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Twin Rivers (CA) Unified School District receives 10 additional LionC electric school buses

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The buses each have a range of 125 miles and will eliminate on average 230 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year. Twin Rivers was among the first fleets in the United States to put all-electric buses into service when it received its first buses from Lion in 2016. To support these buses, more than $4.5

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Resolution Copper project advances in US permitting; one of largest and deepest copper mines in US

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Rio Tinto’s Resolution Copper project in Arizona has achieved a major permitting milestone with the release of an independently prepared Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the project. The Resolution Copper deposit lies more than a mile beneath the surface. miles across.

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Lion Electric to build US plant in Illinois; largest all-electric medium- and heavy-duty vehicles plant in US

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Over the last decade, Lion has delivered more than 390 all-electric heavy-duty vehicles in North America with more than 7 million miles driven since 2016.

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Kinder Morgan to invest ~$1B on new CO2 system for EOR

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will build and operate a new, 213-mile (343 km), 16-inch diameter pipeline to transport carbon dioxide from the company’s St. Johns source field in Apache County, Arizona, to the Kinder Morgan-operated Cortez Pipeline in Torrance County, NM. It owns an interest in or operates more than 54,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals.

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Lucid Air debuts in New York; completes first high speed stability test at 217 mph

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The 1,000 hp, 400-mile range Lucid Air was first unveiled in December 2016. The Air will be manufactured in Casa Grande, Arizona. The factory, first announced in November 2016, will come online in 2019 and build 10,000 vehicles in the first 12 months. Earlier post.) Deliveries will begin in 2019.

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Ohio State takes first place in DOE/GM EcoCAR 3 competition

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EcoCAR 3 is the latest Energy Department Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition (AVTC) series and challenges 16 North American university teams to redesign a 2016 Chevrolet Camaro to further reduce its environmental impact, while maintaining the performance expected from this iconic American car. The powertrain components included a 2.0-liter

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Sempra unit to construct $1B natural gas pipeline network in Northwestern Mexico; connection to US system

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Sempra International’s Mexican business unit Sempra Mexico has been awarded two contracts by Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Mexico’s state-owned electric utility, to construct, own and operate an approximately 500-mile (820-kilometers), $1-billion pipeline network connecting the Northwestern states of Sonora and Sinaloa.

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