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Illinois company makes finals of Prince William's climate contest and other headlines from the week

Illinois company makes finals of Prince William's climate contest and other headlines from the week

This week we returned to the studio with television interviews at the FOX and ABC affiliates in Detroit to promote the Guild of Art and Artisans’ final art fair of the season. Building on the success of The Earthshot Prize announcement, we also secured additional coverage in The Chicago Tribune and AXIOS. We had a press event in Germany with BASF, and we announced a $3.5M investment in our client, Wave Engine Corp., a next-gen high-performance propulsion sys developer. & aerial vehicles in their second seed round of investment.

Global Media Attention For Technology That Will Change Manufacturing

Global Media Attention For Technology That Will Change Manufacturing

North Coast Strategies is an independent public relations consultancy that secures global media attention for its clients each week. From Mardi Gras and Detroit oldest black-owned restaurants, to a collaboration between Northwestern University, LanzaTech and the Oak Ridge Laboratory, check out the media attention we secured for our clients in just one week.

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Decarbonizing Aviation

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Decarbonizing Aviation

This partnership will utilize carbon capture and sequestration, renewable energy, and other innovative practices to bring lower-cost, low carbon-intensity sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel, and other sustainable hydrocarbons to the global market and help accelerate the decarbonization of various industries, including the tough to decarbonize aviation sector.

Media Clips From This Week

Media Clips From This Week

With COP26 in Glasgow to two product launches in Switzerland and Sweden, it has been another busy week. We are also preparing locally for the final art fair of the season in Michigan and Ford Motor Company announced its collaboration with Fermata Energy and New Lab. From Bloomberg to Emirate Business, here is a sample of the media from this week.

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SAS, Vattenfall, Shell and LanzaTech to explore synthetic sustainable aviation fuel production

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SAS, Vattenfall, Shell and LanzaTech to explore synthetic sustainable aviation fuel production

Vattenfall, SAS, Shell and LanzaTech will together investigate the production of the world’s first synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using the LanzaJetTM “Alcohol to Jet” technology on a large scale in Sweden. Instead of using virgin fossil material in the production process, the synthetic SAF will be produced from fossil free electricity and recycled carbon dioxide from district heating.

​US Secretary of Energy Granholm and US Senator Ossoff Visit LanzaTech Innovation Hub in Georgia and Site of the World’s First LanzaJet Sustainable Fuels Plant

​US Secretary of Energy Granholm and US Senator Ossoff Visit LanzaTech Innovation Hub in Georgia and Site of the World’s First LanzaJet Sustainable Fuels Plant

As the aviation industry calls for the transition to sustainable aviation fuel, more resources will be needed domestically to produce it. US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and US Senator Jon Ossoff toured LanzaTech's Freedom Pines Biorefinery in Soperton, Georgia, last week to highlight the investments the US government is making to achieving the President's climate policy while bolstering American infrastructure, creating jobs in rural America, and leveraging waste gases to produce fuel while keeping carbon underground.

Media Coverage From the Past Week (October 1, 2021)

Media Coverage From the Past Week (October 1, 2021)

We had another busy week working on behalf of our clients. Today, the U.S. Secretary of Energy (and former Governor of Michigan) Jennifer Granholm, along with U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff (D-Georgia) visited LanzaTech and LanzaJet’s biorefinery in Soperton, Georgia. We worked with the Department of Energy and Senator Ossoff’s office to coordinate that visit. This weekend the Guild of Artists and Artisans is hosting their Annual Artoberfest, and we were able to develop content for the Washtenaw Area Apartment Association.

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Potential to Produce 5B Gallons of Sustainable Aviation Fuel from CO2

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Potential to Produce 5B Gallons of Sustainable Aviation Fuel from CO2

The White House set a goal of replacing all jet fuel with sustainable alternatives by 2050, saying it could cut emissions from flying by 20 percent by the end of the decade. To help meet that goal, the Department of Energy (DOE), announced more than $64 million in funding for 22 projects focused on developing technologies and processes that produce low-cost, low-carbon biofuels as part of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge.

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Decarbonization of the Aviation Industry Gains Momentum with the Appointment of the UK's Former Chief Scientific Advisor to LanzaJet's Board

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Decarbonization of the Aviation Industry Gains Momentum with the Appointment of the UK's Former Chief Scientific Advisor to LanzaJet's Board

​LanzaJet Appoints Sir David King, Global Climate Change and Science Leader, to Its Board of Directors, Further Advancing its Focus to Address the Urgent Needs in Decarbonizing Aviation through Sustainable Aviation Fuels