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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Altogether, the five-year program will deliver more than $136 million in research and development grants to public and private sector partners in 22 states. The grants announced by Vilsack in Seattle today came through USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The cleaned syngas is them processed through an amine system to capture and remove sulfur and carbon dioxide. The Naphtha is recycled to the partial oxidation unit with remaining tail gas to be reformed to hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Fulcrum matched this DoD grant with $4.7 In 2013, Fulcrum was awarded a $4.7-million

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JULY 26, 2011

Soil quality, water quality, and possibly even farm profits will all benefit by using a perennial cover crop on corn fields that allows for similar yields to traditional farming methods, according to Iowa State University research. And Kentucky bluegrass is out in every lawn in Iowa. Click to enlarge. Every farmer grows it already.

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Kentucky Iowa Grant Water 186

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is awarding 20 grants for FY 2009 in two research areas on natural systems: biosensing and bioactuation (12 awards); and obtaining hydrocarbons from biomass and microorganisms (8 awards). Shanks of Iowa State University, in collaboration with Basil J. Carpita, Maureen C. McCann, and Fabio H.

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DECEMBER 24, 2009

Newton, Iowa is the preferred site for the project, but final site selection details have not been completed. Olefin metathesis, a catalyst technology which swaps molecular fragments on either side of a carbon-carbon double bond, has become an efficient and widely-used chemical process in petroleum refining and other industries.

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Renewable Diesel Production Iowa 210

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced $55 million in grant selections through the Low or No Emission (Low-No) Vehicle program, which funds the development of transit buses and infrastructure that use advanced fuel technologies. Fifty-one projects in 39 states will receive a share of the funding.

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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. Error bars are ± one standard deviation.

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Carbon Emissions CO2 Nebraska 220

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Transit agencies began submitting their proposals after the FTA announced rules for the Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) grant program as part of the Recovery Act last March. Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 Ames Transit Agency, Iowa: $1,600,000.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

The awarded grants will go to projects with lead researchers in 17 states. Carbon Capture (5 projects). DOE grant: $7,200,000). DOE grant: $6,949,624). DOE grant:$5,349,932). DOE Grant: $4,000,000). DOE grant: $1,999,447). The projects selected are grouped into 10 areas: Energy Storage (6 projects).

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AUGUST 1, 2010

A team from Iowa State University and ConocoPhillips, Biofuels R&D performed a techno-economic study examining the fast pyrolysis of corn stover to bio-oil with subsequent upgrading of the bio-oil to naphtha and diesel range fuels. In 2007, ConocoPhillips established an eight-year, $22.5-million Earlier post.).

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Alternative Fuels Oil Iowa Diesel 225

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JULY 6, 2019

Since President Trump took office, the EPA has more than quadrupled the number of RFS waivers it has granted. If the EPA continues to grant retroactive waivers, the RVO numbers are meaningless and the EPA is not following the law. —Curt Mether, President of the Iowa Corn Growers Association.

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EPA Renewable 2020 Fuel 207

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APRIL 10, 2010

Cantwell said that cap-and-trade had been discredited by the Wall Street crisis, the Enron scandal and the rocky start to a carbon credits trading system in Europe that has been subject to dizzying price fluctuations and widespread fraud. states (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Manitoba).

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244