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ES&T editorial calls Keystone XL a “pipeline to nowhere”

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Jerald Schnoor, also a professor in the departments of civil & environmental engineering and occupational & environmental health at the University of Iowa, has written an editorial for the journal in which he calls the Keystone XL pipeline a “ pipeline to nowhere ”. Use of coal, oil, and natural gas has to stop (in that order).

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WSU researcher creates cooking-oil based bio-asphalt

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Made from the residue left behind after production of gasoline, plastics, and other materials, asphalt still commands $700-800 per ton, or half the price of gasoline at $1,500 per ton, Wen estimates. In Iowa, for example, scientists are making a corn-based bioasphalt from residue left after the production of ethanol.

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