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Battery-grade lithium carbonate forecast to trade at $74K/tonne in 12 months

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2022

Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations forecast battery-grade lithium carbonate to trade at 504,813 CNY (US$74,000) per tonne in 12 months time. Lithium carbonate is forecast to trade near its high. The only lithium production in the United States currently is from one brine operation in Nevada.

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Stellantis partners with CARB to reduce carbon emissions

Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2024

Stellantis and CARB (California Air Resources Board) partnered to reduce carbon emissions. California’s work with leading manufacturers is an example of the collaboration that will clean our air, combat climate change, and improve health outcomes for residents in the state,” said CARB Chair Liane Randolph.

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Occidental to acquire direct air capture technology company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B

Green Car Congress

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.) Earlier post.)

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S&P Global: increasing trade of low-carbon biofuel feedstocks heightens supply constraint concerns

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2023

says that ambitious policies in North America and Europe for the development of renewable diesel production have led to a surge in international trade of these low-carbon biofuel feedstocks—favored for their lower carbon intensity and their non-competing use with arable lands. The chase is on, and it is here to stay.

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Carbon emissions from generating electricity for electric vehicles vary greatly across the individual US states

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2023

According to the EIA , “the plants that are the source of biomass for energy capture almost the same amount of CO 2 through photosynthesis while growing as is released when biomass is burned, which can make biomass a carbon-neutral energy source.” Therefore, biomass as energy source was assumed to produce no additional carbon emission.

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Summit Ag Group launches world’s largest CCS project; to reduce carbon footprint of biorefineries by up to 50%

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Summit Agricultural Group, a diversified agribusiness operator and investment manager with operations in the United States and Brazil, has created Summit Carbon Solutions (SCS), a new business platform that will develop the world’s largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. Green Plains Inc. Green Plains Inc.

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Clean Energy and Total to create JV to develop carbon-negative RNG and infrastructure in US; $50M from bp

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2020

will create a 50/50 joint venture to develop carbon-negative renewable natural gas (RNG) production facilities in the United States, as well as credit support to build additional downstream RNG fueling infrastructure. Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and its largest shareholder, Total S.E., 50M from bp.

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Clean Cleaning Carbon Energy

Denmark, Norway, & the United States to Lead Zero-Emission Shipping Mission

CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 3, 2021

The governments of Denmark, Norway, and the United States, along with the Global Maritime Forum and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping, today announced that they will lead a new Zero-Emission Shipping Mission as part of Mission Innovation.

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DOE announces $18.6M to support production of low-carbon biofuels and bioproducts

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

To meet the growing demand for SAFs and other low-carbon biofuels, affordable feedstocks sources must be developed. 1,750,000 New Mexico State University Anti-Virulence Approaches to Treat Algal Crops (AVATAC) This project will identify antivirulence molecules that will be tested against bacterial pathogens of multiple relevant algal strains.

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Cabot to invest $200M over next 5 years in US conductive carbon additives capacity for Li-ion batteries

Green Car Congress

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).

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Li-ion Carbon Batteries Battery

Monolith to collaborate with Goodyear on carbon black for its tire production; methane pyrolysis

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Monolith , a leader in clean carbon black production, signed a collaboration agreement and letter of intent (LOI) with The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, one of the world's largest tire companies. Monolith’s carbon black enables manufacturers such as Goodyear to meet sustainability goals and demand for clean materials.

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Global Carbon Project: Global carbon emissions growth slows, but hits record high

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Driven by rising natural gas and oil consumption, levels of CO 2 are expected to hit 37 billion metric tons this year, according to new estimates from the Global Carbon Project (GCP), an initiative led by Stanford University scientist Rob Jackson. and China account for more than half of all carbon dioxide emissions globally.

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Stellantis and Terrafame agree on low-carbon nickel sulfate supply for EV batteries

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2023

Stellantis plans reaching 100% of passenger car battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales mix in Europe and 50% passenger car and light-duty truck BEV sales mix in the United States by 2030.

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Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, Rusheen Capital Management create company to deploy Carbon Engineering’s direct air capture technology

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2020

Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC, a subsidiary of Occidental, and Rusheen Capital Management, a private equity firm, have formed a development company, 1PointFive, to finance and to deploy Carbon Engineering ’s large-scale Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology. Carbon Engineering’s DAC technology has four major elements.

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Maersk and Carbon Sink partner to accelerate green methanol production; Maersk’s 8th green methanol deal

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Moller - Maersk (Maersk) has entered a green methanol partnership with US-based project developer Carbon Sink LLC. The parties have signed a Letter of Intent covering the development by Carbon Sink of green methanol production facilities in the United States. —Berit Hinnemann, Head of Green Fuels Sourcing, A.P.

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Chevron to acquire full ownership of Beyond6 CNG fueling network

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, signed a definitive agreement to acquire full ownership of Beyond6, LLC (B6) and its network of 55 compressed natural gas (CNG) stations across the United States from Chevron’s current B6 co-owners, a subsidiary of Mercuria Energy Trading (Mercuria) and B6 CEO Andrew West.

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UGA study: carinata-based SAF can deliver about 65% relative carbon savings compared to conventional jet fuel

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2021

A team at yhe Universiy of Georgia has estimated the break-even price and life cycle carbon emissions of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) derived from oil obtained from Brassica carinata—a non-edible oilseed crop—in the Southeastern United States. The total carbon emission was 918.67 g CO 2 e L ?1

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Should more regulatory responsibility for carbon reduction fall on oil companies?

Green Car Reports

JANUARY 3, 2022

Regulating carbon emissions from the oil and gas industry would allow the United States to reach its climate goals faster, argues a recent opinion piece by an oil industry veteran published in The Hill. carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions come from burning oil and natural gas, and 1.4 Over 80% of U.S.

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National Academies to conduct study on methods of LCA of low-carbon transportation fuels

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2021

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is forming a committee that will conduct a study on the current methods for life cycle analyses (LCA) of low-carbon transportation fuels in the United States.

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Carbon Transportation Fuel United States

ArcelorMittal North The united states to offer renewably produced metal to Common Motors

Baua Electric

JUNE 7, 2023

CEO Aditya Mittal had mentioned in March that stripping out carbon from metal manufacturing would pressure up costs through about 10 p.c “It is steel with physically lower CO2 emissions, which will help drive the achievement of ArcelorMittal’s goal to be carbon-neutral,” mentioned Peter Leblanc, CMO Car, at ArcelorMittal.

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United States Renewable Motor Motors

NASEM announces provisional committee for new study on life cycle analyses of low-carbon fuels

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2021

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM’s) Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (BEST) announced the provisional committee for a new consensus study, Current Methods for Life Cycle Analyses of Low Carbon Transportation Fuels in the United States. The committee members are: Valerie M.

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Continental Structural Plastics perfects carbon fiber RTM process, launches production programs

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Continental Structural Plastics (CSP) has fine-tuned its carbon fiber RTM (resin transfer molding) (CF-RTM) process to the point that a premium automaker will be using the technology for closures on future vehicle platforms. We have been targeting a 3-minute cycle time using 100 percent recycled carbon fiber.

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Carbon Fiber Carbon Portugal Production

Nuseed, bp partner to accelerate market adoption of Nuseed Carinata as a sustainable low-carbon biofuel feedstock

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Nuseed Carinata is a non-food cover crop that can be used to produce low-carbon biofuel feedstock that is independently certified, sustainable and scalable. Nuseed is currently increasing commercial production in Argentina and planning expansion programs in South America and the United States. million barrels a year in 2022.

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US Steel and CarbonFree sign MoU to capture CO2 at Gary Works

Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2023

United States Steel Corporation and CarbonFree Chemicals Holdings, LLC (CarbonFree) recently signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) jointly to pursue the capture of CO 2 emissions generated from US Steel’s Gary Works manufacturing plant using CarbonFree’s SkyCycle technology.

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CO2 Indiana Carbon Convert

UGA study finds black carbon aerosols from GDI engines will worsen public health, climate; need for GPFs

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2020

The gasoline direct injection (GDI) engine is one of the most prominent technologies car manufacturers adopted to achieve the fuel economy and carbon dioxide emission goals established in 2012 by the US Environmental Protection Agency. A strong absorber of solar radiation, black carbon exhibits significant climate warming properties.

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Climate Carbon Engine Fuel Economy

United States and China agree to work together on phasing down HFCs

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2013

The United States and China will work together and with other countries to use the expertise and institutions of the Montreal Protocol to phase down the consumption and production of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), among other forms of multilateral cooperation.

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United States Ozone China Climate Change

US Steel announces new electrical steel InduX

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2023

United States Steel Corporation announced that its new electrical steel product, InduX, will begin production at its Big River Steel facility in the summer of 2023 with the commissioning of its new non-grain oriented (NGO) electrical steel line. Earlier post.)

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President of Mexico nationalizes lithium

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Sonora hosts virtually all Mexico’s lithium resources—8.82Mt lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) or 1.66Mt lithium metal. million tons of lithium carbonate equivalent, The capacity of phase I is expected to be 50,000 tons of lithium hydroxide. What we are doing now.

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Gevo and HCS Group to produce renewable low-carbon chemicals and sustainable aviation fuel in Europe

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2021

and HCS Group GmbH, a long-time customer of Gevo, have signed a project memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop and to build a renewable hydrocarbon facility at HCS Group’s site located in Speyer, Germany, which would utilize Gevo’s low-carbon sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology: Alcohol-to-Jet Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene.

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Renewable Carbon Europe Fuel

SK Group’s CES 2024 exhibit to showcase carbon-cutting technologies

Teslarati

DECEMBER 18, 2023

SK Group is building a theme park with carbon-cutting technologies for CES 2024. South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate aims to showcase its carbon-cutting technologies with an interactive amusement park called SK Wonderland. The post SK Group’s CES 2024 exhibit to showcase carbon-cutting technologies appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Baker Institute-led group to develop nationwide protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon

Green Car Congress

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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Store Carbon Texas United States

Chevron / Toyota road trip demonstrates renewable gasoline blend

Green Car Congress

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. United States. doi: 10.2172/1846005

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Chevron Gasoline Renewable Toyota

Nacero selects Topsoe’s TIGAS technology for gas-to-gasoline unit; reducing lifecycle carbon footprint up to 50%

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

The Penwell facility will be the first gasoline manufacturer in the world to incorporate carbon capture and sequestration. The TIGAS technology enables us to cut both the production cost and the lifecycle carbon footprint of everyday fuel by 50%. The captured CO 2 will be used for enhanced oil recovery.

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HyPER project using sorbent-enhanced steam reforming for low-carbon production of H2 from natural gas

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

An international collaboration led by Cranfield University will examine the potential for the low-carbon production of hydrogen from natural gas. The outputs are high-purity streams of hydrogen and carbon dioxide which can be then stored, sold or transported to where it is needed. United States: N. Mays, Jeff.

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Carbon Gas Production Hydrogen

GM to source US-based lithium for future EV batteries from CTR; closed-loop, direct-extraction process

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

This lithium will be produced from geothermal brine through a closed-loop, direct lithium extraction (DLE) process that results in a smaller physical footprint, no production tailing and lower carbon dioxide emissions when compared to traditional processes such as pit mining or evaporation ponds.

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GM Future Batteries Battery

Japan’s new biofuels policy allows for increased imports of US ethanol

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2023

Japan has published a new biofuels policy that will allow the United States to capture up to 100% of Japan’s on-road ethanol market, according to the Office of the United States Trade Representative. utilized in the form of ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE).

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United States Japan Carbon Market

Plug Power invited to submit Part II Application for proposed $520M DOE loan guarantee for green hydrogen production network

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2021

The invitation for the Part II application is for a proposed $520-million loan guarantee from the DOE to support the use of green hydrogen to transform the materials handling, transportation, and industrial sectors in the United States. Today, Plug Power customers are the largest consumers of hydrogen in the United States.

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Hydrogen Plug Parts Green

How Shipping Carbon Dioxide Could Boost Carbon Capture

Cars That Think

MARCH 10, 2022

Early in February, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announced that they will build the world’s first ship for transporting carbon dioxide solely from carbon-capture facilities. Carbon capture is picking up steam around the world as heavy industries and power plants try to meet emissions-reductions targets.

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Carbon Norway Store Transportation

EIA: Almost all US renewable diesel is consumed in California; most isn’t made there

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2023

California accounts for nearly all renewable diesel consumption in the United States, but most of it isn’t made in the state, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Instead, most of California’s renewable diesel was produced in other states or was imported, mostly from Singapore.

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Renewable Diesel California Louisiana

Air Products and AES plan to invest ~$4B for mega-scale green hydrogen production facility in Texas; 200 metric tons per day

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2022

gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar power generation, along with electrolyzer capacity capable of producing more than 200 metric tons per day (MT/D) of green hydrogen, making it the largest green hydrogen facility in the United States. The project is subject to receipt of local permits, and local, state and federal incentives.

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Texas Hydrogen Green Production

California legislature passes SB 100: 100% renewable and zero-carbon energy by 2045

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2018

The California Assembly has passed Senate Bill 100 —a bill to move California to 100% renewable and zero-carbon energy by 2045. The bill also establishes state policy that RPS-eligible and zero-carbon resources supply 100% of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers no later than 31 December 2045.

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California Carbon Renewable Energy

How EVs Are Reducing Carbon (CO2) Emissions

Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

One avenue to combat this crisis is a rapid reduction in carbon emissions from our daily transportation, one of the leading contributors of CO 2 emissions. Enter electric vehicles: a practical step toward reducing carbon emissions and reinforcing sustainable practices. Let’s not forget our carbon footprint.

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Carbon Emissions CO2 Gasoline-Electric

Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

Chan School of Public Health, and consulted by dozens of experts in academia, updates ethanol’s carbon intensity score to reflect how continuous improvements in technology and practices have driven further emissions reductions in the lifecycle of ethanol and will lead to net zero renewable fuel in the future. gCO 2 e/MJ (range of 37.6

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Gasoline Emissions Gasoline-Electric Gas-Electric

27 teams advancing in $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE; converting CO2 to products

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2016

XPRIZE announced the 27 teams representing six countries advancing in the $20-million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, a global competition to develop technologies that convert the most carbon dioxide emissions from natural gas and power plant facilities into products with the highest net value. EE-AGG (United States).Led

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Convert Carbon Coal CO2

Battery-grade lithium carbonate forecast to trade at $74K/tonne in 12 months

Stellantis partners with CARB to reduce carbon emissions

Occidental to acquire direct air capture technology company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B

S&P Global: increasing trade of low-carbon biofuel feedstocks heightens supply constraint concerns

Carbon emissions from generating electricity for electric vehicles vary greatly across the individual US states

Summit Ag Group launches world’s largest CCS project; to reduce carbon footprint of biorefineries by up to 50%

Clean Energy and Total to create JV to develop carbon-negative RNG and infrastructure in US; $50M from bp

Denmark, Norway, & the United States to Lead Zero-Emission Shipping Mission

DOE announces $18.6M to support production of low-carbon biofuels and bioproducts

Cabot to invest $200M over next 5 years in US conductive carbon additives capacity for Li-ion batteries

Monolith to collaborate with Goodyear on carbon black for its tire production; methane pyrolysis

Global Carbon Project: Global carbon emissions growth slows, but hits record high

Stellantis and Terrafame agree on low-carbon nickel sulfate supply for EV batteries

Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, Rusheen Capital Management create company to deploy Carbon Engineering’s direct air capture technology

Maersk and Carbon Sink partner to accelerate green methanol production; Maersk’s 8th green methanol deal

Chevron to acquire full ownership of Beyond6 CNG fueling network

UGA study: carinata-based SAF can deliver about 65% relative carbon savings compared to conventional jet fuel

Should more regulatory responsibility for carbon reduction fall on oil companies?

National Academies to conduct study on methods of LCA of low-carbon transportation fuels

ArcelorMittal North The united states to offer renewably produced metal to Common Motors

NASEM announces provisional committee for new study on life cycle analyses of low-carbon fuels

Continental Structural Plastics perfects carbon fiber RTM process, launches production programs

Nuseed, bp partner to accelerate market adoption of Nuseed Carinata as a sustainable low-carbon biofuel feedstock

US Steel and CarbonFree sign MoU to capture CO2 at Gary Works

UGA study finds black carbon aerosols from GDI engines will worsen public health, climate; need for GPFs

United States and China agree to work together on phasing down HFCs

US Steel announces new electrical steel InduX

President of Mexico nationalizes lithium

Gevo and HCS Group to produce renewable low-carbon chemicals and sustainable aviation fuel in Europe

SK Group’s CES 2024 exhibit to showcase carbon-cutting technologies

Baker Institute-led group to develop nationwide protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon

Chevron / Toyota road trip demonstrates renewable gasoline blend

Nacero selects Topsoe’s TIGAS technology for gas-to-gasoline unit; reducing lifecycle carbon footprint up to 50%

HyPER project using sorbent-enhanced steam reforming for low-carbon production of H2 from natural gas

GM to source US-based lithium for future EV batteries from CTR; closed-loop, direct-extraction process

Japan’s new biofuels policy allows for increased imports of US ethanol

Plug Power invited to submit Part II Application for proposed $520M DOE loan guarantee for green hydrogen production network

How Shipping Carbon Dioxide Could Boost Carbon Capture

EIA: Almost all US renewable diesel is consumed in California; most isn’t made there

Air Products and AES plan to invest ~$4B for mega-scale green hydrogen production facility in Texas; 200 metric tons per day

California legislature passes SB 100: 100% renewable and zero-carbon energy by 2045

How EVs Are Reducing Carbon (CO2) Emissions

Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

27 teams advancing in $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE; converting CO2 to products

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