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Schneider taking delivery of 92 Class 8 eCascadia electric trucks

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Schneider’s first Freightliner eCascadia, manufactured by Daimler Truck North America (DTNA), is set to roll off the assembly line at the Portland, Oregon, DTNA plant. Battery-electric trucks are crucial in meeting Schneider’s sustainability goals of reducing CO2 per-mile emissions by 7.5% by 2025 and 60% by 2035.

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Canada government to approve new Electric Vehicle Availability Standard

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The EU law will require automakers to cut CO2 emissions of new cars sold by 100% by 2035. However, several states have declared their intention to phase out the sale of gas-powered cars , including New Jersey, California, New York, Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, Virginia, Rhode Island, Maryland, and Connecticut.

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Researchers to evaluate Oregon’s Ecodriving program

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A new Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC) research project, in partnership with the Oregon Department of Transportation, will evaluate the effectiveness of a program to promote “ecodriving,” or fuel-efficient driving. Truxillo is an organizational psychologist, also known as a “work” psychologist.

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Joule and Red Rock Biofuels intend to merge; solar fuels plus biomass F-T

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The company is poised to begin construction of its first refinery located in Lakeview, Oregon in early 2016. Red Rock Biofuels LLC will refine waste biomass residues into high value, low carbon renewable jet and diesel fuels, utilizing waste forest residues as a feedstock at its Lakeview, Oregon facility.

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Study using paleoclimate data suggests climate sensitivity to CO2 doubling may be less severe than projected

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—Andreas Schmittner, Oregon State University researcher and lead author. Other authors on the study include Peter Clark and Alan Mix of OSU; Nathan Urban, Princeton University; Jeremy Shakun, Harvard University; Natalie Mahowald, Cornell University; Patrick Bartlein, University of Oregon; and Antoni Rosell-Mele, University of Barcelona.

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US Mapping Project Highlights Potential for Mineral Carbonation for CO2 Sequestration

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A map accompanying the report shows that most such rocks are found in and around coastal mountain ranges, with the greatest concentrations in California, Oregon and Washington, and along the Appalachians from New England to Alabama. Some also occur in the interior, including Montana.

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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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Oregon State University. Topic 7: Scalable CO2 Electrocatalysis. Global Algae Innovations. Scale-up of Novel Algae Drying and Extraction Unit Operations. North Carolina State University. Scaling Up Biocrude Derived Anode Material (BDAM). Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion. Research Triangle Institute. 10,000,000.

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