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TdVib commercializing CMI technology for recycling rare earth elements from electronic waste

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Recently, TdVib LLC , a company based out of Boone, Iowa, signed a license agreement for the technology with Iowa State University Research Foundation, which handles patenting and technology transfer activities for Ames Laboratory. The CMI process does not require pre-heating, which leads to reduction in pollution and energy usage.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION. Graham recently declared, “ Economy-wide cap-and-trade is dead. ”

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