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Energy Dept. Awards $6 Billion for Green Steel, Cement and Even Macaroni Factories
“It’s different from the electricity sector, where widely available alternatives to fossil fuels like wind, solar and batteries have come down dramatically in cost,” Morgan Bazilian, a professor of public policy at the Colorado School of Mines, said ....
March 25, 2024
Mining Companies Say They Have a Better Way to Get Underground Lithium, but Skepticism Remains
“The notion that you see on websites for companies is ‘Here comes the brine water and the magic chemical tweezers pull only this out and everything else goes back in the earth,” said Corby Anderson, director of the Kroll Institute For Extractive ....
March 24, 2024
An attempt to ban all "forever chemicals" in Colorado failed. What will it take to finally get rid of PFAS?
“There are critical uses for PFAS that are going to be hard to replace with other chemicals — those will take more time,” said Timm Strathmann, a Colorado School of Mines professor who researches PFAS. “Then there are products where we already have ....
March 17, 2024