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Questionable electric-car study, GM biodiesel, WY threatens renewable energy: Today's Car News

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Today, a study on electric-car emissions is based on questionable assumptions, General Motors offers B20 biodiesel capability in several car and truck models, and a Wyoming bill would essentially ban utilities from using renewable energy. agencies concluded that 2016 was the hottest year on record.

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Marathon acquires additional Eagle Ford Shale assets for $3.5B

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Production expected to increase to approximately 80,000 net boe per day by 2016. This and other projects under development serve as a catalyst for Marathon to increase our projected Upstream production growth to 5–7% on a compound average annual growth rate (CAGR) during the period 2010–2016. —Clarence P. Cazalot Jr.,

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Idaho National Laboratory low-energy electrochemical process could eliminate need for steam cracking of hydrocarbons

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A team of Idaho National Laboratory (INL) researchers, with colleagues at Georgia Tech, has pioneered an electrochemical process that could eliminate the need for high-energy steam cracking. Ethylene production is energy-intensive and uses steam-cracking—the most energy-consuming single process in chemical industry.

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