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Honda secures auto industry’s largest renewable energy purchase; 60% reduction in CO2 from N.A. manufacturing operations

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In fall of 2021, Honda will secure an additional 482,000 MWh/year from 200 MW of solar power generated from a Texas solar facility. Additional details of the Texas solar facility will be disclosed in 2020 when it is nearer to completion. will deliver to the grid by the end of 2020.

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Texas A&M team developing photocatalyst to turn CO2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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Researchers with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, led by Dr. Ying Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, are developing a photocatalyst to convert CO 2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels.

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Tesla’s Move To Texas & Its ESG Status

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That's why Tesla's move to Texas seems so contradictory and is worrying environmental, social, and governance-focused investors. Tesla is a disruptive force that is changing the way the entire world engages in energy consumption.

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Planet-Warming Texas Oil Refineries Embrace Communist Chinese Stance on Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions. CO2-Belching Texas Polluters Pony Up Millions To Overturn California’s AB 32

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Your Greenius is sorry to report that there’s been nothing but more bad news on the climate action scene in the past couple of weeks. And now they don’t want to have to pay the price for the carbon they burn or for the impacts their CO2 emissions cause. They want to take the money and run.

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Study: expanding Brazilian sugarcane for ethanol could reduce global CO2 emissions by up to 5.6%

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This would be a massive undertaking, involving the conversion of hundreds of thousands of square miles—at its most ambitious, more than the combined land area of Texas and California—to sugarcane fields. The carbon-related costs of converting the land to sugarcane fields were included in the analysis. Gigatons yr −1.

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EIA releases report on CO2 emissions by state; California led in 2010 with transportation-sector emissions

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Factors such as size, population density, available fuels, types of businesses, climate, all play a role in both total and per capita emissions, the EIA noted. Topping the list for absolute emissions in 2010 was Texas (652.6 million tonnes CO 2 ), followed by Texas (194.9 million tonnes in Texas (8.3%). tonnes/person).

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DOE-supported carbon and capture storage projects hit 10M tonnes of CO2 milestone

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in Port Arthur, Texas, is demonstrating a system to capture carbon emissions from two steam methane reformers used to produce hydrogen. The CO 2 , in compressed form, is then delivered by pipeline to enhanced oil recovery projects in eastern Texas. One DOE supported project alone has now captured nearly 2 million metric tons of CO 2.

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