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Harvard team develops cleaner method to separate rare-earth metals using bacteria

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2016

Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a cleaner method to extract rare earth metals. This research was supported by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Office of Naval Research. Processing one ton of rare earths can produce 2,000 tons of toxic waste. —William Bonificio.

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Cleaner Mariner Waste 2016

GE Aviation and the University of Cincinnati collaborate on new research center

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2013

GE Aviation, in collaboration with the University of Cincinnati Research Institute (UCRI), has created the GE Aviation Research Center at the company’s world headquarters in Evendale, Ohio. The scope of this agreement marks a first in Ohio between a leading aerospace company and a leading university research institute.

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Universal Ohio Engine Cleaner

The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

Cars That Think

MARCH 3, 2024

He recently left Samsung to continue his work in the field at Korea University , in Seoul, leading the school’s speech and language processing laboratory. His contributions enabled the company to release its first Google Home product, a smart speaker, in 2016. That was a really rewarding experience,” he says.

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Electric vehicle charging stations worth a complete of quite $1.7 million

Setec Powerr

AUGUST 20, 2021

million is coming to 26 government agencies, universities, and electric utilities in Louisiana. million shares of an almost $3 billion settlement in 2016 between the U.S. Almost half the new buses are fueled by cleaner-burning propane or compressed natural gas; the others are cleaner-burning diesel engines.

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Electric Vehicles Louisiana Charging Grant

DOE to invest $16M in computational design of new materials for alt and renewable energy, electronics and other fields

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AUGUST 17, 2016

The research teams include experts from universities and other national labs. A longtime user of NERSC supercomputers, Louie has a dual appointment as Senior Faculty Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab and Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Chelikowsky, University of Texas, Austin.

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Design Renewable Energy Los Angeles

Chile’s lithium dreams raise water concerns in the desert – ET Auto

Baua Electric

JUNE 6, 2024

As night falls in Chile’s Atacama desert , the world’s driest, a drilling machine extracts brine to measure levels of lithium — a crucial mineral for the global switch to cleaner energy, but harmful in its own way. “They are not mines, they are ecosystems,” she said.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

The 2016 Chevrolet Volt with an electric range of 53 miles [ 2 ] is the first commercial car that almost qualifies as a PHEVLER. from University of California, Davis and years of experience as an agricultural researcher. PHEVLERs running on electricity and biofuel are cleaner than conventional vehicles running on fossil fuels. [

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Clean Cleaning Future Green

Study finds farms a major source of fine-particulate air pollution

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MAY 16, 2016

—lead author Susanne Bauer, Columbia University’s Center for Climate Systems Research and NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. —Fabien Paulot, an atmospheric chemist with Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who was not involved in the study. Tsigaridis, and R.

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Pollution United States Waste Emissions

Large-scale study associates even brief exposure to PM2.5 with childhood lung infections

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APRIL 14, 2018

The research was undertaken by a team from Intermountain Healthcare, Brigham Young University, and the University of Utah. Dr. Horne and colleagues studied 146,397 individuals who were treated for ALRI between 1999 and 2016 at Intermountain Healthcare facilities throughout Utah’s Wasatch Front region.

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Pollution Los Angeles Utah New York

Accelergy Begins Production of Synthetic Jet Fuel from Coal and Biomass; USAF to Evaluate for 100% Synthetic Fuel Use

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MARCH 24, 2010

Following a mandate by the USAF to use 50% of its fuel from cleaner and domestic sources by 2016, Accelergy is the first to provide 100% synthetic fuel that can meet the JP-8 standards. Production from this facility will commence in the 3 rd quarter of this year. Groenewold, Director of the EERC.

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Coal Fuel North Dakota Production

Honeywell UOP opens first facility in China to test flare emissions for VOCs

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OCTOBER 22, 2017

—Professor Xiu Guangli of East China University of Science and Technology. In 2016, the Callidus Technologies business inaugurated a new state-of-the-art facility for the testing of gas combustion flares at its manufacturing facility in Beggs, Okla.

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China Emissions Gas Industrial

Empa recommends buying diesel vehicles only if Euro 6d-TEMP or Euro 6d

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

These will plug the gaps in the existing legislation and will help to ensure that diesel vehicles in particular become considerably cleaner as regards their NO x emissions. At the end of 2016 around 3.1 On 1 September 2017, new emissions regulations for passenger vehicles come into force in the EU and Switzerland.

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Diesel Buy Vehicles Exhaust

Ford Sustainability Report details pilot program in South Africa to deliver health care, education

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JUNE 15, 2016

Early this month, Ford and Techstars Mobility, driven by Detroit introduced its 2016 class of startup businesses that will develop future mobility solutions. million on a state-of-the-art facility at the University of Michigan to boost research and development of advanced battery technology. Investing $4.5 Earlier post.)

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Obama sets goal of reducing US oil imports by 1/3 by 2025; domestic and Western Hemisphere production, natural gas, biofuels, electric vehicles, fleet purchases

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. And we have to do it quickly.

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Obama Oil Gas-Electric Purchase

Study: more stringent O3 and PM2.5 air pollution standards could save thousands of lives, greatly improve public health

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2016

The authors emphasized that their findings do not specifically address an individual’s health risk or the personal benefits of cleaner air, but rather assess population level health impacts. Ewart (2016) “American Thoracic Society and Marron Institute Report. Cromar, Laura A. Gladson, Lars D. Perlmutt, Marya Ghazipura, and Gary W.

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Pollution Standards Ozone EPA

CMU study finds that coal retirement is needed for EVs to reduce air pollution

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. Weis et al.

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Coal Pollution Grid Gasoline-Electric

Dearman begins on-vehicle testing of Gen 2 transport refrigeration system powered by liquid air engine; lighter, more efficient

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Dearman’s Generation 2 system will now be tested with support from HORIBA MIRA, before a commercial, on-road, field trial begins with a UK operator in 2016. We aspire to offer systems which are not only cleaner, but that are also cheaper and perform better than polluting diesel alternatives.

Transportation

Transportation Engine Power Powered

The importance of considering non-exhaust traffic emissions; the role of EVs

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2016

As the trend toward cleaner technologies with reduced exhaust emissions continues through the use of catalytic converters, diesel particulate filters (DPF), and improved fuels and engines, non-exhaust PM will soon surpass exhaust emissions and may well become dominant by 2020 both in terms of emissions and contributions to air quality.

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Exhaust Emissions Belgium Gasoline-Electric

New MOF material has potential to cut costs and make nuclear fuel recycling cleaner

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2016

By working at ambient temperature, the new material has the potential to save energy, make reprocessing cleaner and less expensive. Thallapally (2016) “Metal-Organic Framework with Optimal Adsorption, Separation, and Selectivity towards Xenon”, Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms11831. Debasis Banerjee, Cory M. Simon, Anna M.

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Cleaner Fuel Waste Gas

USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University’s Bulldog Transit System will receive funding to purchase electric buses, charging stations, and other associated equipment. This project will begin to fulfill Mountain Rides' goal of moving from diesel powered buses to cleaner, cheaper, easier to maintain battery electric buses.

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Dearman and Hubbard Products form technology partnership for zero-emission transport refrigeration

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

New ideas create huge opportunities, and the Dearman Hubbard partnership is a chance to create a cost-effective, cleaner and more sustainable environment. Commercial trials of the system will begin in the UK later this year, with extended international trials to begin in 2016. —Pat Maughan, Managing Director of Hubbard Products.

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Transportation Emissions Production Pollution

Mayor of London proposes $1.4B cycling plan for the city; “Crossrail for the bike”

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

Above all, it will fulfill my aim of making London’s air cleaner. Companies, hotels and universities will be encouraged to install docking stations in their premises at their own expense for their staff, guests and students. —Sir Peter Hendy, Transport Commissioner for London.

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London Transportation Grid All-Electric

Berkeley study finds clean vehicle rebates have predominantly benefited wealthy, white Californians

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The distribution of California’s clean vehicle rebates across different socioeconomic groups has been uneven, with higher income groups more likely to receive rebates, according to a new study by a team from the University of California, Berkeley. —Rubin and St-Louis (2016). —Rubin and St-Louis (2016).

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St. Louis Clean Cleaning Vehicles

Study projects global carbon footprint from ICT will be equivalent to half of transportation’s current level by 2040

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

in 2007 to exceed 14% of the 2016-level worldwide GHGE by 2040, accounting for more than half of the current relative contribution of the whole transportation sector, according to a new study from McMaster University in Canada. 2017.12.239.

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Carbon Global 2020 2018

New CE-CERT report finds Cummins Wesport ISL G near-zero gas engine performs with lower NOx than EPA certification standard over range of cycles

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

A report released by the University of California Riverside’s College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT), found that the new 8.9L The engine was certified in the fall of 2016 by the EPA and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to 0.02 to 9 times higher than the NO x certification standard.

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EPA Standards Gas Engine

Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal; RFS2, BCAP, BIWG and Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

And we want to get up 10 commercial demonstration projects, get those up and running by 2016. We’re also going to be talking about some developments we’re making on biofuels, so that more folks can start filling up their cars and trucks with cleaner, American-grown fuels.

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Obama Coal Clean Cleaning

Study suggests GTL-naphtha-gasoline-ethanol blends can function as well as gasoline with lower emissions

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

The GTL Fischer-Tropsch process produces GTL diesel (the cleaner combustion and emissions qualities of which have been well studied), GTL naphtha, GTL kerosene, GTL normal Paraffin and GTL base oils. 2016) “Options for Use of GTL Naphtha as a Blending Component in Oxygenated Gasoline,” SAE Int. 2017.01.042. Rockstroh, T., Floweday, G.,

Gasoline

Gasoline Emissions Fuel 2016

Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy

Broad opposition to EPA, NHTSA proposed freeze of GHG, CAFE regs

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2018

They are also about twice the costs estimated by EPA ($894) and NHTSA ($1,245) in their 2016 Technical Assessment Report. —California Air Resources Board Chair Mary D.

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EV Driven

Harvard team develops cleaner method to separate rare-earth metals using bacteria

GE Aviation and the University of Cincinnati collaborate on new research center

The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

Electric vehicle charging stations worth a complete of quite $1.7 million

DOE to invest $16M in computational design of new materials for alt and renewable energy, electronics and other fields

Chile’s lithium dreams raise water concerns in the desert – ET Auto

PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Study finds farms a major source of fine-particulate air pollution

Large-scale study associates even brief exposure to PM2.5 with childhood lung infections

Accelergy Begins Production of Synthetic Jet Fuel from Coal and Biomass; USAF to Evaluate for 100% Synthetic Fuel Use

Honeywell UOP opens first facility in China to test flare emissions for VOCs

Empa recommends buying diesel vehicles only if Euro 6d-TEMP or Euro 6d

Ford Sustainability Report details pilot program in South Africa to deliver health care, education

Obama sets goal of reducing US oil imports by 1/3 by 2025; domestic and Western Hemisphere production, natural gas, biofuels, electric vehicles, fleet purchases

Study: more stringent O3 and PM2.5 air pollution standards could save thousands of lives, greatly improve public health

CMU study finds that coal retirement is needed for EVs to reduce air pollution

Dearman begins on-vehicle testing of Gen 2 transport refrigeration system powered by liquid air engine; lighter, more efficient

The importance of considering non-exhaust traffic emissions; the role of EVs

New MOF material has potential to cut costs and make nuclear fuel recycling cleaner

USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

Dearman and Hubbard Products form technology partnership for zero-emission transport refrigeration

Mayor of London proposes $1.4B cycling plan for the city; “Crossrail for the bike”

Berkeley study finds clean vehicle rebates have predominantly benefited wealthy, white Californians

Study projects global carbon footprint from ICT will be equivalent to half of transportation’s current level by 2040

New CE-CERT report finds Cummins Wesport ISL G near-zero gas engine performs with lower NOx than EPA certification standard over range of cycles

Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal; RFS2, BCAP, BIWG and Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force

Study suggests GTL-naphtha-gasoline-ethanol blends can function as well as gasoline with lower emissions

Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Broad opposition to EPA, NHTSA proposed freeze of GHG, CAFE regs

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