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Featured News: Bioenergy Community Connections
The U.S. Department of Energy tapped NREL to support a new $15 million research effort to improve the measurement, reporting, and verification of carbon dioxide removal technologies.
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West Gate's Third Cohort Most Diverse Set of Technologies Yet
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30-Year Friendship Finds a Research Home Through Department of Energy's Visiting Faculty Program
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