources Corp. The Texas Mineral Resources consortium objective is to install a self-contained, modular and portable pilot plant at a Jeddo Coal Pennsylvania site, capable of producing 1-3 metric tons of rare earth oxides derived from coal waste material from Pennsylvania anthracite coal.

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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico. DOE Funding: $1,499,999. DOE Funding: $1,483,787.

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OSU team develops process to clean coal mine drainage and extract rare earth elements

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In an open-access paper in the journal Environmental Engineering Science , the team reports that the process successfully cleaned clean coal mine drainage while producing rare-earth elements in samples from various rivers across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Coal mine drainage (CMD) impairs tens of thousands of kilometers of U.S.

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Pitt engineers using membrane distillation to recycle water used in fracking and drilling

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While drought is less of an issue in Pennsylvania than in other parts of the country where drilling is prevalent, the produced water that is not reused for hydraulic fracturing is transported to Ohio for disposal, adding to environmental concern of fuel usage and emissions in transport, as well as cost.

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PA Governor Wolf announces $8.5M from Volkswagen Settlement to reduce transportation pollution

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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that 34 cleaner energy transportation projects will receive $8,489,844 in Driving PA Forward grants and rebates. Valley Waste Service, Inc.: STA of Pennsylvania: A $185,832 grant to replace 10 older diesel school buses with 10 new diesel school buses for use in Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport.

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LanzaTech, Harsco ally to develop ethanol from steel gas process

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at Harsco’s world headquarters in Pennsylvania, taps into Harsco’s leadership serving the worldwide steel industry, in combination with LanzaTech’s proprietary bioenergy technologies for reducing the carbon footprint of integrated steelmaking operations by converting waste gas to ethanol and high value chemicals.

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USDA providing $405M in conditional loan guarantees for three biorefinery projects

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Coskata has been demonstrating the commercial viability of its process for more than a year at the company’s integrated biorefinery, located in Madison, Pennsylvania. Enerkem uses gasification followed by catalytic synthesis to produce synthetic fuels from biomass and waste. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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