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DOE awards $35M to 12 ARPA-E projects to reduce methane emissions; 5 on natural gas engines

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The project team’s technology will consist of a novel methane oxidation catalyst (MOC) formulation capable of high conversion efficiencies at the lower exhaust temperatures in ultra-lean burn engines. University of Minnesota will use plasma-assisted combustion to enhance flare methane destruction efficiency.

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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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