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Cool Planet Energy Systems to move HQ, factory to Denver area

The Mile High City beat out Houston for the startup's home office. Ed Sealover | Denver Business Journal Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper talks with Cool Planet Energy Systems CEO Howard Janzen at...

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Cool Planet picks Colorado as home state

Cool Planet Energy Systems confirmed Wednesday that it will relocate its headquarters to Colorado and build a manufacturing plant that could help convert the state's numerous dead trees into gasoline....

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Company plans to make fuel out of beetle-killed trees in Colorado

DENVER — A company is moving to Colorado that says...

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Cool Planet alternative fuels company picks Colorado as home state

Cool Planet Chief Financial Officer Barry Rowan, left, Cool Planet CEO Howard Janzen, center, and Gov. John Hickenlooper laugh after announcing the company's plans Wednesday to move to Colorado. Cool...

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Biofuels firm holds promise of regional jobs

Remember when Christopher Lloyd in the “Back to the Future” movies used garbage to fuel the time circuits in his flying DeLorean? Well, a company that is moving to Colorado can do just that. No, the...

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Cool Planet Moves Forward with Commercial Plant in Louisiana, Names URS...

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cool Planet Energy Systems, a developer of small-scale bio-refineries for the conversion of non-food biomass into biofuels and soil enhancing biochar, today...

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Colorado biofuel company raises a cool $71 million in new funding

Greg Avery Reporter- Denver Business Journal Email | Google+ | Twitter | Blog Cool Planet Energy Systems Inc. raised another $71.6 million in equity funding weeks after it broke ground on the company’s...

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Beetles hit Colorado’s native trees

By By Kim NguyenThe Durango Herald VAIL - The mountain views along Red Stone Road suggest early autumn, with splashes of red, orange and a rusty brown dotting the green hillsides above the homes and...

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Bark beetle infestation grows in Colorado, Wyoming

DENVER (Reuters) – Tree-killing bark beetles decimated 550,000 acres of forests in Colorado and Wyoming last year, bringing the total area ravaged by the insects in both states to 4 million acres since...

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Mountain View company's dead-tree-to-fuel process to be tested

Associated PressPosted: 04/27/2010 11:08:01 AM PDTUpdated: 04/27/2010 11:08:02 AM PDT FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Colorado State University...

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Pine trees on Colorado's Front Range resisting pine beetle invasion

The mountain pine beetle has spread to Colorado's Front Range cities, but forestry experts and city arborists do not expect losses on the scale seen in Rocky Mountain forests. "They are scattered all...

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Colorado biofuel company breaks ground on 1st Louisiana refinery

Cathy Proctor Reporter- Denver Business Journal Email | Facebook | Twitter Cool Planet Energy Systems Inc., a biofuel company, broke ground on the company's first commercial facility — dubbed Project...

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Researchers Study Beetle-Killed Trees as a Sustainable Biofuel (University of...

(Source: University of Wyoming) Researchers Study Beetle-Killed Trees as a Sustainable Biofuel November 6, 2013 - Millions of acres of beetle-killed trees in the Rocky Mountains could possibly be...

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Ski town weighs turning beetle-kill trees to fuel

Comments BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. (Map, News) - A Colorado company is proposing a plant in Breckenridge that would capitalize on the bark beetle infestation by turning the dead lodgepole pine trees into...

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Colo. company turns beetle infested wood into fuel

DENVER — A tiny middle school tucked in a snow-covered mountain valley ditched its decades-old coal-fired boilers for a wood pellet furnace, partly due to a beetle not much bigger than an eyelash....

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Colo.'s Beetle-Killed Pine Trees Are Finding A Second Life In Energy,...

Whether used for heat, electricity, or construction the trees in the nearly 3 million acres of Colorado forest that have been rocked by the mountain pine bark beetle are proving to be a valuable...

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Steamboat firm to increase production from beetle-killed trees

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS —It's been about two years since Trent Jones first considered bringing to market an erosion-control product made from beetle-killed trees. The bales of wood...

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Stonebridge Companies, A Leading Colorado Hotel Management And Development...

Denver Hotel Management & Development Company Uses Hotel Locations To Raise Money For The Aurora Victim Relief Fund Denver, Colorado (PRWEB) July 25, 2012 Stonebridge Companies, a Denver Colorado...

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UM Shares $10 Million USDA Grant to Convert Beetle-Killed Trees into Biofuel...

(Source: The University of Montana) Contact: James Burchfield, dean, UM College of Forestry and Conservation, 406-243-5521, james.burchfield@umontana.edu . UM Shares $10 Million USDA Grant to Convert...

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2001-02 drought fueled pine-beetle outbreak in Colorado

Larimer County Youth Conservation Corps crew leader Tom Pryor prepares to fell a large dead tree last summer as part of tree-thinning and fire-mitigation work in and around Brainard Lake near Ward....

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Crews clear beetle-killed trees from near 72 miles of Colorado roads

Crews have started clearing beetle-killed trees along 72 miles of Colorado roads because the weakened trees could fall without warning. The Colorado Department of Transportation and the U.S. Forest...

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Beetle-Kill Trees Pose Increasing Risk to Recreationists, Landowners...

(Source: Colorado State University System) For Immediate Release Wednesday, June 26, 2013 Contact for Reporters: Jennifer Dimas 970.491.1543 Jennifer.Dimas@ColoState.EDU Send Email To: * Your entry is...

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IP5280 Launches Tree Replanting Initiative in Wake of Colorado Pine Beetle...

ENGLEWOOD, CO--(Marketwire - January 30, 2008) - IP5280 Communications, Colorado's business VoIP leader, announced today that for each new business that becomes a customer in 2008, the company will...

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Colo school tests fuel made from beetle-kill trees

The Associated Press thefresnobee_994:/2010/04/27/1911985/colo-school-tests-fuel-made-from.html E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name tool goes here Comments (0) | Similar stories: 2 dead in Sacramento...

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Cobalt Technologies is First to Create Renewable Biobutanol Fuel From...

Company Partners with Colorado State University for Engine Fuel Testing...

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Breckenridge weighs turning beetle-kill trees to fuel

BRECKENRIDGE, Colo.—A Colorado company is proposing a plant in Breckenridge that would capitalize on the bark beetle infestation by turning the dead lodgepole pine trees into wood pellets....

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Project to make use of beetle-infested trees in Colorado

VAIL, Colo. (Map, News) - The U.S. Forest Service has approved a project in the Vail area to help stem the spread of bark beetles and make use of trees killed by the bugs. The plan is to salvage 1,763...

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Sen. Udall seeks money to mitigate wildfire threat of trees killed by bark...

DENVER (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mark Udall is urging federal officials to fund efforts to mitigate the effects of bark beetles in Colorado and other Western states. Bark...

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Wood pellet producers turn scourge of tree-killing beetles into a profit and...

DENVER (AP) — A tiny middle school tucked in a snow-covered mountain valley ditched its decades-old coal-fired boilers for a wood pellet furnace, partly due to a beetle not much bigger than an eyelash....

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Colorado deploys tiny wasps from China to fight tree-killing beetles

Experiment to eradicate ash borers pits one invasive species against another BOULDER — Colorado is deploying tiny predator wasps imported from China — 200 a week through mid-July — in a...

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Beetle Kill Trees Overwhelm Colorado Forests, Lumber Mills Unable To Respond

What would you do with more than 150,000 piles of dead trees? The Forest Service Is struggling with that exact question as federal contractors beef up their removal of beetle-kill trees in Colorado,...

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USDA Invests in Research to Convert Beetle-Killed Trees into Renewable Energy...

(Source: President of the United States) WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2013 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced it has awarded nearly $10 million to a consortium of academic, industry and...

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USDA Announces Cool Planet and the Bioenergy Alliance Network of the Rockies...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cool Planet Energy Systems, a developer of small scale bio-refineries for the conversion of non-food biomass into biofuels and soil enhancing biochar, as a member of the...

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USDA Invests in Research to Convert Beetle-Killed Trees into Renewable Energy...

(Source: USDA - United States Department of Agriculture) USDA Invests in Research to Convert Beetle-Killed Trees into Renewable Energy Media Contact: Jennifer Martin, (202) 720-8188 WASHINGTON, Nov. 6,...

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UI Researchers, Partners Receive USDA Grant to Convert Beetle-Killed Trees...

(Source: University of Idaho) UI Researchers, Partners Receive USDA Grant to Convert Beetle-Killed Trees into Biofuel Wednesday, November 6 MOSCOW, Idaho - Nov. 6, 2013 - The U.S. Department of...

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Cool Planet makes big investment in renewable gasoline, but not in Colorado

Cathy Proctor Reporter- Denver Business Journal Email | Facebook | Twitter Cool Planet Energy Systems, which announced plans to make the Denver-area its headquarters in July, will invest $168 million...

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Cool Planet Energy's fundraising tops $60 million for biorefinery company

Cathy Proctor Reporter- Denver Business Journal Email | Facebook | Twitter Cool Planet Energy Systems, which builds small-scale biorefineries for fuel production, announced Tuesday the company has...

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Colorado to offer $3.1 million in tax credits for Cool Planet HQ

Cool Planet Energy Systems took a step closer Friday to a corporate relocation and expansion that could bring nearly 400 jobs to the metro area and place the state at the center of a biofuel...

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Cool Planet considers move to Colorado

Ed Sealover, Denver Business Journal Biofuel company Cool Planet Energy Systems, may relocate its headquarters from Camarillo to the Denver area and open a manufacturing plant there. The move could...

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Feds launch CSU-run research into tapping forests for liquid fuel

The federal government is launching a $10 million, five-year project to tap overgrown and beetle-ravaged Western U.S. forests as a new source of non-oil liquid fuel that could power cars, warships and...

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Cool Planet chooses Colorado for headquarters

DENVER — A company that has developed a process for converting beetle-killed trees and corn cobs into gasoline says it plans to open its global...

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Colorado State University tests California company's fuel made from...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Colorado State University is getting ready to test a California company's technology that converts trees killed by bark beetles into fuel...

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USDA Grant Aims to Convert Beetle-Killed Trees into Biofuel (Colorado State...

(Source: Colorado State University System) For Immediate Release Wednesday, November 06, 2013 Contact for Reporters: Jennifer Dimas 970.491.1543 Jennifer.Dimas@ColoState.EDU Send Email To: * Your entry...

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California biofuel company considers move to Colorado

Cool Planet Energy Systems logo Reporter- Denver Business Journal | | | Cool Planet Energy Systems, a California biofuel company, may relocate its headquarters to the Denver area and open a...

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