WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory announced that it expects to award up to 17 cooperative agreements for the production, transportation, storage and utilization of fossil-based hydrogen with zero or negative carbon emissions. The agency description of the cooperative agreement states: "This FOA will develop technologies to reinvigorate the use of the United States' vast fossil-fuel resources and power infrastructure for net-zero carbon  more ST