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Renewable fuels and biochar company Cool Planet closes on $100M Series D financing

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Cool Planet Energy Systems, a renewable fuels and biochar company ( earlier post ), closed on its targeted $100 million Series D financing. The company broke ground on its first biofuel production facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, on 26 February 2014.

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Avalon enters into rare earth refining agreement and strategic partnership with Solvay

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The decision to use Solvay’s facilities to refine the company’s mixed rare earth concentrate makes the property optioned in Geismar, Louisiana for a refinery, potentially available as an alternative location for the hydrometallurgical facility, originally contemplated for Pine Point, NWT.

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Renewable Energy Group to acquire Tyson Foods’ half ownership of Dynamic Fuels renewable diesel biorefinery

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Completion of the transaction with Tyson Foods, which is contingent upon the closing of REG’s December 2013 announced agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Syntroleum Corporation, would give REG full ownership of Dynamic Fuels and its 75-million gallon per year nameplate capacity renewable diesel biorefinery in Geismar, Louisiana.

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The Six People You Meet In the Car Business

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Having worked for car dealerships, manufacturers, an auction house, and an auto finance company, I’m convinced there is no other industry that attracts& such a diverse cast of characters. I first met& “Perry” at a Honda dealership& in Louisiana in 1986. Their names have been changed to protect the guilty.

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USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

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USDA has reached an agreement with Silicon Valley Bank to provide a $91-million Biorefinery Assistance Program loan guarantee to Cool Planet to help the company finish construction on an advanced biofuel plant at the Port of Alexandria in Louisiana. An additional project financed from these funds will be announced later this month.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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The program limits, or “caps,” carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from large fossil-fuel-fired electric generating units, with the goal of stabilizing emissions from 2009 through 2014 to a level roughly equivalent to recent historical emissions. The total amount of pollution allowances sold may not exceed 188 million tons per year through 2014.

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