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5 January 202217 December 2021

Hemp slowly making inroads in the cement and construction industries

Hemp construction is still a niche market waiting to break through into the mainstream, as the CBD industry experiences a glut, the hemp’s undeveloped industrial supply chain has been stuck

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20 October 202119 October 2021

US Secretary of Energy Granholm and US Senator Ossoff Visit LanzaTech Innovation Hub in Georgia and Site of the World’s First LanzaJet Sustainable Fuels Plant

Visit highlights the potential of rural America to create domestic supplies of sustainable fuels and chemicals

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14 October 202111 October 2021

Catalyst Study Advances Carbon-Dioxide-to-Ethanol Conversion

Combination of theory and experiment shows how a three-part catalyst helps transform excess CO2 into useable ethanol

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21 September 202116 September 2021

United, Honeywell Invest in New Clean Tech Venture from Alder Fuels, Powering Biggest Sustainable Fuel Agreement in Aviation History

United agrees to purchase 1.5 billion gallons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) over 20 years - which is one and a half times the size of the rest of the world's airlines' publicly announced SAF commitments combined

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Produktion von nachhaltigem Kraftstoff für Flugzeuge: United und Honeywell investieren in junges Cleantech-Unternehmen Alder Fuels

Alder wird Verfahren zur Produktion von CO2-armem Rohöl in industriellem Maßstab auf Basis von Biomasse entwickeln – United verpflichtet sich zur Abnahme von 1,5 Milliarden Gallonen SAF – Mit Abstand größte SAF-Order der Luftfahrtbranche

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27 July 20219 September 2021

Analysis Shows Enzyme-Based Plastics Recycling Is More Energy Efficient, Better for Environment

BOTTLE Consortium Effort Develops Model That Finds Sizeable Energy and Carbon-Saving Benefits for Recycling PET, a Common Plastic Used in Bottles, Clothing, Carpet

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5 July 20219 September 2021

Department of Energy Invests $8 Million for Projects to Develop Algae-Based Technologies to Capture Carbon Dioxide for Use in Products

Using algae, the selected projects will develop conversion technologies to decrease emissions, helping to reach the Biden-Harris Administration’s goal of net zero emissions by 2050

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17 June 20219 September 2021

DOE Announces $14.5 Million to Combat Plastics Waste and Pollution

Innovation in plastics recycling technology is a triple win by cutting plastic waste, reducing industrial energy use and emissions, and creating clean manufacturing jobs

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4 June 20219 September 2021

Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner: Carbon capture sequestration technology won’t solve crisis

The majority of carbon dioxide from CCS is used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and there are many economic, social, and environmental problems associated with

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10 May 202118 June 2021

With this new science, plastics could see a second life as biodegradable surfactants

The process has the potential to create more sustainable and economically favorable lifecycles for plastics

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15 April 202118 June 2021

Sustainable criteria for a forest based biorefinery

Practically sustainable means that we take care of at least three constituent parts: environmental, economic and social systems

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4 February 20219 September 2021

Houston company could provide answer to Elon Musk’s $100 million question

Karimi's technology can turn carbon dioxide into 30 different molecules, creating substances useful for Musk’s home and his envisioned developments on Mars

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1 February 20219 September 2021

US DOE Releases Plastics Innovation Challenge Draft Roadmap

The Plastics Innovation Challenge is a comprehensive program to accelerate innovations in energy-efficient plastics recycling technologies, which started in Nov 2019

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19 November 20209 September 2021

NREL recycles biorefinery waste streams to create high-value chemical products

Thermochemical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass is a promising route to produce renewable biofuels and oxygenated biochemicals while enabling the reuse, recovery, and recycling of materials containing carbon

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12 November 20209 November 2020

Flash graphene rocks strategy for plastic waste

Rice University lab detours potential environmental hazard into useful material

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Effiziente Nutzung von Kunststoffabfällen

Labor der Rice University leitet potenzielle Umweltgefahr in nützliches Material um

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11 November 20209 September 2021

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $27 Million in Plastics Recycling Research and Development

All new projects will help improve existing recycling processes that break plastics into chemical building blocks, which can then be used to make new products

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2 November 20201 November 2020

A first-of-its-kind catalyst mimics natural processes to break down plastic and produce valuable new products

While plastics recycling is not new science, current processes don’t make it economically worthwhile

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6 October 20206 October 2020

Multifunctional microbe simplifies processing of plant-derived fuels, chemicals

ORNL researchers got an organism to co-utilize multiple compounds in a single bioreactor, gaining a better understanding of how these different pathways interact

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21 August 202017 August 2020

Carbon-Optimized Bioeconomy: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to ARPA-E’s Carbon Programs

David Babson, Program Director at the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy answers important questions in this illuminating slide guide

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19 August 202015 August 2020

Danimer Scientific Receives U.S. Department of Energy Grant to Support Bioplastic Production

Nearly $5.7 million in support to conduct research and development projects within the biomanufacturing industry

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6 August 20203 August 2020

Agile BioFoundry Selects New Projects to Accelerate Biomanufacturing

Each of the ABF Directed Funding Opportunity awardees will be invited to collaborate with National Lab research facilities to conduct their proposed research

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5 August 20201 August 2020

Dutch agency advises the Netherlands to phase out bioenergy

In its new GAIN report, SER recommends that biomass to be used for the highest value applications possible and comply with clear sustainability requirements

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27 July 202023 July 2020

Tiny Little Shrimp Could Spark Huge Energy Storage Breakthrough

Shrimp (May) Be The Key to Energy Storage That Flows

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16 July 20209 September 2021

Carbon capture and reuse gain steam

US government and European firms invest in CO_₂ capture projects

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30 June 20209 September 2021

$17m for carbon utilisation projects

Each of the selected projects will develop and test technologies that can utilise CO2 from power systems or other industrial sources as the primary feedstock

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18 June 202016 June 2020

Showtime for Photosynthesis

One of nature’s most important chemical reactions is now being captured in a breakthrough “molecular movie”

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16 June 202012 June 2020

LanzaJet Takes Off!

Innovative Sustainable Fuel Technology and Investment Structure to Accelerate Commercialization, Regional Job Growth, and Carbon reduction

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DEM-COM: LanzaJet takes off on non-stop flight to scale

New LanzaTech spin-off launched with investments from Suncor Energy and Mitsui & Co. about $15 million and $10 million, respectively, to establish the new venture

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29 May 202026 May 2020

BD Zones and BDO Zones: Weaponizing Biomass to support a Bio-Fueled Economic Recovery

BD and BDO Zones are shovel-ready, actionable initiatives that unlock billions of dollars of institutional investment into communities with a surplus of biomass, and where employment and bioeconomy development can be closely linked

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28 April 202022 April 2020

BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment

Newly founded BOTTLE Consortium to develop new processes and polymeric materials that are recyclable-by-design

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23 April 202020 April 2020

Research Team Engineers a Better Plastic-Degrading Enzyme

NREL-, University of Portsmouth-scientists discover enzyme which breaks down PET plastics in hours

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Project in Morocco combines hemp and solar to go totally off grid

Spain-based Cannabric ground-breaking eco-building in Morocco combines a hemp construction with a high-tech solar energy system

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17 April 202011 April 2020

Upgrading Biomass with Selective Surface-Modified Catalysts

Scientists have designed a catalyst composed of very low concentrations of platinum  on the surface of titanium dioxide

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25 March 20209 September 2021

Department of Energy Announces $25 Million for Plastics Recycling R&D, Launches Upcycling Consortium

Department ’s Plastics Innovation Challenge is offering a comprehensive program to accelerate innovations in plastics recycling technologies

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DOE offers $25 million for plastics recycling R&D

BETO issued a joint funding opportunity announcement on March titled “BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment.”

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15 January 20209 September 2021

U.S. Department of Energy Announces Nearly $15 Million for Carbon Dioxide Utilization Projects

This FOA seeks applications that propose to develop and test technologies that can utilize carbon dioxide (CO₂)

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19 December 201916 December 2019

Spero Renewables signs $2 million DOE agreement to advance ‘wood-based’ plastic technology

Plastic-made surplus wood shown to be as strong as steel but light weight and more easily recyclable

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12 December 20199 September 2021

Scientists devise catalyst that uses light to turn carbon dioxide to fuel

Researchers find new way to convert carbon dioxide into a usable fuel source.

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3 December 20199 September 2021

SoCalGas and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Announce U.S. Department of Energy Funding of Carbon Capture Project

Companies collaboration aims to advance the development of a process called Integrated CO₂ Capture and Conversion to Methanol (ICCCM)

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11 October 20199 September 2021

Industrial Microbes and Opus 12 Awarded $1M to Turn Waste Gas into Valuable Chemicals

Breakthrough chemistry and biotechnology alliance extends iMicrobes’s ability to combat greenhouse gases

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10 October 201910 October 2019

Levulinic acid and succinic acid – A realistic look at the present and future of two versatile bio-based platform chemicals and their market development

Two new market reports published by nova-Institute shed light on the current and future market situation of these previously acclaimed promising bio-based building blocks

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Lävulinsäure und Bernsteinsäure – Ein realistischer Blick auf zwei vielseitig einsetzbare bio-basierte Plattformchemikalien und ihre Marktentwicklung heute und in Zukunft

Zwei neue Marktreports des nova-Instituts beleuchten die aktuelle und zukünftige Marktsituation dieser vielversprechenden bio-basierten Building-Blocks

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4 October 20191 October 2019

Exclusive: EPA granted full biofuel waivers to refineries despite Energy Department advice – memo

Decision upset the powerful U.S. corn lobby, already angry at the Trump administration’s move in August to grant 31 full exemptions to refineries

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19 September 20199 September 2021

Plastics, fuels and chemical feedstocks from CO2? They’re working on it

SUNCAT researchers discover a way to improve a key step in these conversions, and explore what it would take to turn the climate-changing gas into valuable products on an industrial scale

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4 September 201930 August 2019

DOE funds plant genomics and microbes projects

Most projects are collaborations involving researchers from several institutions; many include one or more DOE national laboratories as partners

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21 August 20199 September 2021

A push from Congress could help advance carbon management tech

Government leadership could help fund early-stage program to use carbon dioxide as a resource for profitable products

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14 May 201913 May 2019

Industry-ready process makes plastics chemical from plant sugars

Affordable, industry-compatible process produces high yields of the versatile chemical HMF

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27 March 201922 March 2019

US Federal Agencies Release Framework for Advancing the Bioeconomy

New Framework to increase government accountability and accelerate innovative and sustainable technologies

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20 March 201915 March 2019

Lygos Awarded Three Innovation Research Grants to Advance Applications for its Portfolio of Sustainable Specialty Biochemicals

Latest funding from DOE, USDA and NSF further validates company’s commitment to replacing toxic petrochemicals, reclaiming local manufacturing and reviving industrial chemical innovation