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MAY 3, 2021

Williston Basin (Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota): University of North Dakota plans to lead a coalition to drive the expansion and transformation of coal and coal-based resource usage within the Williston Basin to extract rare earth elements and critical minerals and produce non-fuel carbon-based products. DOE Funding: $1,500,000.

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MARCH 13, 2012

The states of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, and South Dakota filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opposing enforcement of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). Earlier post.). Earlier post.). This regulation directly threatens $1.3 —Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning.

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APRIL 10, 2014

ACE technology has been shown to significantly increase a plant’s ethanol production while delivering other benefits such as increased corn oil production and higher protein content in Dried Distillers Grains (DDGs), an ethanol by-product used for animal feed. The introduction of ACE technology will further drive growth.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced five major agricultural research projects aimed at developing regional, renewable energy markets, generating rural jobs, and decreasing America’s dependence on foreign oil. The team will also evaluate a co-product—bio-char—as a soil amendment to increase carbon sequestration.

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cool Planet’s patented technology comprises three main components: Biomass Pyrolysis: Hemi-cellulosic or lignocellulosic biomass is processed through a mechanical biomass fractionating system that uses pressure and heat to create streams of useful hydrocarbon components (bio-oil or pyrolysis oil).

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DECEMBER 24, 2009

The ERS Biorefinery is projected to be a profitable asset at $45/barrel crude oil and delivers improved profitability of $300-900 per metric ton compared to traditional biodiesel plants. Newton, Iowa is the preferred site for the project, but final site selection details have not been completed. (ERS) received a $2.5 Earlier post.).

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JULY 29, 2015

Bio-based feedstocks from fats, plant oils and waste residues are converted to renewable diesel using advanced refining technologies. Advanced alternative fuels like renewable diesel are an important part of our strategy to reduce the carbon emissions impact of our fleet. In 2014, we achieved a 14.1%

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff posted 32 new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) fuel pathway applications for comments at the LCFS website. The LCFS is a regulation to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of fuels sold in California by 10% by 2020. If a product is above the annual carbon intensity target, the fuel incurs deficits.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Iowa State University will bring its expertise in biorenewable technologies and pilot plant operations to the country’s 10th Manufacturing USA Institute. In addition, she said the Iowa State team has already pulled in multiple partners willing to help commercialize distributed biorefineries. of Adel; and the Iowa Energy Center.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The project “Maximizing Conversion of Biomass Carbon to Liquid Fuel” (0938033) will be led by Rakesh Agrawal, with colleagues Mahdi Abu-Omar, Nicholas C. This organism has the potential to directly produce petroleum using a cellulose fermentation process that is essentially carbon neutral. Carpita, Maureen C. McCann, and Fabio H.

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MARCH 8, 2010

The study— Analysis of Policies to Reduce Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the US Transportation Sector —finds that reducing CO 2 emissions from the transportation sector 14% below 2005 levels by 2020 may require fuel prices above $8/gallon by 2020. million barrels per day, relative to 2008 levels.

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JUNE 29, 2015

However, building more coal and gas power plants to make miles for transport is counter-productive if the game plan is to reduce carbon output. It is generous to say that an acre of Iowa can provide 12,500 miles per year at a cost of 10 cents each. Consider the venerable oil drilling donkey, which cycles once every 7 or 8 seconds.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Ames Transit Agency, Iowa: $1,600,000. Energy Reduction Consolidated Projects: A variety of building energy-efficiency upgrades, hybrid vehicle upgrades, wind generator power systems, and the equipment needed to convert cooking oil to a blend with vehicle fuel to operate some of their buses.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Carbon Capture (5 projects). Envia Systems, in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory, will develop high energy density, low cost next generation Li-ion batteries using novel nano silicon-carbon composite anodes and high capacity manganese rich layered composite cathodes discovered at Argonne National Laboratory.

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JULY 6, 2019

As long as EPA continues to dole out compliance exemptions to oil refiners without reallocating the lost volume, the agency may as well start referring to the annual RFS levels as ‘renewable volume suggestions’ rather than ‘renewable volume obligations. —Curt Mether, President of the Iowa Corn Growers Association.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The joint venture will focus on R&D with the goal of improving mechanical reliability, creating additional technological efficiencies and licensing technology in countries which favorably support the use of low carbon fuels from crop residue and other biomass. —Hugh Welsh, President DSM North America.

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APRIL 10, 2010

Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. 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.

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