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DOE Regional Partnership Initiates CO2 Injection in Lignite Coal Seam

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a five-spot well configuration was drilled in the summer of 2007 consisting of a center injection well surrounded by four monitoring wells. In addition to evaluating the lignite seam’s CO2 storage potential, the enhancement to coalbed methane extraction will also be evaluated. In collaboration with Eagle Operating Inc.,

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Study finds removing corn residue for biofuel production can decrease soil organic carbon and increase CO2 emissions; may miss mandated 60% GHG reduction

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Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and under some conditions can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a major, multi-year study by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln team of researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The uncompressed input data totalled ?3

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