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Alcoa splitting into two companies; expecting 2.4x increase in automotive revenues to $1.8B in 2018

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million metric tons, or 33%, of total smelting operating capacity since 2007. Alcoa has also invested in what it says is the most advanced, low-cost integrated aluminum complex in the world in Saudi Arabia, with the refinery and smelter now fully operational.

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Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal; RFS2, BCAP, BIWG and Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force

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It’s been said that the United States is the Saudi Arabia of coal—and that’s because, as I said, it’s one of our most abundant energy resources. The plan should address incentives for CCS adoption and any financial, economic, technological, legal, institutional, or other barriers to deployment. President Obama.

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