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Poet partners with FBN on lower-carbon farming

Poet has formed a partnership with Farmers Business Network to boost profits for farmers while promoting sustainable agricultural practices.

The partnership will leverage FBN’s GRO Network, which matches farmers who use environmentally friendly practices with buyers who pay a premium for lowcarbon corn. The program measures the benefits of conservation practices used by farmers on their land. This results in farmlevel carbon-intensity scores that support low-carbon fuels. “At Poet we know that agriculture is the key to combating climate change, and we want to support farmers who share our mission to be good stewards of the Earth by using environmentally friendly practic

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es,” said Poet Founder and CEO Jeff Broin. “We are excited about the potential of the GRO Network to promote sustainable agriculture and utilize the resulting low-carbon corn to produce even greener bioethanol and bioproducts.”

ClearFlame wins $1.1 million DOE grant

ClearFlame Engine Technologies has ables low-carbon fuels such as ethanol to be been awarded a two-year, $1.1 million Phase integrated into existing diesel engine platII grant from the U.S. Department of Enforms. ergy’s Small Business Innovation Research “The results we achieved in Phase I chief technology officer and co-founder of program. The funding will support the of the DOE SBIR program successfully ClearFlame. “During Phase II, we’ll focus company’s development of clean engine demonstrated the methodology and experion additional validation through our coltechnology for the heavy-duty truck, offmental process for optimizing a diesel-style laboration with Argonne National Laborahighway and industrial markets. engine to be more efficient using decartory and the University of Illinois Urbana

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