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SUPERVALU unveils new natural gas powered truck fleet and fill station

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has purchased 35 Class 8 Volvo trucks that operate on compressed natural gas (CNG). distribution center and currently serves approximately 500 grocery stores in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Washington, D.C. SUPERVALU INC. The fleet, which operates out of SUPERVALU’s Mechanicsville, Va., and Baltimore.

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Study estimates ~4M children worldwide develop asthma each year because of NO2 air pollution

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About 4 million children worldwide develop asthma each year because of inhaling nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) air pollution, according to an open-access study published in The Lancet Planetary Health by researchers at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH). —Susan Anenberg.

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WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

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Researchers at Washington University in St. Bai worked as a research assistant in the Bose lab in Arts & Sciences from 2015-2020. The form of the microbe they built was unable to grow when nitrogen gas was its only nitrogen source. Louis have discovered a new way to train microbes to make n -butanol.

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ICCT: available low-carbon fuels can reduce CI of on-road transportation fuels in Pacific Coast region by 14%–21% by 2030

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Fuel carbon intensity reduction from 2015-2030 from fuel deployment scenarios for the Pacific Coast region. The study presents eight scenarios for low-carbon fuel supply, including varying amounts of electricity, hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel, renewable diesel, next generation cellulosic biofuel, and natural gas. Source: ICCT.

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Eaton to supply EV charging stations to federal EV Pilot Program

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The vehicles will be in five cities: Washington; Detroit; and Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco, Calif. The 116 electric plug-in vehicles being deployed in the pilot are expected to annually save almost 29,000 gallons of gas, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 257 metric tons, and save taxpayers almost $116,000 in fuel costs.

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US average retail gasoline prices ended 2017 lower than they started

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However, a rapid price decline beginning in October led to US average regular gasoline prices ending the year lower than they began for the first time since 2015, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). US regular retail gasoline prices averaged $2.72 gal at least once in 2018.

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Oregon Governor signs Clean Fuels bill

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The bill removes the 31 December 2015 sunset on the statutes requiring the adoption of clean fuel standards. In January, 2015 the Commission completed Phase 2 of the rulemaking process requiring suppliers and importers to reduce the average carbon intensity of the fuels they provide to meet the annual clean fuel standards.

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