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Press ReleasesJanuary 31, 2024Congratulations to the 15 teams advancing as finalists in the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) AlgaePrize 2023–2025 competition! The teams, which include students from high schools, community colleges, and universities from 11 states across the United States and Puerto Rico, will each receive $10,000 in funding to support their research projects over the next 16 months.Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office
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January 24, 2024During a ribbon-cutting ceremony today, LanzaJet unveiled the world’s first ethanol-based alcohol-to-jet sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) commercial production plant in Soperton, GA. With the completion of this plant, LanzaTech, its subsidiary LanzaJet, Inc., and their partners, will optimize the process for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and reduce the cost of producing jet fuel renewable ethanol.Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office
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January 23, 2024Research scientists and graduate students from the University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL) and program managers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service - Savannah River (USFS-SR) recently gathered to explore efforts to expand collaboration between the two organizations that conduct ecological research and natural resource management on the 310-square-mile Savannah River Site (SRS).Office of Environmental Management
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Press ReleasesJanuary 23, 2024Office of Legacy Management ecologists find sensitive plant species at recently transitioned site.Office of Legacy Management
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January 23, 2024The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) opened new funding to small businesses for innovative energy technologies as part of its Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) programs.Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office
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January 18, 2024Piles of cardboard and paper littering America’s landfills represent $4 billion in lost economic value, according to a new analysis by researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office
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Press ReleasesJanuary 16, 2024Join the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office's Chemical Catalysis for Bioenergy Consortium (ChemCatBio) on January 24, 2024, 2–2:45 p.m. ET for a webinar on addressing rigor and reproducibility in heterogeneous catalysis.Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office
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Press ReleasesJanuary 12, 2024The U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced selectees for the 2023 selections for the Waste-to-Energy (WTE) Technical Assistance for Local Governments Program, which will provide assistance for 17 communities in 11 states.Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office
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January 11, 2024Flip-flops, soda bottles, plastics contaminated with pesticides, and countless other types of debris flow from the country's waterways into the ocean. Our plastics problem is so large, we don't have a grasp on the size and scope of the issue—until now.Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office
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January 8, 2024The release of the Vision, Needs, and Proposed Actions for the Data for the Bioeconomy Initiative was announced today, a report on advancing biotechnology; improving U.S. data infrastructure and accessibility; and growing the bioeconomy across the nation’s, energy, biomanufacturing, health, and agricultural sectors.Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office