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EU Innovation Fund grants €108M to RWE’s waste-to-hydrogen project FUREC

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RWE's FUREC project, which aims to produce circular and green hydrogen from non-recyclable municipal solid waste in Limburg, the Netherlands, received a €108-million grant from the EU’s Innovation Fund. For comparison: This is equivalent to the output of a 700-megawatt offshore wind farm with coupled electrolyzers. textiles, paper).

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Business Finland awards Keliber €7M to improve environmental protection in lithium hydroxide production

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Business Finland has granted Keliber Technology Oy, a Finnish mining and battery chemical company that aims to start the sustainable production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide utilizing its own ore, investment funding of a maximum of €7 million. The project is part of the Smart Mobility and Batteries from Finland programme.

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ABB E-mobility opens its largest DC fast charger production facility in Italy

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ABB E-mobility employs more than 350 R&D experts globally and has a portfolio of more than 350 granted patents. The Valdarno facility also aims to achieve gold level LEED certification—the globally recognized independent standard for the design, construction and operation of eco-friendly buildings.

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UPM to build biorefinery to produce biofuels from crude tall oil

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Finland-based UPM, one of the world’s leading forest products groups, will build a hydrotreatment biorefinery producing biofuels from crude tall oil in Lappeenranta, Finland. UPM has not applied for a public investment grant for the project. UPM will assess its other biorefinery plans after the EU has decided on its investment grants.

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Construction to start on Keliber’s lithium refinery; €588M investment in full project

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Construction of the concentrator and the near-by Rapasaari mine will be started once their environmental permits have been granted. The lithium hydroxide refinery will consist of several buildings, with a total area of more than 20,000 square meters.

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Ford F-150 Lightning listed among slowest selling used vehicles

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So popular was the vehicle that Ford increased its production plans twice , with the automaker looking to build 150,000 Lightnings annually. In comparison, iSeeCars’ data showed that the average used vehicle was spending just about 49.2 For some time, it was quite difficult to acquire a Ford F-150 Lightning. days on dealer lots.

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Study found highly elevated PM2.5 in pre-COVID-19 subway air in NE US; NYC the worst

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This figure is comparable to sooty contamination from forest fires and building demolition, the study authors said. By comparison, aboveground air concentrations for all measured cities averaged just 16 ?g/m g/m 3 ), followed by the MTA New York at 251 ?g/m Washington had the next highest levels at 145 ?g/m

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