The company is reported to have falsified documents used to justify a grant of 19.6 million Deutsche marks for exploration of coal liquification technologies in order to defray costs of personnel associated with the Pharma 200 program.

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Natural gas loses some of its carbon advantage over coal when liquified because liquification and refrigeration require energy usually furnished by burning some of the product and LNG is held under such enormous pressures in transport sometimes leaks, contributing a potent greenhouse gas to the atmosphere.

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