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Nebraska provides TransCanada with map identifying Sandhills Regions to be avoided in designing alternative route for Keystone XL pipeline

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The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ) has released a map of the areas that it considers to be Nebraska Sandhills, based on an analysis of a variety of existing data. NDEQ is conveying this to TransCanada for reference as the company develops a proposed new route for the Nebraska portion of the Keystone XL pipeline.

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State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

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The US Department of State (DOS) has released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in response to TransCanada’s May 2012 application for the Keystone XL pipeline that would run from Canada’s oils sands in Alberta to Nebraska. What Keystone XL would carry. Greenhouse gas LCA analysis. Source: Draft SEIS.

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Serendipitous discovery by IUPUI researchers may lead to environmentally friendly lubricants

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The Orychophragmus violaceus plant is a purple flower native to China; it’s commonly referred to as the February orchid. violaceus plant’s biology and genetic makeup, researchers at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, China, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln noticed the February orchid seed oils were unusual.

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California ARB posts two new ethanol fuel pathways for LCFS

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Trenton Agri Products, LLC (TAP) produces ethanol from corn at a dry mill plant in Trenton, Nebraska. The reference pathways for TAP’s proposed pathways are two. Both TAP pathways improve upon their reference pathway CIs by more than the requisite five grams of CO 2 e/MJ. The proposed LAICA pathway adds 11.31 The plant is a.

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MSU-led regional team awarded $6M NSF grant to research biofuel, carbon capture technologies

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The Upper Missouri River Basin refers to the Missouri River and all its tributaries upstream of Sioux City, Iowa. The basin contains parts or most of five states—Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota and Nebraska—and more than 20 Indian reservations.

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VeraSun Obtains $280M “Stalking Horse” Bid from Valero for Six Ethanol Facilities; Seeking to Sell All Assets

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As part of the sales process, having entered into the Valero agreement, VeraSun is now required to hold an auction to determine if other bidders will offer more favorable terms than Valero’s bid, referred to as a “stalking horse” bid. The “Marion Group” consists of the production facility in Marion, South Dakota.

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Researchers modify camelina to produce highest levels yet in transgenic plant oil of novel lipid acetyl-TAG; biofuel and industrial use

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For example, they possess reduced kinematic viscosity and lower melting points compared to conventional triacylglycerols (here referred to aslcTAGs). The presence of the sn-3 acetyl group confers useful physical, chemical and nutritional properties to these molecules. Previously, we identified an acetyltransferase, EaDAcT, from E.

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