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Peter Marx, former President of ACT, is now Senior Vice President - AdvancedCombustion Technologies, reporting to John F. Norris Jr., Fuel Tech'sPresident and Chief Executive Officer.Robert (Bob) Pickering and Charles(Chuck) Trippel, also former principals of ACT, are now Vice Presidents ofFuel Tech, reporting to Peter Marx.This newly acquired area of Fuel Tech'sair pollution control (APC) business will enhance the Company's ability toprovide expertise worldwide in the areas of advanced combustion technologies,specifically combustion optimization, low and ultra-low NOx burners andover-fire air systems, and enhanced NOx reduction through the patented HighEnergy Reagent Technology (HERT(TM)) system.In addition, to enhance the sales of all of its combustion and APCtechnologies, Fuel Tech today also announced a reorganization of its U.S. andCanadian sales force.Bill Cummings was promoted to Senior Vice President -Air Pollution Control Sales.Reporting to Bill are Volker Rummenhohl, VicePresident - Catalyst Technologies, and the U.S and Canadian APC sales force. Steve Brady was named Senior Vice President - Fuel Chem Sales.Reporting toSteve are Chris Smyrniotis, Vice President - Fuel Chem Technologies, and theU.S. Norris Jr., as will KevinDougherty, Vice President - Marketing and Business Development.The rest ofthe Fuel Tech officer team organization remains unchanged.About Fuel TechFuel Tech is a leading technology company engaged in the worldwidedevelopment, commercialization and application of state-of-the-art proprietarytechnologies for air pollution control, process optimization, and advancedengineering services.These technologies enable customers to produce bothenergy and processed materials in a cost-effective and environmentallysustainable manner. The Company's nitrogen oxide (NOx) reduction technologies include advancedcombustion modification techniques - such as low NOx burners and overfire airsystems - and post-combustion NOx control approaches, including NOxOUT(R) andHERT(TM) SNCR systems as well as systems that incorporate NOxOUT CASCADE(R),NOxOUT ULTRA(R), Rich Reagent Injection (RRI) and NOxOUT-SCR(R) processes.

The Company's FUEL CHEM(R) technology revolves around the unique applicationof chemicals to improve the efficiency, reliability, fuel flexibility andenvironmental status of combustion units by controlling slagging, fouling,corrosion, opacity and acid plume, as well as the formation of sulfurtrioxide, ammonium bisulfate, particulate matter (PM2.5), carbon dioxide andNOx.This technology, in the form of a customizable FUEL CHEM program, isbeing applied to over 95 combustion units burning a wide variety of fuelsincluding coal, heavy oil, biomass, and municipal waste.A breakdown of thenature of these customer units is posted on the Company's website.The Company also provides a range of combustion optimization services,including airflow testing, coal flow testing and boiler tuning, as well asservices to help optimize selective catalytic reduction system performance,including catalyst management services and ammonia injection grid tuning.Inaddition, flow corrective devices and physical and computational modelingservices are available to optimize flue gas distribution and mixing in bothpower plant and industrial applications.Many of Fuel Tech's products and services rely heavily on the Company'sexceptional Computational Fluid Dynamics modeling capabilities, which areenhanced by internally developed, high-end visualization software.Thesecapabilities, coupled with the Company's innovative technologies andmulti-disciplined team approach, enable Fuel Tech to provide practicalsolutions to some of our customers' most challenging problems. For moreinformation, visit Fuel Tech's web site at press release may contain statements of a forward-looking natureregarding future events. These statements are only predictions and actualevents may differ materially.Please refer to documents that Fuel Tech filesfrom time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a discussionof certain factors that could cause actual results to differ materially fromthose contained in the forward-looking statements.CONTACT:John P GrahamChief Financial Officer(630) 845-4500Tracy H. KrummeVice President, Investor Relations(203) 425-9830SOURCEFuel Tech, Inc.John P.

Graham, Chief Financial Officer, Fuel Tech, 1-630-845-4500, or TracyH. Krumme, Vice President, Investor Relations, Fuel Tech, 1-203-425-9830. Who's Lobbying on Immigration and Why New Report Details Extensive CorporateLobbying for Increased ImmigrationWASHINGTON, Jan. Many of these same corporations that have pressured Congress toprovide them a cheap labor supply have recently been pink-slipping theirexisting workers and seeking federal taxpayer bailouts. The report,Immigration Lobbying: A Window into the World of Special Interests, is thefirst and only study of lobbying on immigration policy and reveals a scope ofinfluence previously unknown.FAIR's Immigration Lobbying report uncovers how in the past three years, 521corporations, trade associations, business groups, labor organizations,government entities, educational institutions, and non-profit groups attemptedto influence key congressional immigration-related legislation.

labor market."This new report demonstrates conclusively that the hallmark of corporateconcern about immigration policy has been to increase their own access tocheap foreign labor," stated Dan Stein, president of FAIR. "Equally evidentfrom this lobbying investigation is that the public interest has been almostentirely absent from efforts to influence the direction of U.S. immigrationpolicy."In the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, many of thesecompanies are simultaneously asking for more cheap foreign labor while layingoff existing U.S workers. "With theexception of a small number of public interest advocacy organizations likeFAIR, nearly every lobbying dollar spent on influencing immigration policy hasbeen focused on bringing cheaper labor to this country, rewarding illegalimmigration, and building ethnic political constituencies."Given the damage that these interests have already inflicted on hard-workingAmerican families, we hope that the incoming Obama administration will restoresome modicum of public interest to this important policy debate," said Stein.The full text of Immigration Lobbying: A Window into the World of SpecialInterests is available at FAIR's website, FAIRFounded in 1979, FAIR is the country's largest and oldest immigration reformgroup.With over 250,000 members nationwide, FAIR fights for immigrationpolicies that serve national interests, not special interests.FAIR believesthat immigration reform must enhance national security, improve the economy,protect jobs, preserve our environment, and establish a rule of law that isrecognized and enforced.SOURCEFAIRBob Dane, 1-202-328-7004, or Ira Mehlman, 1-206-420-7733, both of FAIR. The old adage applies here: Help me to help you.As we sit down to enjoy our Sunday rituals of barbecues, halftime naps, or whatever yours may be while you indulge in a day of football, one thing will always remain constant.Helmet-to-helmet collisions; foreheads hitting knees; the back of skulls exchanging low-fives with the turf; all of these vicious realities that generate immediate cringing will never fade. They waltz hand-in-hand with the guacamole and the Miller Lite at our football gatherings. In that sense, the news coming from Boston is uplifting.According to an Associated Press report, the NFL is joining Boston University brain researchers in the quest to accurately define the long-term effects concussions and other football-induced head trauma has on the lives of players.The researchers at BU want to determine whether or not there are recurring signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in a significant proportion of the players they test. CTE is a condition in the brain resulting from repetitive head trauma and can cause dementia as early as 40.As part of this effort, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello confirmed the league is encouraging current and former players to donate their brains to the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy.I’m in favor of any measures that increase head trauma awareness and work toward the ultimate goal of providing a safer game for the players that we regularly support with tickets and jersey sales, but I hope the NFL is ready to actively lead the movement it is helping launch.Sounds fair, right Well, I’m not entirely convinced.As the NFL has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry, it has become common practice to turn our backs on the single innate impulse that feeds football’s massive audience: violence.We are all guilty We love violence.