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at 468, one that was designed to function as a gap filler and had rarely been used in the preceding decades. Utility Air, 573 U.S., It located that newfound power in the vague language of an “ancillary provision[]” of the Act, Whitman, 531 U.S.,
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million grant from the US Department of Energy to design and engineer an integrated carbon dioxide capture and conversion plant co-located at Nutrien’s Kennewick Fertilizer Operations plant in Kennewick, Wash. Carbon dioxide capture company AirCapture and carbon dioxide conversion company OCOchem, along with other partners, have won a $2.93-million
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