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The new engine will be assembled on the flexible production line that was installed in 2012 and will provide increased power, while improving fuel economy and reducing CO 2 emissions. It reopened in late 2011 and added a flexible production line in 2012. FCA US will invest $74.7 million in its Trenton Engine Complex (Mich.)

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

MQL reduces oil mist generation; biological contamination of coolant; waste water volume; costs for capital equipment; and regulatory permitting. Cologne Engine Plant in Germany decreased water use per engine by 50% from 2011 to 2012 by switching to the MQL process. Studies (Faverjon et al. Livonia Transmission Plant (Michigan).

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JUNE 19, 2013

Siemens Metals Technologies and LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, have signed a ten-year co-operation agreement to develop and market integrated environmental solutions for the steel industry worldwide. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 6, 2011

On 9 November 2010, GE announced plans to invest more than $2 billion into its efforts in China through 2012 to help tackle the country’s pressing energy and infrastructure needs. —Darryl Wilson, vice president—aeroderivative gas turbines for GE Power & Water.

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APRIL 16, 2014

This amount represents approximately 0.16% of worldwide CO 2 emissions in the year 2012. Compared with the year 2008, Audi will reduce its fleet CO 2 emissions by 25% by 2016. As the DEKRA experts confirm, the corporate carbon footprint of the Audi Group worldwide amounts to 57 million tons of CO 2 equivalent (CO 2 e) each year.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA), through its Rural Development Biorefinery Assistance Program (Section 9003 of the 2008 Farm Bill), approved a $99-million, 80% loan guarantee to Chemtex International, Inc. The PROESA process delivers cost-effective sugars from non-food biomass for use in bioproducts. Source: Beta Renewables.

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DECEMBER 25, 2009

Ah cell will be mass-produced in fiscal 2012 ending in March 2012. Ah (FY 2012) 4.0Ah (FY 2013). Using this technology, Panasonic aims to develop a 100 W-class portable generator and start field testing in fiscal 2012 ending in March 2012. Earlier post.). Ah cell offers 20% greater capacity than the current 2.9

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AUGUST 21, 2012

In 2008, FedEx Corp. In its fiscal year 2012, FedEx Express increased the size of its advanced alternative-vehicle fleet by 18%, with a total of 364 hybrid-electric vehicles and 118 electric vehicles in service. million pounds of recyclable waste in FY11—an increase of more than 6 million pounds from FY10.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

The Utah Water Quality Board, in a 9-2 vote this week, agreed with the August 2012 recommendations of an administrative law judge (ALJ) upholding a permit-by-rule issued by the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) for the proposed PR Spring an oil sands mine on state land in eastern Utah.

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DECEMBER 2, 2011

UOP will deliver 100 gallons of renewable jet fuel derived from isobutanol to the government in 2012. Honeywell’s UOP has also commercialized the UOP/Eni Ecofining process to produce Honeywell Green Diesel fuel from natural oils and wastes. In 2008, Honeywell’s UOP formed the joint venture Envergent Technologies LLC with Ensyn Corp.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

In 2012, 70% of Estonia’s total primary energy supply (TPES) came from oil shale. In 2012, Estonia mined 15.86 However, the National Development Plan for Oil Shale Use for 2008-15 calls for reducing annual extraction while preserving the country’s strong energy security. of global and 17% of European reserves. million tonnes.

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MAY 8, 2014

The 2014 database covers the period from 2008 to 2013, with the majority of values for the years 2011 and 2012. The 2011 version of the database contains data for 2010 or earlier, and the 2014 version for 2012 or earlier. million people under the age of 60 in 2012. Earlier post.). Emissions Health'

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This aligns with the federal government’s current goal of reducing methane emissions from oil and gas operations by 40–45% below 2012 levels by 2025. The State’s organic waste should be put to beneficial use, such as for soil amendments/compost, electrical generation, transportation fuel, and pipeline-injected renewable natural gas.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

correction for the leap year 2008), global emissions have. reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2012 as a group, partly thanks to large emission reductions from economies in transition in the early nineties and more recent reductions due to the 2008-2009 recession, according to the report. Global CO 2. Source: JRC.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

A range of cellulosic feedstocks used in the demonstration unit, including selected waste agriculture products, pulp, paper, woody biomass, algae and dedicated energy crops like switchgrass and high-biomass sorghum will be provided by Ceres Inc., The facility is projected to start up in 2012. In 2008, UOP received a $1.5

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MARCH 4, 2011

The Range_e also features regenerative braking to capture energy usually wasted in heat energy via the brakes. billion) on environmental technologies and has targeted a 25% reduction in its fleet-average CO 2 emissions between 2008 and 2012. Jaguar Land Rover is committed to spending £800 million (US$1.3

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The Energy Commission’s first investment plan combined $176 million in funds from fiscal years 2008-2009 and 2009-2010. California possesses a significant volume of waste suitable for creating low-carbon fuels—from ethanol and biodiesel to biomethane made from anaerobically digested biomass. $5 million attracted nearly $105.3

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

The supply agreement envisions the supply of two million battery cells as well as the associated parts and services through the end of 2012. ISO/TS16949 is an automotive quality management system based on ISO 9001 and emphasizes defect prevention and reduction of variation and waste at all steps in the design and manufacturing process.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

However, the starting materials, wheat straw, bran and spruce, are found in abundance throughout Europe as waste materials, so it is hoped that the DISCO project will lead to full scale-plants producing biofuels across the continent. million in FP7 funding) began in August 2008, and will conclude in July 2012.

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MAY 26, 2018

Beginning in model year 2008 VW sold about 600,000 2.0- Staff also proposes funding up to $2,500,000 for ferry or tug all-electric engine repowers, including fuel cell technology. $60 The plan will be submitted to the fund trustee before the first actual withdrawal from the trust fund. Background. 87,000 of those cars were sold in California.

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JULY 2, 2010

The PBL calculated that emissions from fossil-fuel combustion (including those from gas flares—the burning of waste gas from oil drilling and other industrial processes, such as the production of cement and ammonia) in the industrial countries have decreased by 7%. However, this decrease is also related to the financial crisis.

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JULY 8, 2012

To develop the new inventory, the team included 22 BC emission sources including both anthropogenic and natural sources (savanna and forest fires), and used emission factor values (EF BC ), references, and the detailed data sources for coke production, open-fire agricultural waste burning, and wildfires.

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JULY 14, 2011

Ten of 14 Honda manufacturing plants in North America are now operating with zero waste to landfill, while the remaining four plants are functioning with “virtually zero” waste to landfill. Zero waste to landfills is a key target in Honda’s “Green Factory” initiative in North America. pounds (28.5

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The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings. Transportation. million zero emission vehicles on its roads by 2025.

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Proposed allocation of 2011-2012 investment plan. The staff of the California Energy Commission has prepared a draft 2011-2012 Investment Plan for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, its third year of program funding. AB 109 (Núñez, Chapter 313, Statutes of 2008), authorizes the Energy Commission to.

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The National Academies have released a third review of the 21 st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP); the review follows the Phase 1 and Phase 2 reviews by the National Research Council in 2008 and 2012 ( earlier post ) and assesses the progress the partnership has made.

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Ed Feo is a partner with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and was voted one of the “Five Most Influential People in Renewable Energy” in 2008 by Euromoney / Institutional Investor. We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” Billion in 2008). Billion vs. $28.3

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JULY 19, 2011

It also is standard on 2011-12 S60 sedans and 2012 model S80 sedans and XC70 wagons. Source: Weigle 2008. Despite a request for delay, the so called “analog sunset” became effective in February 2008. The OnStar systems in those vehicles became obsolete on Feb 18, 2008. Click to enlarge. Alternative routing.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

According to Fredrik Bohlin, a small-scale series production of the hybrids will start in 2012 at the earliest, which is somewhat later than the original plan. Loading and refuse compaction are completely electrically powered by means of a plug-in compactor that is charged via the main electricity grid.

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JULY 11, 2013

Cut off” end of life of vehicle (considered to end just after vehicle shredding including limited disposal of wastes arising). The base case scenario for this study is 2012; future scenario cases considered are for the years 2020 and 2030. Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV). that are modelled in the “Best case 2020” scenarios.

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It’s a daunting task made ever more difficult by the ambitious goal of those action plans - reducing our region’s greenhouse gas emissions 7% below what they were in 1990 - in just the next four years, by 2012. Just as they will continue to do until some historic action still-to-come is taken - if in fact it is taken.

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JUNE 7, 2013

The company demonstrated these vehicles in US operation in 2008, in conjunction with the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC). In 2007, Volvo showcased in Brussels seven commercial vehicles powered by seven different CO 2 -neutral fuels, one of which was DME. Earlier post.) Fleisch, A. 2012.05.012. 2007.06.007.

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The electronic gas pressure regulator has been used in a similar form since 2008 in the larger CNG models from Volkswagen. In Germany, there are currently 911 natural gas refilling stations (as of October 2012). Volkswagen now (he end of 2012) offers six natural gas powered vehicles in various classes: the Caddy 2.0 The eco up!

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“Car scrapping initiatives are often mistakenly labelled as green because they subsidise the purchase of cars that are usually, more fuel-efficient than those they replace, but the schemes are by their nature wasteful and routinely fail to take into consideration the amount of energy required to build a vehicle in the first place.”.

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The original Plan, first released in 2008, was developed on the principle that a balanced mix of strategies is the best way to cut emissions and grow California’s economy in a clean and sustainable direction. Waste Management. AB 32 requires the Scoping Plan to be updated every five years. The focus areas include: Energy. Agriculture.

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To test it out, in 2008 we constructed an apparatus capable of compressing through a volume 100 times that of the starting value, then expanding back again. If compression continues after the reaction happens, it fights against the pressure generated by the reaction, wasting energy. That’s the theory. It put out only 1 kW.

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MAY 19, 2010

A report issued today by the National Research Council recommends that the US set a measurable domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions budget in the range of 170 to 200 gigatons of CO 2 -equivalent (eq) for the period 2012 through 2050. A carbon-pricing system is the most cost-effective way to reduce emissions.

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