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11:03 am
Mon September 24, 2012

Need to Know Rochester: Legal Firms Prepare for Hydraulic Fracturing Decision

Legal firms across New York State are preparing for a decision from Albany regarding hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale formation.   Need to Know Rochester spoke with two attorneys from Nixon Peabody in Rochester.

Hydrofracking
11:16 am
Fri September 14, 2012

In depth hydrofracking coverage from WXXI News and Innovation Trail

Credit Marie Cusick / WMHT

As New York State inches closer to a decision on whether to allow hydrofracking, WXXI News and Innovation Trail is providing ongoing coverage of the hydrofracking debate

Deposit at the Crossroads is an Innovation Trail radio documentary that highlights the economic and environmental struggle southern tier residents face as the State's decision draws near.

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Innovation Trail
2:02 pm
Tue July 31, 2012

Need to Know Rochester: Arunas Chesonis

This week on Need to Know Rochester, we find out what former PAETEC CEO Arunas Chesonis has been up to since selling the company to Windstream a year ago.  We'll have a one-on-one interview with Chesonis, as well as the leaders of several tech startup companies he is supporting.   Chesonis says their ideas -- which include turning ordinary windows into solar panels, and sugar into plastic -- could change the world.  Watch Need to Know Rochester, Friday at 8:30 p.m. on WXXI-TV.

Innovation Trail
11:52 am
Mon November 14, 2011

Epiphergy: How To Turn Leftovers Into Fuel

Rochester, NY – Critics of corn ethanol say it's wasteful at every step. But what if, instead of corn, you could make the biofuel from another American bumper crop: rotten food.

That's the premise on which Epiphergy was founded.

"It's the stuff that's on the salad bar at the end of the day," says Epiphergy founder and CEO Graham Fennie. "You name it, we get it: it could be a dented can of baked beans, it could be moldy onions, we don't really care."

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