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USDA awards $10M in grants to spur production of biofuels, bioenergy and biobased products

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West Virginia University, $349,952. The ISU report, Biobased Automobile Parts Investigation, shows that “the history of biobased automobile parts begins early in the development of automobiles themselves. During the 1930s, automobile pioneer Henry Ford began developing soy-based automobile parts.”

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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As private companies, automobile manufacturers look for the lowest cost means of getting from A to B and the premiums that they can charge for getting from A to B faster. cents/kWh in West Virginia—a 23.59 in West Virginia to $6.12 Power plant capital costs. Source: EIA. cents/ kWh in Hawaii to 5.61

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Volkswagen of America temporarily withdraws application for US certification of MY 2016 vehicles; AECDs

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In the prepared testimony, Horn says that in the spring of 2014 when the West Virginia University study that brought the emissions issue to the fore was published, he was told that there was a possible emissions non-compliance issue that could be remedied. Earlier post.).

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