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11 more GM facilities worldwide go landfill-free; total up to 122

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Colmotores Assembly (Colombia). This is comparable to the greenhouse gas benefit of 15 million tree seedlings grown for 10 years. Colmotores Assembly in Colombia launched awareness campaigns that engaged employees in reducing waste and sorting it correctly. GM’s new landfill-free facilities include: CAMI Assembly (Canada).

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MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

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Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. —MITEI Director Ernest J.

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Petrobras Biocombustível To Invest US$2.4B in Biodiesel and Ethanol Production

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Abroad, meanwhile, an ethanol production unit is under analysis for Colombia. Overall output is estimated at 3 million liters (approximately 793 thousand gallons US) of E3 per month, to be supplied to independent gas stations. The Nansei Sekiyu refinery, in Okinawa, will supply the gasoline for the project.

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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Honeywell’s UOP—a major international supplier and licensor of technology for petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and major manufacturing industries—has also been an early leader in developing technologies for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels. That’s a big sum.

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