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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Ecology is also a large transporter of bulk waste and recycling materials, moving millions of pounds to disposal or recycling facilities every year. Neste MY Renewable Diesel is a low-carbon fuel produced from 100% renewable and sustainable raw materials, primarily wastes and residues. million tonnes of CO 2 in 2017.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Despite reports that global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas, HFC-23, were almost eliminated in 2017, an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has found atmospheric levels growing at record values. As a result, they reported that they had almost completely eliminated HFC-23 emissions by 2017.

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MARCH 7, 2018

In 2017, engineers from Achates presented a paper (2017-01-0638) at the SAE World Congress (WCX 17) describing the development of a 55% brake thermal efficiency (BTE) commercial heavy-duty opposed-piston engine without the use of a waste heat recovery system or turbocompounding. Earlier post.). Zermeno, R.,

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MAY 16, 2016

The Globe and Mail obtained a copy of the currently confidential 57-page Climate Change Action Plan, which lays out a strategy from 2017 to 2021. The government will also oblige natural gas to contain more renewable content, such as gas from agriculture and waste products.

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JULY 2, 2018

Andreas Scheuer, German Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, announced the award of around €50 million (US$58 million) in funding for 31 municipal electric mobility projects under the “Clean Air 2017-2020 emergency program”. We are continuing to press ahead with climate-friendly mobility. —Andreas Scheuer.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

million) to a non-profit organization Bioénergie La Tuque (BELT) under a program called Technoclimat from Transition Énergétique Québec (TEQ) for a project to develop and demonstrate the potential of producing advanced biofuels from locally-sourced forestry waste in La Tuque, Quebec, Canada.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

An increase in natural gas generation offset some of the climate gains from this coal decline, but overall power sector emissions still decreased by almost 10%. That’s higher than the 3% gain in 2018, but lower than the 13% gains posted in 2016 and 2017. This decline was due almost entirely to a drop in coal consumption. year-on-year.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a revised draft of California’s proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Strategy. SLCPs may account for an estimated 40% of global warming, increasing the impacts of climate change. —“Revised Proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy”.

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JULY 29, 2015

Neste, Renewable Energy Group (REG) and Solazyme will supply renewable diesel to UPS to help facilitate the company’s shift to move more than 12% of its purchased ground fuel from conventional diesel and gasoline fuel to alternative fuels by the end of 2017. White House climate pledge. In 2014, we achieved a 14.1%

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JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. Short-lived climate pollutants. 50% clean power target.

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JANUARY 21, 2017

These include cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars and zero emission vehicles, low-carbon fuels, renewable energy, waste diversion from landfills, water conservation, improvements to energy efficiency in homes and businesses, and a Cap-and-Trade Program. Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Reduction Strategy. To date, a total of $3.4

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Redwood Materials, a battery and e-waste recycling venture from former Tesla executive J.B. In 2017, JB Straubel founded Redwood Materials to work on the recycling processes of lithium-ion batteries and electronic waste materials. Tesla also manufactures electric motors for the Model 3 in the Nevada Gigafactory.

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DECEMBER 21, 2015

The company has a goal of driving one billion miles with its alternative fuels fleet—known as the Rolling Laboratory—by the end of 2017. RNG can be derived from many abundant and renewable sources, including decomposing organic waste in landfills, wastewater treatment and agriculture.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

The California Energy Commission approved a first-in-the-nation energy efficiency standard that will reduce wasted energy by battery chargers commonly used to power cell phones, laptop computers, power tools, and other devices. Energy consumed to charge batteries is increasing in California. Industrial charger compliance (e.g.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

California will meet its 2030 climate targets more than three decades late, in 2061, and could be more than 100 years late in meeting its 2050 target if the average rate of emissions reductions from the past year hold steady, according to a new study tracking more than a decade of environmental and economic indicators in the state.

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APRIL 2, 2018

It would be wasteful to discard those consumer savings, but EPA now appears poised to do just that.”. As part of the 2012 rulemaking establishing the model year 2017-2025 light-duty vehicle GHG standards, EPA made a regulatory commitment to conduct a MTE of the standards for MY 2022-2025 no later than 1 April 2018. Background.

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JULY 7, 2014

The collaboration will leverage IBM technologies such as cognitive computing, optical sensors and the internet of things all based on a Big Data and analytics platform and drawing on IBM’s deep experience in weather prediction and climate modeling. It now has an opportunity to lead the world in sustainable energy and environmental management.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

This is to stimulate the development of alternative, second-generation biofuels from non-food feedstock, such as waste or straw, which emit substantially less greenhouse gases than fossil fuels and do not directly interfere with global food production. For biofuels to help us combat climate change, we must use truly sustainable biofuels.

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MAY 1, 2015

Member states must enact the legislation by 2017. EU member states will have to set a national target, no later than 18 months after the EU directive enters into force, for the share of advanced biofuels, e.g. those sourced from certain types of waste and residues and new sources such as seaweed, in total transport consumption.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Technical targets in the Blueprint fall into four areas: battery R&D; electric drive system R&D; vehicle lightweighting; and advanced climate control technologies. Climate control technologies. Another approach to cabin pre-conditioning is to utilize waste heat generated within the battery and/or charging circuit during charging.

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APRIL 23, 2019

CARB has awarded $41 million dollars to the Port of Los Angeles for the ZANZEFF project as part of California Climate Investments, a California initiative that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy and improving public health and the environment?particularly

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MARCH 7, 2017

Audi has introduced the natural-gas-fueled A4 Avant g-tron; dealers in Europe will begin taking orders for the midsize model starting in early summer 2017. mi)—that equates to fuel costs of only about €4 (US$4.23) (as of: March 2017). In the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC), the Audi A4 Avant g-tron with S tronic uses just 3.8

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MARCH 2, 2018

Adopting the belt filter press reduces the need for dredging the solid waste from the bottom of POME ponds, which currently has to be done every five to seven years and requires operation shutdowns. This spring, Neste will publish comprehensive information about its palm oil supply chain in 2017. —Annamari Enström.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

We need to go back to November 2017, to the start of the ‘Prius Revolution’ in the family. I’ve never seen climate controls in any other car that were placed on the steering wheel for easy control. Yes, the climate control is also electric, making it also working when the 1.5 How did it all start? Very practical.

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APRIL 26, 2018

The Association was established in October 2017 to promote the commercialization of a low-carbon hydrogen supply chain and to bridge entities including industry, academia, and government throughout the prefecture in order to achieve this. Background.

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APRIL 18, 2017

There are already about 150,000 charging stations in the country, with another 100,000 due to come on stream by the end of 2017. All charging and climate control functions can be controlled remotely with this app. That applies as much to the infrastructure and financial support as it does to sales.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings. Transportation. —Draft Scoping Plan Update. Vehicle technology.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2019

announced its next environmental sustainability strategy—PLANET 2050—which includes science-based goals that meet or exceed the goals in the United Nations Paris agreement on climate change. Generate 25% less waste in facilities and operations as a percent of revenue. Cummins Inc.

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JULY 11, 2012

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed CAFE standards for model years 2017-2025 ( Earlier post.) For this reason, NHTSA’s proposal is limited to setting standards for MYs 2017–2021. mpg US (5.87 L/100km) in model year 2021, and 49.6

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

between 2017 and 2021, as a combination of higher oil prices, emerging mandate. Waste-to-fuels shows promise as near-term success story, shoring up confidence in. Pike projects that by 2021, the production of biofuels derived from a range of feedstocks will reach 65.7 compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2011 and 2021.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

The Scoping Plan describes the comprehensive range of efforts California must take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and meet the state’s long-term goals to combat climate change. What steps must California now take to meet the state’s climate goals beyond 2020? Waste Management. per year from 2017–2025.

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JULY 17, 2017

Failing to take the changing energy requirements of oilfields into account can cause oilfield managers or policymakers to underestimate the true climate impacts, Stanford scientists warn. Current climate and energy system models typically don’t explore the impacts of oil reservoir depletion in any detail. Masnadi & Brandt (2017).

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JULY 9, 2022

No doubt professor Zadeh’s enthusiasm for fuzziness has been reinforced by the prevailing political climate in the United States—one of unprecedented permissiveness,” said R. Editor’s note: Lotfi Zadeh died in 2017 at the age of 96. Another berated the theory’s scientific laxity. “No Kalman in 1972. Lotfi Zadeh.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The two bills amend the budget act to include the 2017 Greenhouse Gas Revenue Expenditure Plan which reflects the broad portfolio of investments intended to complement the policy work of AB 398 (Eduardo Garcia), Chapter 135, Statutes of 2017, and AB 617(Cristina Garcia), Chapter 136, Statutes of 2017. billion of GGRF and $78.3

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MAY 9, 2013

Funding priorities through the ARFVT Program support fuel and vehicle development to help attain the state’s climate change policies. An estimated 68 stations are needed to support the anticipated rollout of these vehicles in 2015-2017. million ZEVs on the state’s roads. 20 million for hydrogen fueling infrastructure.

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The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. Second, while hydrogen can be otherwise produced through the electrolysis of water, this process requires huge amounts of clean and fresh water – a vital and highly valuable commodity of life that can’t be wasted.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

We need to be talking about trillions per year if we are to meet climate goals. This was the second-highest annual figure ever (after 2017’s $313.3 Biomass and waste-to-energy financings were down 3% at $10 billion. —Albert Cheung, head of analysis at BNEF. billion (up 67%), with China at $134.8 billion (down 11%).

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