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3 Duke Energy subsidiaries plead guilty to 9 criminal violations of Clean Water Act; $102M settlement

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Four of the charges are the direct result of the massive coal ash spill from the Dan River steam station into the Dan River near Eden, North Carolina, in February 2014. As part of their plea agreements, Duke Energy Business Services LLC, Duke Energy Carolinas LLC and Duke Energy Progress Inc. million tons of coal ash).

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DOE to award ~$13.5M to 16 R&D projects for solid-oxide fuel cell technologies

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SOFC technologies enable efficient, cost-effective electricity generation from abundant domestic coal and natural gas resources, with minimal use of water and near-zero atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and pollutants. R&D areas of interest included, but were not limited to: Cell manufacturing and quality control.

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The Only Thing Rising Again In The South Is Fatal Flood Waters #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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Water will be the primary byproduct. A novel metal complex for electrolysis of water will be used to generate the hydrogen at high rates. Medical University of South Carolina. of South Carolina). per gallon. The project also will develop a chemical method to transform butanol into jet fuel. Harvard, Univ.

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