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State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

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MARCH 2, 2013

The US Department of State (DOS) has released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in response to TransCanada’s May 2012 application for the Keystone XL pipeline that would run from Canada’s oils sands in Alberta to Nebraska. MMTCO 2 e annually. MMTCO 2 e annually. to 0.6% (approximately 20,000 to 30,000 bpd) by 2030.

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Climate Change Oil-Sands Nebraska Climate

Study Finds That Higher Ethanol Blends Result in Improved Energy Efficiency in Flex-Fuel Engines, Partially Offsetting Reduced Energy Density of Fuel

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

The research was funded in part by the Nebraska Corn Board and through the Hatch Act (University of Nebraska Agricultural Research Division). Additional support for the project was provided by the State of Nebraska Transportation Services Bureau and The Shop, Inc. Cost per mile. Source: Hanna et al. Click to enlarge.

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Consortium for Algal Biofuel Commercialization releases final report on 6-year project

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MAY 11, 2016

We have used this system to create and test over 70 genetic parts and devices including: origins of replication, improved broad-host-range plasmids, homology regions for chromosome engineering, antibiotic markers, and functional devices for gene expression.

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Commercial San Diego Universal Nebraska

Researchers modify camelina to produce highest levels yet in transgenic plant oil of novel lipid acetyl-TAG; biofuel and industrial use

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AUGUST 18, 2015

Some of these modified structures have added-value properties that are currently used in a range of industrial applications. 3-acetyl-1,2-diacyl-sn-glycerols (acetyl-TAG) possess a particularly striking variation where the long-chain fatty acid at the sn-3 position of TAG is replaced by a two-carbon acetyl group. —Liu et al.

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Oil Industrial Industry Nebraska

NIST Awards $123M in 12 Recovery Act Grants for New Research Facilities; Univ. of Ky CAER to Expand Capacitor and Battery Manufacturing Research with its $11.8M Award

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JANUARY 8, 2010

With ultimate research targets ranging from off-shore wind power and coral reef ecology to electrochemical energy storage, quantum physics and nanotechnology, the 12 projects will launch more than $250 million in new laboratory construction projects beginning early this year. for a pilot-scale laboratory for carbon-neutral energy solutions.

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Grant Kentucky Manufacturer Universal

The Case for EV Charging in Every City - Big or Small

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APRIL 12, 2021

However, some of the demand lag comes down to the usual suspect: range anxiety. Batteries have made big strides, but they are still largely limited to about a 250-mile range on the high end. The fear that an EV’s battery won’t last as long as it needs to is one of the biggest barriers to consumer adoption. If the U.S.

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Charging Gas-Electric Colorado Nebraska

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. Click to enlarge.

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Carbon Emissions CO2 Nebraska

USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The project will be the next step in CTDOT's zero emission bus deployment program with the goal to minimize the carbon emissions of Connecticut's bus fleet. City of Lincoln, Nebraska. Park City Transit will purchase long-range battery electric 35' Proterra Catalyst E2 buses with depot chargers to replace diesel buses.

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Purchase St. Louis Jacksonville Fleet

EPA Posts Peer Review of Renewable Fuel Standards Lifecycle Analysis

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AUGUST 7, 2009

Richard Houghton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Dr. Rattan Lal, Ohio State University; Dr. Jason Tullis, University of Arkansas; and Dr. Brian Wardlow, University of Nebraska. Reviewers offered time frame lengths ranging from 13 to 100 years. Peer reviewers offered suggested discount rate values ranging from 0% to 7.9%.

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Study casting doubt on GHG benefits of corn stover ethanol draws sharp criticism by other researchers; Liska responds

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

The study led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln assistant professor Adam Liska, funded through a three-year, $500,000-grant from the US Department of Energy, used carbon dioxide measurements taken from 2001 to 2010 to validate a soil carbon model that was built using data from 36 field studies across North America. Liska et al.

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Climate Change Climate Nebraska Carbon

BNL team devises new method to boost oil accumulation in plant leaves; implications for biofuel production

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

The key to increasing oil accumulation in these studies was to unravel the details of the biochemical pathways involved in the conversion of carbon into fatty acids, the storage of fatty acids as oil, and the breakdown of oil in leaves. —Changcheng Xu, research team leader. —John Shanklin.

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Oil Production Nebraska Conversion

ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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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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Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion

DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

improved oilseed crop that uses carbon more efficiently than. streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. several genes that allow the plant to use light more efficiently, increase its carbon uptake, and divert more energy to the. conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. range of cultivation.

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State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

Study Finds That Higher Ethanol Blends Result in Improved Energy Efficiency in Flex-Fuel Engines, Partially Offsetting Reduced Energy Density of Fuel

Consortium for Algal Biofuel Commercialization releases final report on 6-year project

Researchers modify camelina to produce highest levels yet in transgenic plant oil of novel lipid acetyl-TAG; biofuel and industrial use

NIST Awards $123M in 12 Recovery Act Grants for New Research Facilities; Univ. of Ky CAER to Expand Capacitor and Battery Manufacturing Research with its $11.8M Award

The Case for EV Charging in Every City - Big or Small

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

USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

EPA Posts Peer Review of Renewable Fuel Standards Lifecycle Analysis

Study casting doubt on GHG benefits of corn stover ethanol draws sharp criticism by other researchers; Liska responds

BNL team devises new method to boost oil accumulation in plant leaves; implications for biofuel production

ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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