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Large-scale CO2 injection test begins in Illinois

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The Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium (MGSC), one of seven regional partnerships created by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to advance carbon storage technologies nationwide ( earlier post ), has begun injecting carbon dioxide for their large-scale CO 2 injection test in Decatur, Illinois. billion metric tons.

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Ford cuts manufacturing energy use 22% in 6 years; targeting additional 25% Drop by 2016

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Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Researchers will develop systems for tagging CO 2 with carbon-14 at atmospheric level (1 part per trillion) and measuring the carbon-14 CO 2 levels. PEM is commercializing a carbon-14 field-ready analyzer with a sensitivity of approximately 1 part per million of fossil fuel-produced CO 2 in ambient air. PEM), Cambridge, Mass.

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Are EVs Charged Mostly By Coal Power in the US?

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And the reality is that the grid in many parts of the country will get greener at a faster rate than the EV sales share. And of those states, only two states — the aforementioned Colorado — and Illinois have more than 30% of their electricity from coal. Just don’t leave out the part about how few EVs that actually is in the US.

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Energy Biosciences Institute Adds Microbially Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery Project

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More than two dozen scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will participate in the investigations. This includes water and rock geochemistry and hydrocarbon composition and will chart the geologic thermal burial history of each sample.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The 43 winning proposals were submitted by transit agencies from across the country as part of a nationwide competition for the $100 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funds. Illinois Department of Transportation on behalf of seven transit agencies, Illinois: $4,030,000.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000. BioBlend Renewable Resources (Elk Grove Village, Illinois).