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Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2013
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. Should the Keystone XL project be denied, WCSB oil sands production could decline by 0.4
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 8, 2010
The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. million to Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind.)
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 18, 2015
As reported in a paper in Plant Biotechnology Journal , this successful metabolic engineering and subsequent field production of the modified camelina crop marked the highest accumulation of the unusual oil achieved so far in transgenic plants. One of the team’s goals is to make commercial products using oils from the engineered plants.
Green Car Congress
JULY 23, 2009
million towards fundamental genomics-enabled research leading to the improved use of plant feedstocks for biofuel production. Awards have been selected for: Accelerating the Domestication of Miscanthus for Biofuel Production. Mechanism of Carbon Partitioning Regulation by cpg13 in the Bioenergy Woody Crop Poplar. Earlier post.)
Green Car Congress
APRIL 21, 2014
Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and under some conditions can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a major, multi-year study by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln team of researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Liska et al. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 30, 2014
The study led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln assistant professor Adam Liska, funded through a three-year, $500,000-grant from the US Department of Energy, used carbon dioxide measurements taken from 2001 to 2010 to validate a soil carbon model that was built using data from 36 field studies across North America.
Green Cars News
JULY 23, 2009
Seven projects have picked up a total of $6.3million towards fundamental genomics-enabled research that will lead to the improved use of plant feedstocks and biofuel production. The grants come from the US Departments of Energy and Agriculture under a joint DOE-USDA program that began in 2006.
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