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Coltura: Federal & state EV policy & incentives must target gasoline superusers to achieve carbon emissions goals

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Advocacy group Coltura has published a report that finds converting the biggest users of gasoline to EVs in the next ten years is critical to reaching climate goals and that present EV policies are poorly suited to accomplishing that conversion. Louis have the highest concentration of superusers among US metro areas.

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Virginia Clean Cities requests proposals from Southeastern fleets interested in converting to propane Autogas

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Funding to cover the parts and labor for vehicle conversions will be provided under the Southeast Propane Autogas Development Program. This is the second phase of funding availability under the Program, which began in December 2009 and will continue through 2013. The application deadline is Friday, 12 August 2011, at 5pm EDT.

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Velocys’ Bayou Fuels project set to produce negative emission fuels; partnering with Oxy

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a wholly owned subsidiary of Velocys plc, signed an agreement with Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC (OLCV), to capture CO 2 from Velocys’ planned Bayou Fuels biomass-to-fuels project in Natchez, Mississippi, and securely store it underground in a geologic formation. Velocys, Inc., —Henrik Wareborn, CEO at Velocys.

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DOE pulls grant funding from BlueFire Renewables cellulosic biofuels plant

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BlueFire said it would exhaust all options available to it in order to reverse the DOE’s decision. BlueFire was established to deploy the Arkenol Process Technology for the conversion of cellulosic waste materials into renewable fuels and other products. BlueFire Renewables, Inc., Earlier post.).

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USDA establishes four additional Biomass Crop Assistance Program project areas

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Project areas announced include: Project Area Number 2 is in Arkansas and targets 2011 enrollment of 5,588 acres in Craighead, Greene, Jackson, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett, and Randolph counties. The sponsor for this project is MFA Oil Biomass LLC and the project area surrounds the co-op’s biomass conversion facility in Aurora, Mo.

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Waste Management Makes Strategic Investment in Waste-to-Fuels Company Enerkem

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The Enerkem process has four steps: feedstock pre-treatment; gasification; syngas conditioning; and conversion. The gasifier operates at low severities (temperatures of approximately 700 ºC and pressures below 10 atm), which allows for the use of known, available, and inexpensive construction materials and refractories.

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DOE to Award Up to $16.5M to RD Initiatives for Renewable Hydrocarbon Transportation Fuels Via Pyrolysis and Sustainable Bioenergy Feedstock Production

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The first initiative will invest up to $12 million over three years for four projects to advance technologies for the thermochemical conversion via pyrolysis of biomass into advanced biofuels that are compatible with existing fueling infrastructure. The US Department of Energy (DOE) will invest up to $16.5 With funding of up to $4.5