PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Oct. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL researchers developed an improved method for gasifying post-consumer plastic and biomass waste to generate clean hydrogen-rich syngas while reducing tar as an undesirable byproduct. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reports that "biomass gasification is a mature technology pathway that uses a controlled process involving heat, steam and oxygen to convert b  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Sgt. Clayton M. Pierce, 41, of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for June 7, 2024. In late 1950, Pierce was a member of D Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was reported killed in action on Dec. 1, 1950, after his unit was e  more