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New Mexico to enact advanced Clean Car & Clean Truck rules

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New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that the state will move to adopt the Advanced Clean Cars and Advanced Clean Trucks rules, which will set annual targets for the sale of new zero emission cars and trucks in New Mexico over time.

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New Mexico Hits the Gas on Cleaner Cars

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By Kathy Harris & Noah Long New Mexicans will now be able to buy cleaner, zero-emission vehicles in the state, thanks to Advanced Clean Cars (ACC) standards unanimously adopted by the Joint Albuquerque New Mexico Environmental Improvement and Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Boards (“Boards”).

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UPS makes largest purchase of renewable natural gas yet in the US: 170M gallon equivalents over 7 years

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UPS announced an agreement with Clean Energy Fuels Corp. to purchase 170 million gallon equivalents of renewable natural gas (RNG) through 2026. Renewable natural gas, produced naturally from bio sources such as landfills and dairy farms, not only turns trash to gas, but it turns it into clean gas.

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Alliance AutoGas launches 5300-mile, 12-city Coast-to-Coast Clean Air Ride with converted F-150

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Supported by partners, Clean City Coalitions and corporate sponsors, Alliance AutoGas is embarking on a 5300+ mile, 12-city, cross-country road trip—the Alliance AutoGas Coast-to-Coast Clean Air Ride —with its record-setting propane autogas F-150. The propane mower is a 2013 Exmark Lazer Z Ultra Cut 60.

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New recycling solution introduced to treat Marcellus Shale flowback frac water

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Albuquerque, NM, is seeking to provide a solution to the environmental issues surrounding the treatment of mineral?laden Brackish, salty water produced from drilling for natural gas. Services, LLC,” or “CARES,” will recycle brackish oilfield and natural gas wastewater into clean distilled water for future use by the industry.

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

Cars That Think

Or, solar thermal can directly provide heat for industrial processes to make steel, cement, and chemicals—all energy-intensive sectors that are difficult to clean up. The first utility-scale solar-thermal plants were built in the 1980s. Dubai, United Arab Emirates The massive US $4.4

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

Cars That Think

Or, solar thermal can directly provide heat for industrial processes to make steel, cement, and chemicals—all energy-intensive sectors that are difficult to clean up. The first utility-scale solar-thermal plants were built in the 1980s. Dubai, United Arab Emirates The massive US $4.4