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JULY 22, 2018

West Virginia University (WVU) researchers are opening a new facility to capture rare earth elements (REEs) from acid mine drainage (AMD) from coal mining. Paul Ziemkiewicz, director of the West Virginia Water Research Institute and principal investigator on the project, is an expert in acid mine drainage.

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West Virginia Coal Virginia Waste 170

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Sensing and Educating the Nexus to Sustain Ecosystems (SENSE) This project expands and enhances the capabilities of Kentucky and West Virginia to study surface water, providing a foundation for understanding how agriculture and hydropower production affect water quality. Murray State University. David White.

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). The researchers included a sixth pollutant, ammonia (NH 3 ).

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JANUARY 15, 2012

Although regulatory agencies have mandated ultra low sulfur diesel, contribution of sulfur from lubrication oil has proven significant toward producing precursors for sulfuric acid nucleation in the presence of exhaust after-treatment systems. Credit: ACS, Thiruvengadam et al. Click to enlarge. —Thiruvengadam et al.

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Exhaust Diesel West Virginia 2007 218

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

The gas is first cooled to condense and remove moisture and residual pollutants before it enters the CO 2 absorber. In a commercial application, this CO 2 stream would be compressed and transported for use in industrial processes, such as enhanced oil recovery, or for injection and storage in a suitable underground geological formation.

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EPRI CO2 Coal Carbon 223

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JULY 1, 2015

For example, the state with the largest state subsidies ($7500) for BEVs is West Virginia, which is under the RFC region, where the Nissan LEAF and the Chevy Volt are likely higher emitting than the Toyota Prius. —Tamayao et al. Mili-Ann M. Tamayao, Jeremy J. Michalek, Chris Hendrickson, and Inês M. 5b00815.

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