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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Green Car Congress

Tuesday night, President Obama will speak to the nation about the Gulf catastrophe. Tuesday night President Obama will address our nation. The missing piece we dream President Obama will follow up with is an emergency-response roadmap to a world where increasingly scarce and costly oil is used only when needed.

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US releases Federal alternative jet fuels R&D strategy

Green Car Congress

The Obama Administration has released the Federal Alternative Jet Fuels Research and Development (R&D) Strategy (FAJFS), which maps out a unified federal plan to advance R&D as well as science and technology solutions to support deployment of alternative jet fuels (AJFs) in both civil and military aviation. Fuel Conversion and Scale-Up.

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Gore's group on board with plug-ins

Plugs and Cars

The Alliance for Climate Protection, Al Gore's group, has taken another step toward promoting plug-in cars (all electric cars and plug-in hybrids) with its RePower America campaign. Let's hope Al Gore's been saying as much to President Obama (doesn't that sound great!).

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UPS to use biomethane for Memphis and Jackson alternative fuel fleet

Green Car Congress

Atmos will secure landfill gas and provide it to MLGW for conversion to LNG, which will be delivered to the UPS facility by tractor-trailer. UPS was one of the initial 13 leading companies to take the Obama Administration’s American Business Act on Climate Pledge, committing to reduce greenhouse gas emission intensity 20% by 2020.

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Creative Greenius is EV Driven

Creative Greenius

For example, if you look at the page on Obama you find: * The keywords on the left are ordered according to their relationship to the current term. So you can see that Climate Change , Environment , Standards , Solar and other such terms all relate heavily to Obama according to what people talk about. * Obama on cars.

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DOE to award $12.5M to improve efficiency of medium- and heavy-duty trucks as part of new tech track for US-China initiative

Green Car Congress

High conversion efficiency NO x after-treatment and particulate filters. President Obama and President Xi Jinping announced a renewal and expansion of the CERC in November 2014. In September 2015, Obama and Xi announced a fifth CERC track on improving the energy efficiency of medium-duty and heavy-duty trucks. Background.

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Heidi On The Hot Seat

Creative Greenius

The Exxon/Mobil refinery in Torrance and the Chevron refinery in El Segundo are both located in the South Bay and are each a big part of the carbon-based economy that causes the majority of climate change - although you’ll never get either of these corporations to admit this truth or take responsibility for it. It hardly seems fair.