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A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

Ammonia is essential to modern agriculture, but making it via the traditional Haber-Bosch process is carbon-intensive and typically requires enormous industrial plants. So, what’s the alternative? Iceland-based Atmonia has spent the past decade developing patented catalysts for a single-step electrochemical process that eliminates the need to first produce and store hydrogen. The company is now focused on cutting energy demand and scaling its technology toward a 40-foot containerized system producing around 150 tons of ammonia a year. AgFunderNews (AFN) caught up with cofounder and CEO Helga Dögg Flosadóttir (HDF) at the World Agri-Tech innovation summit in London to discuss the technical hurdles to scale-up, the economics of decentralized ammonia production, and how Atmonia has funded its tech. AFN: How is Atmonia making green ammonia? HDF: We founded Atmonia in 2016, so we’ve been around for a decade. For a great part of that time, we’ve been engineering and working on developing a catalyst that can produce ammonia in an aqueous electrochemical cell [at ambient temperature and pressure]. This is single-step ammonia production from nitrogen and water so we do not need to produce or store any hydrogen. We also do not need two different systems and have an equilibrium between...

A Wisconsin man is accused of stalking a woman for 13 years and was found with human skulls and a jar containing part of John Wayne Gacy’s brain in his home.

The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on September 21 detained Mark Mabasa, the 40-year old son of slain Philippine journalist Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa, who was shot to death in Metro Manila in October 2022. Mark Mabasa had received death threats in the Philippines following the murder of his father and had sought asylum in the US. Mabasa is being held at the Adelantado ICE processing center in California according to ICE’s website. He is scheduled for a hearing today, according to his uncle, Roy Mabasa, which falls on the eve of the fourth anniversary of Percy Lapid’s killing. The uncle told Human Rights Watch that his nephew went to the US in February 2023 and holds work authorization. Mark is a musician and performed in a show in Chicago earlier in September and was detained by ICE after he returned home to Los Angeles. The Philippine consulate in Los Angeles has carried out a welfare visit to check on Mark at the request of his family. The Philippine Ambassador to the United States, Jose Manuel Romualdez, told Human Rights Watch that the consulate is coordinating with the lawyers of the Mabasa family. The man allegedly responsible for...

Regulators race to reassure the crypto industry as the industry’s flagship legislation collapses, SBF tries his luck with the Supreme Court, and crypto PACs unleash $30 million against Sherrod Brown

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Friday night saw Minnesota Gopher soccer took a huge victory over the winless Terrapins

Geoscience Australia reported the quake just after 2am with an epicentre near the south Gippsland town of Korumburra.

In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The NFL suspended San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York for six games Friday following his arrest earlier this year in a prostitut…

The lettuce grower told state regulators in August that it planned to permanently close its facility Oct. 4 and lay off nearly 100 employees, but in a new filing with the state this week, the company ...

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