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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A team of researchers from the Critical Materials Institute (CMI), a US Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the Ames Laboratory, developed a novel way to extract rare earth elements from the high-powered magnets in electronic waste ( earlier post ). And that’s how we do our recycling. It’s a very efficient and robust process.

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MAY 31, 2023

Dow and New Energy Blue announced a long-term supply agreement in North America in which New Energy Blue will create bio-based ethylene from renewable agricultural residues. This is also Dow’s first agreement in North America to utilize agriculture residues for plastic production.

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JULY 29, 2015

Neste, Renewable Energy Group (REG) and Solazyme will supply renewable diesel to UPS to help facilitate the company’s shift to move more than 12% of its purchased ground fuel from conventional diesel and gasoline fuel to alternative fuels by the end of 2017.

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Renewable Diesel Alternative Fuels Louisiana 150

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). Cyanobacteria Designed for Solar-Powered Highly Efficient Production of Biofuels. General Motors will develop a shape memory alloy (SMA) energy recovery device that will convert waste heat from car engines to electricity. WASTE HEAT CAPTURE. Biomass Energy (5 projects). Water (1 project).

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APRIL 10, 2010

states are already actively participating in the design and implementation of three regional cap-and-trade programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The WCI released a design document laying out its basic program parameters in September 2008. In May 2009, the Advisory Group released their draft final design recommendations.

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