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DECEMBER 9, 2022

Air Products and The AES Corporation plan to invest approximately $4 billion to build, own and operate a green hydrogen production facility in Wilbarger County, Texas. million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually when compared to diesel use in heavy-duty trucks.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

Occidental announced that a wholly owned subsidiary— 1PointFive —has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire all the outstanding equity of Carbon Engineering Ltd. (CE) Occidental has been working with Carbon Engineering on direct air capture (DAC) deployment since 2019. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 1, 2023

Nacero will transition its current pre-construction, multi-billion USD facility in Penwell, Texas—designed to produce low carbon gasoline—to the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and lower carbon aviation fuel (LCAF).

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M and Stanford have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks. We distinguished ammonium carbamate pairs and a mix of ammonium carbamate and carbamic acid during carbon dioxide chemisorption.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Texas-based fuel company Nacero ( earlier post ) will build its second low- and zero-carbon fuels plant in Newport Township, Pennsylvania. The new manufacturing facility will produce low- and zero-lifecycle carbon footprint gasoline blendstock made from natural gas and renewable natural gas.

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MAY 9, 2023

Tesla broke ground on its in-house $375-million, 50 GWh/year lithium refinery outside of Corpus Christi, Texas. The byproduct of the Tesla process is a mixture of sand and calcium carbonate—a viable additive in the production of construction materials, allowing the company to make use of this waste stream.

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APRIL 2, 2023

signed a letter of intent to develop and construct jointly a world-scale low-carbon blue ammonia production facility as equal partners. The proposed facility, which includes autothermal reforming with carbon capture, will be located at the Enbridge Ingleside Energy Center (EIEC) near Corpus Christi, Texas.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

McDermott International, a premier, fully-integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions (ECS) to the energy industry, has joined a consortium of public, private and academic partners collaborating on a US Department of Energy (DOE) project—Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond.

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JULY 20, 2023

Researchers from the University of Bialystok (Poland), the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and colleagues have achieved the highest specific capacitance value reported of 638 F g −1 in aqueous acidic solutions by combining spherical carbon nanostructures with covalent triazine-based frameworks. —Hryniewicka et al.

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JUNE 30, 2023

BASF and Yara Clean Ammonia are collaborating on a joint study to develop and construct a world-scale low-carbon blue ammonia production facility with carbon capture in the US Gulf Coast region. to serve the growing global demand for low-carbon ammonia. million tons p.a.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

Fulcrum BioEnergy, a clean energy company pioneering the creation of renewable, drop-in transportation fuels from landfill waste, successfully produced a low-carbon synthetic crude oil using landfill waste as a feedstock at its Sierra BioFuels Plant, the world’s first commercial-scale landfill waste-to-fuels plant. Source: Fulcrum BioEnergy.

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MARCH 2, 2022

ExxonMobil is planning a hydrogen production plant and one of the world’s largest carbon capture and storage projects at its integrated refining and petrochemical site at Baytown, Texas, supporting efforts to reduce emissions from company operations and local industry.

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JUNE 24, 2021

This program is currently available for eligible owners of Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehicles in Texas. GM plans to be carbon neutral in global products and operations by 2040 and has committed to science-based targets that align with the most ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement. of EV charging.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Cabot Corporation plans to add conductive carbon additives (CCA) capacity in the United States to enhance its position in the market and support the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). CCAs are an essential component of lithium-ion battery chemistry and are used to provide sufficient electrical conductivity to the active materials.

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APRIL 23, 2021

Nacero has licensed Topsoe TIGAS (Topsoe Improved Gasoline Synthesis) technology for its multi-billion USD natural-gas-to-gasoline facility in Penwell, Texas to produce 100,000 barrels per day of gasoline component ready for blending into US commercial grades. Nacero’s Pemwell-facility in Houston, Texas.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Materials to pursue the offtake of blue ammonia from ExxonMobil’s planned low-carbon hydrogen project at its integrated complex in Baytown, Texas. The company says that blue ammonia will replace conventional coal as a main fuel and accelerate energy transition with less carbon footprint and cleaner power.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy has initiated a working group to develop a United States protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon in their soil. The current system for voluntary carbon transactions is broken and needs to be fixed, group founders said. —Kenneth Medlock. —Jim Blackburn.

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JUNE 21, 2021

Aemetis awarded an engineering services contract to Worley for the Aemetis ‘Carbon Zero’ renewable jet and diesel plant in Riverbank, California. The Aemetis Carbon Zero renewable jet and diesel project is designed to hydrotreat renewable oils with hydrogen from orchard and forest wood waste. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 18, 2023

People from Chevron and Toyota will be driving Toyota’s Tundra, RAV4 and Camry on this road trip with the objective of demonstrating the fuel, which is more than 40% less carbon intensive than traditional gasoline on a lifecycle basis, according to Chevron. The road trip will run from Mississippi through Louisiana before concluding in Texas.

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JUNE 15, 2023

Beyond manufacturing a product that enables more eco-friendly transportation, the new lines will help reduce the facility’s carbon footprint through equipment that requires the use of less air. Additionally, new LED high-bay lighting, controlled by Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, will be installed to reduce energy use.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced $4 million in federal funding for national laboratories to collaborate with international partners on seven projects out of the 12 that were selected as a part of the Accelerating Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies (ACT) Initiative. million of which €31.5

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

million grant to researchers at Texas A&M AgriLife Research to investigate potential discoveries for waste products used in lignocellulosic biofuel production, turning them into valuable agents used in producing commercial products such as biodiesel and asphalt binding agents. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a $2.2-million

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JULY 20, 2022

Tesla aims to start ramping 4680 cell production at Gigafactory Texas by the end of Q3 2022. Tesla Giga Texas already produced its first 4680 cells. “We are making progress on 4680 but right now—as Elon mentioned—we are leveraging supplier cells which we have in sufficient quantity to ramp Texas and Berlin.

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JULY 8, 2022

Octopus Energy, a UK-based electric utility company that recently crossed the pond to offer “100% carbon-free energy” to Texans, is now offering a program in the Lone Star state that has been a mainstay of their UK branch for a long time — the EV Concierge. You can also reach me on Twitter @ WilliamWritin.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Musk shared some particular insights about his primary home in Texas and his remaining property in California. So far, Elon Musk appears to be quite content with his current accommodations in Texas as it allows him to be closer to Tesla and SpaceX’s most ambitious projects to date.

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MAY 25, 2011

A report from MIT and The University of Texas at Austin urges the US to accelerate efforts to pursue carbon capture and storage (CCS) in combination with enhanced oil recovery (EOR), a practice that could increase domestic oil production while significantly curbing emissions of carbon dioxide. CO 2 could be employed.

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APRIL 20, 2022

A fleet of Tesla Model 3s will now be the patrol vehicles for Dallas County, Texas, law enforcement officers. The vehicle is also the only Model 3 trim to come with Performance Brakes, 20″ Überturbine Wheels, a Carbon Fiber Spoiler, and Aluminum Alloy Pedals. Current delivery timeframes sit between June and August 2022.

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MAY 14, 2023

Dow and X-Energy Reactor Company, a developer of advanced nuclear reactors and fuel technology for clean energy generation, announced that Dow has selected its UCC Seadrift Operations manufacturing site in Texas for its proposed advanced small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear project. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 12, 2023

billion to advance the development of two commercial-scale direct air capture facilities in Texas and Louisiana. The investment—the largest in engineered carbon removal yet—will eventually remove more than 250 times more carbon dioxide than the largest DAC facility currently operating. Carbon Negative Shot Pilots.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

The Commissioners of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) voted unanimously to grant the air quality permits necessary for the $3.5 billion 600-megawatt (net) Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Center under development near Sweetwater, Texas to begin construction. The project has also been awarded a $7.7-million

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JULY 14, 2023

an experienced developer of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCS) solutions and enhanced oil recovery. Acquiring Denbury reflects our determination to profitably grow our Low Carbon Solutions business by serving a range of hard-to-decarbonize industries with a comprehensive carbon capture and sequestration offering.

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JANUARY 18, 2012

CPS Energy of San Antonio has signed a Power Purchase Agreement for approximately 200 MW of power from the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP), located just west of Midland-Odessa. The agreement marks the first US purchase by a utility of low-carbon power from a commercial-scale, coal-based power plant utilizing carbon capture.

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Blue” products are produced utilizing hydrocarbons as a feedstock, with the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) in the production process captured for permanent sequestration. The project will also be the world’s largest carbon capture for sequestration operation, permanently sequestering >5 MTPY of CO 2.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The projects selected projects as part of the MINER program are: University of Texas at Arlington. RECLAIM: Electrochemical Lithium and Nickel Extraction with Concurrent Carbon Dioxide Mineralization ($2,999,997). Olivine is a CO 2 -reactive waste product that can be returned as tailings after capture carbon from the air.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

TeraWatt Infrastructure is developing the first network of high-powered charging centers for heavy-duty and medium-duty electric trucks along the Interstate 10 (I-10) highway, stretching from the Port of Long Beach - Los Angeles, California to the El Paso, Texas area.

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MAY 16, 2016

Texas Mineral Resources Corp. At these recoveries, and assuming a 20,000 tpd (tonnes per day) operation as envisioned in the 2013 Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA), recoveries of as much as 9,000 tons per year of lithium carbonate are suggested. Texas Mineral Resources Corp.’s

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MARCH 10, 2010

Located in Thompsons, TX, the post-combustion capture and sequestration project will demonstrate advanced technology to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide. NRG will construct a 60 megawatt carbon capture demonstration facility at the company’s W.A. Parish Unit 7 in Thompsons, Texas.

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