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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. VVC filed applications for both loans in March 2009. That work began in July 2009 and was targeted for completion in the third quarter 2011. The second was for $241.2

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Denbury Undertakes Midwest CO2 Pipeline Feasibility Study

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has initiated a comprehensive feasibility study of a possible long-term CO 2 pipeline project which would connect proposed gasification plants in the Midwest to Denbury’s existing CO 2 pipeline infrastructure in Mississippi or Louisiana. Denbury Resources Inc. Denbury Resources Inc.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009. Donovan (20 December 2009). Mr. Donovan drafted the “Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative” for the State of Louisiana. On 21 June 2008, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law the Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative (“Act 382”).

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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. United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009. Donovan (December 20, 2009).

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

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Current Legal Requirement for Use of Anhydrous Ethanol in the United States. In February, 2009, the US EPA granted Renergie, Inc. a first-of-its-kind waiver for the purpose of testing hydrous E10, E20, E30 & E85 ethanol blends in non-flex-fuel vehicles and flex-fuel vehicles in the State of Louisiana. 40 CFR § 80.27

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

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To borrow from Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, CAFE does not stand for California Assumes Federal Empowerment. When Barack Obama became president, the litigation was put in abeyance and EPA in 2009 granted California’s waiver to set its own greenhouse gas emission standards for model years 2009 to 2016.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Renergie was formed 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. ]. Donovan, CEO of Renergie, Inc.