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EPA awards $6.6M to universities for black carbon research

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

million in grants to eight universities in support of black carbon research. Black carbon is the sooty black material emitted from diesel-powered engines and vehicles, industries like brick kilns and coke ovens, traditional cookstoves, and other sources that burn fossil fuels or biomass.

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ClearFlame Engine Technologies secures $2.5M to advance diesel-free truck demonstration; ethanol-fueled MCCI

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JUNE 18, 2021

million in additional financing from several investors, including the Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois Corn Growers Associations. Jacobs provided installation support of its patented Cylinder Deactivation (CDA) technology, which complements the ClearFlame high-temperature, carbon-neutral strategy.

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ClearFlame Engine Technologies secures $17M in Series A financing

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

The company’s engine technology enables low-carbon, renewable fuels such as ethanol to be integrated easily into existing diesel engine platforms, offering a lower-emission, lower-cost solution than diesel fuel. —BJ Johnson, ClearFlame CEO and co-founder.

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Elon Musk-funded XPRIZE carbon removal competition reveals its 15 “milestone round” winners

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APRIL 22, 2022

Fifteen early-phase “milestone round” winners from the Elon Musk-funded $100 million XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition were announced on Friday. The XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition was launched to encourage the development of innovative techniques that can help reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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Harmonizing Low Carbon Fuel Standards

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

—Low Carbon Fuel Standard 2011 Program Review Report. The California LCFS regulation, which went in to effect on 15 April 2010, targets a reduction of the carbon intensity (CI), on a full-fuel lifecycle basis, of transportation fuels (measured in gCO 2 e/MJ) used in California by an average of 10% by the year 2020.

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DOE Regional Partnership Begins Core Sampling for Large-Volume Carbon Sequestration Test

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MAY 23, 2009

The Plains CO 2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership, one of seven members of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships program, has begun collecting core samples from a new characterization well near Spectra Energy’s Fort Nelson natural gas processing plant in British Columbia, Canada.

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DOE Regional Partnership Initiates CO2 Injection in Lignite Coal Seam

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MARCH 11, 2009

The Lignite Field Validation Test is being conducted by the Plains CO 2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership, one of seven regional partnerships under DOE’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Program. The characterization phase (2003–2005), which defined opportunities for carbon capture and storage, has been completed.

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Belfer Center Study Concludes Reducing Car and Truck GHG Emissions Will Require Substantially Higher Fuel Prices; Income Tax Credits for Advanced Alt Fuel Vehicles Are Essentially Ineffective at Reducing Sector Emissions

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MARCH 8, 2010

The authors used the 2009 version of the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) National Energy Modeling System (NEMS), an energy-economic equilibrium model of US energy markets, to estimate the impacts of these scenarios both in terms of carbon mitigation and economic costs. Similar results hold for other macroeconomic indicators.

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Energy Secretary Chu Announces $1.2 Billion in Recovery Act Funding for Science

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MARCH 23, 2009

The package also provides substantial support for both university- and National Laboratory-based researchers, working on problems in fields ranging from particle and plasma physics to biofuels, solar energy, superconductivity, solid state lighting, electricity storage and materials science, among others. Ames Laboratory (Ames, Iowa)—$1.7

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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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APRIL 21, 2014

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. —Liska et al.

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New Study Finds Flaw in Carbon Accounting for Bioenergy, Another Contends That Indirect Land Use Change Emissions for Biofuels Will Be Up To Twice Direct Land Use Change Emissions

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

Thirteen scientists and land use experts conclude in a new paper that an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. Their paper is published in the 23 Oct. Accounting rules.

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The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

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JANUARY 7, 2023

“Public policy implementation is hard even if everyone supports a policy,” says University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has studied policy management and administration for decades. economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035.

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

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APRIL 10, 2010

Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. The three lawmakers plan to introduce legislation next month that would apply different carbon controls to individual sectors of the economy instead of setting a national target. Representatives Henry A. John Kerry (D-Mass.)

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EPA awards $6.6M to universities for black carbon research

ClearFlame Engine Technologies secures $2.5M to advance diesel-free truck demonstration; ethanol-fueled MCCI

ClearFlame Engine Technologies secures $17M in Series A financing

Elon Musk-funded XPRIZE carbon removal competition reveals its 15 “milestone round” winners

Harmonizing Low Carbon Fuel Standards

DOE Regional Partnership Begins Core Sampling for Large-Volume Carbon Sequestration Test

DOE Regional Partnership Initiates CO2 Injection in Lignite Coal Seam

Belfer Center Study Concludes Reducing Car and Truck GHG Emissions Will Require Substantially Higher Fuel Prices; Income Tax Credits for Advanced Alt Fuel Vehicles Are Essentially Ineffective at Reducing Sector Emissions

Energy Secretary Chu Announces $1.2 Billion in Recovery Act Funding for Science

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

New Study Finds Flaw in Carbon Accounting for Bioenergy, Another Contends That Indirect Land Use Change Emissions for Biofuels Will Be Up To Twice Direct Land Use Change Emissions

The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

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

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