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US new light-duty diesel sales dropped slightly in 2016 to 280,000 units from 300,000 in 2015

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The US added more than 280,000 new diesel passenger vehicles across the country in 2016, with Texas, California and Florida having the highest numbers of diesel vehicles, according to a Diesel Technology Forum analysis of the latest Vehicles in Operation (VIO) data compiled by IHS Automotive (December 2016).

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NSF awarding $81M to 16 sites for new National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI)

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Through a fiscal year 2016 competition, one of the newly awarded sites will be chosen to coordinate the facilities. Montana Nanotechnology Facility, Montana State University with partner Carlton College, PI: David Dickensheets. Nine of the sites have at least one regional partner institution.

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IHS Markit: average age of cars and light trucks in US rises again in 2019 to 11.8 years

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growth in 2016. The state of Montana has the oldest average age with light vehicles averaging 16.6 Light vehicles in operation in the US have now reached a record level of more than 278 million according to the analysis—an increase of more than 5.9 million (2.2%) since 2018. —Mark Seng.

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Final Project Agreements Signed for Many Stars 50,000 Barrel per Day CTL Project

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Expected to be operational in 2016, the project will convert 38,000 tons per day of Montana coal into 50,000 barrels per day (bpd) of synthetic diesel, jet fuel and naphtha. Announced in August 2008, Many Stars CTL is an energy development project led by AAEC in collaboration with the Crow Nation.

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Researchers find magnetite nanoparticles similar to those from traffic pollution in brain; possible link with Alzheimer’s

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2016) “Magnetite pollution nanoparticles in the human brain” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Rajkumar (2016) “Magnetic properties of air suspended particles in thirty eight cities from south India,” Atmospheric Pollution Research , Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 626-637 doi: 10.1016/j.apr.2016.02.008. India study.

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US vehicle miles travelled up 3% in first 9 months of 2016 to 2.4 trillion miles

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trillion miles in the first nine months of 2016, an increase of 3.0% billion miles were driven in September 2016 alone—a 2.4% increase compared with August 2016. billion miles were driven in September 2016 alone—a 2.4% increase compared with August 2016. US driving topped 2.4 billion miles.

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Study identifies Bakken Formation alone as responsible for ~2% of global ethane emissions

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The Bakken Formation, a shale oil and gas field in North Dakota and Montana, is emitting roughly 2% (about 250,000 tons per year) of the globe’s ethane, according to new study led by researchers at the University of Michigan. The paper appears in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The research was funded primarily by NOAA and NASA.

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