One Energy Department lab has a breakthrough in turning garbage into fuel




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Summary: The nation's supply chain relays on vehicles that burn diesel fuel. Now the Energy Department's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in conjunction with Washington State University, has reached a milestone, in an effort to convert substances known as biocrude into diesel. Here with what's going on, the co-director of the joint Bioproducts Institute and a scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Dr. John Holladay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices