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OCTOBER 31, 2016

A regional interdisciplinary team led by Montana State University has received $6 million from the National Science Foundation to address questions about whether biofuels and carbon capture technologies can be sustainably introduced into the Upper Missouri River Basin.

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JANUARY 24, 2012

Independent studies as well as Iowa State University research sponsored by POET, have shown that this amount of residue removal will not cause significant nutrient loss. DSM and POET will each hold a 50% share in the joint venture, which will be headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

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MARCH 11, 2009

The seven partnerships form a national network that is investigating the best approaches for capturing and permanently storing CO 2. The results of the PCOR Partnership’s Phase I characterization activities indicated that the region’s low-rank coal seams have the capacity to store up to 8 billion tons of CO 2.

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MAY 23, 2009

Coring of the Elk Point rock formations at Fort Nelson will provide researchers, geologists, and reservoir experts with characterization data of the carbonate formations that will be used to store the CO 2 and the impermeable shale layers above that will act as a cap rock to contain the CO 2.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2011

One of single largest projects comes from Jeff Dangl at the University of North Carolina and his colleagues and focuses on the rhizosphere—the narrow region where microbes in the soil colonize and interact with plant roots. —Eddy Rubin, DOE JGI Director.

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