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Velocys receives FONSI from USDA for planned Mississippi biorefinery; wood waste to drop-in fuels

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Velocys plc announced that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) on the environmental assessment report for Velocys’ planned Bayou Fuels biorefinery in Natchez, Mississippi. No opposing or negative comments were filed as part of the USDA’s public consultation process.

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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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Illinois Basin (Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee): Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois aims to lead a project to evaluate the domestic occurrence of strategic elements in coal, coal-based resources and waste streams from coal use. DOE Funding: $1,499,987. DOE Funding: $1,499,647. DOE Funding: $1,500,000.

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Alberta Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation Awarding C$37.5 Million in Funding for Renewable Energy Projects from Biofuels to Home Generation

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Alberta, Canada’s Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCMEC) Corporation is awarding more than C$37.5 million) to five Alberta-based renewable energy projects including waste to biofuels and energy, concentrating solar power, biogas and home generation. million (US$36.6 City of Medicine Hat , C$3 million (US$2.9

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DOE and USDA Select Projects for More Than $24M in Biomass Research and Development Grants

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Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corporation (Columbus, OH) up to $1,800,000: to demonstrate, at scale, the operation of a dry fermentation system that uses pre- and post-consumer food wastes from supermarkets and restaurants, waste sawdust, grass, leaves, stumps and other forms of wood waste to produce biogas, heat, and electrical power.

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DOE Makes First Awards from $1.4B for Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Projects

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The objective of this project is to capture, condition, and transport by pipeline approximately 1 million tons per year of by-product and off-gas CO 2 streams from facilities located along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans for geologic storage. Archer Daniels Midland Corporation. DOE Share: $3,000,000).

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

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wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. Corporation, Columbia. at San Diego, Mississippi State. Corporation). Corporation). Corporation. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. photosynthesis, the process used by green plants to capture. light energy.

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