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to Fulcrum Sierra Biofuels, LLC to build a biorefinery to produce jet fuel from municipal solid waste (MSW) via a proprietary two-stage thermochemical process. The cleaned syngas is them processed through an amine system to capture and remove sulfur and carbon dioxide. Earlier post.). Sapphire has already paid off its $54.5-million
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San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico. DOE Funding: $1,483,787.
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Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy has initiated a working group to develop a United States protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon in their soil. The current system for voluntary carbon transactions is broken and needs to be fixed, group founders said. —Kenneth Medlock. —Jim Blackburn.
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These are used exclusively for the Volkswagen Group in a round trip scheme across the North Atlantic serving the markets of Canada, the USA, Mexico and Europe. Apart from chemicals and waste disposal, the assessment criteria also include emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, particulate emissions and sulfur oxides.
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