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B. Andrew, Technical Editor Transport fuels from waste gas New Zealand’s LanzaTech has been awarded $4 MM by the US Department of Energy (DoE) to design and plan a 3-MMgpy demonstration-scale facility in the US. The facility will use industrial waste gases to produce low-carbon jet and diesel fuels. The DoE award is part of a total of $12.9 MM of funds announced for six pilot and demonstration-scale bioenergy projects. The facility will make a low-cost ethanol intermediate called Lanzanol from offgases from steel manufacturing. Lanzanol will then be converted to jet fuel through the “alcohol-to-jet” process developed by LanzaTech and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). To dem