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JULY 4, 2021

Blackstone Resources AG announced that its German subsidiary Blackstone Technology GmbH will increase its battery production capacity tenfold to 500 MWh per annum by 2022 for Li-ion batteries, which contain 3D-printed battery electrodes, at Blackstone’s Döbeln site in Saxony.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

Metz and Janelle London finds that state vehicle electrification mandates can withstand legal challenges based on federal preemption if they are based solely on reasons for transitioning to electric vehicles that are within the state's authority. The article points to the 2019 Supreme Court case of Virginia Uranium v.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The Alliance to Save Energy has chartered a national commission of business, government and civil society leaders that will work together to develop a pathway and recommendations to reduce energy use in the US transportation sector by 50% by 2050 while meeting future mobility needs. Non-road (e.g.,

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

mMT lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) Great Salt Lake resource and debt reduction. The resulting conversion sample met established battery-grade specifications for the US domestic electric vehicle and energy storage markets. Jones Day acted as legal advisor for KM&T.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Bank of America has joined Stanford University’s Global Climate & Energy Project (GCEP), a collaboration of academic and business experts that identifies and supports new avenues of research to make environmentally sustainable, low-cost energy available to everyone. Bank of America can help move GCEP technologies to commercialization.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Australia-based battery materials company Liontown Resources Limited entered into a legally binding sales and purchase term sheet with electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla for the supply of spodumene concentrate. Underpinned by a world-class lithium deposit with a Mineral Resource Estimate of 156 Mt at 1.4%

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Ukraine’s next crisis will be a devastatingly economic one, as violent conflict destroys critical infrastructure in the east and brings key industry to a halt, furthering weakening the energy sector by crippling coal-based electricity production. In the wider energy picture, the halt of coal production sets Ukraine back a decade.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2020

They promote competitive sustainability and are necessary for green transport, clean energy and to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Batteries that are more sustainable throughout their life cycle are key for the goals of the European Green Deal and contribute to the zero pollution ambition set in it.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2013

Such crops could be the source of significant fuel resources from biological production DOE said, noting that therefore it is extremely important to understand their potential impact on the environment. Among the specific questions in the RFI are: How do you define “engineered high energy crops?” If so, what are these regions?

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APRIL 30, 2020

Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE) released a new report “ Legal Grounds: Law and Policy Options to Facilitate a Phase-Out of Fossil Fuel Production in California.”. These resources are responsible for billions of dollars in state and local revenue and other economic activity each year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2013

The Governors of California, Oregon and Washington and the Premier of British Columbia signed a regional agreement strategically to align policies to reduce greenhouse gases and promote clean energy. The agreement has no legal effect and imposes no legally binding obligation. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 7, 2011

Energy Ministers from around the world have agreed to proposals to help speed up the global deployment of carbon capture and storage. At a meeting in the United Arab Emirates, Ministers at the Clean Energy Ministerial endorsed recommendations from the Carbon Capture, Use and Storage (CCUS) Action Group chaired by Australia and the UK.

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MARCH 2, 2020

These processes would constitute and important element of a resource-efficient and sustainable circular economy for electromobility. from reassembly to replacement batteries and use in second-life applications such as stationary energy storage to high-quality recycling of cell materials.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

Under the plea agreement, both Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress, must certify that they have reserved sufficient assets to meet legal obligations with respect to its coal ash impoundments within North Carolina, obligations estimated to be approximately $3.4 million tons of coal ash); Kentucky (approximately 1.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2014

The study, which provides a joint industry analysis of how different types of batteries are used in different automotive applications, concludes that lead-based batteries will by necessity remain the most wide-spread energy storage system in automotive applications for the foreseeable future. Nickel-metal hydride batteries.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

PM is primarily generated by fuel combustion in different sectors, including transport, energy, households, industry, and from agriculture. and PM 10 are capable of penetrating deep into the lungs but PM 2.5 can even enter the bloodstream, primarily resulting in cardiovascular and respiratory impacts, and also affecting other organs.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

FuelCell Energy, Inc. Germany needs clean baseload distributed power generation and FuelCell Energy has market leading solutions so it is a very good fit for Fraunhofer to work with FuelCell Energy. FuelCell Energy has established a legal entity in Germany for the joint venture and will retain majority ownership.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Saying that “ investment-grade climate change and clean energy policy is required to shift private sector investment from high-carbon to low-carbon assets ”, a group of 285 investors has urged governments and international policy makers to take new and meaningful steps in the fight against climate change.

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OCTOBER 15, 2011

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) issued a press release on Friday saying that Baard Energy had agreed to a settlement entailing their switching from coal as a feedstock for its planned coal/biomass-to-liquids Ohio River Clean Fuels plant ( earlier post ) to natural gas. of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program for ORCF.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2013

The Transboundary Agreement removes uncertainties regarding development of transboundary resources in the resource-rich Gulf of Mexico. Estimates by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) indicate this area contains as much as 172 million barrels of oil and 304 billion cubic feet of natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2019

Due to the low CO 2 concentration in the ambient air—today, the proportion is 0.038%—large quantities of air have to be treated in large filter systems in order to produce significant quantities of synthetic energy sources. In addition, ‘crowd oil’ could mobilize many new actors for the energy transition.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The facility would liquefy and export natural gas produced by Progress Energy Canada Ltd. Both Pacific NorthWest LNG and Progress Energy are majority-owned by PETRONAS. The project is subject to over 190 legally binding conditions that will lessen the environmental impacts of the project. in northeast British Columbia.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2019

Sila Nano replaces conventional graphite electrodes entirely with its proprietary silicon-dominant composite materials that enable high energy density and high cycle life, which translates to more powerful, longer-range and enduring sources of power for electric vehicles. —Gene Berdichevsky, co-founder and CEO of Sila Nano.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

million as part of this legal settlement. These stakeholders included environmental groups, transportation groups, medium- and heavy-duty vehicle manufacturers, energy suppliers, and EJ (environmental justice) organizations. With the support of the Attorney General's Office, New York received $127.7

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2011

Marathon Oil Corporation has reached a definitive agreement with Hilcorp Resources Holdings, LP to purchase its assets in the core of the Eagle Ford shale formation in Texas in a transaction valued at $3.5 The legal advisor to Marathon for this transaction is Baker Botts and the financial advisor is Barclays Capital.

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DECEMBER 24, 2011

billion barrels (net) of Best Estimate Contingent Resources through both acquisitions and additional geological and reservoir work in 2011. These additions have brought Osum’s total land position in the Saleski region to more than 173,000 net acres and total Best Estimate Contingent Resources to approximately 3.4 Scotia Waterous Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The iZEUS project on the consumer-oriented integration of electric energy networks and transportation Project is funded by the German Ministry for Economy and Transport Rüsselsheim/Stuttgart. The iZEUS project is about bringing this experience to the development of simple and customer-oriented accounting systems for battery charging.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

billion in discretionary funds for the US Department of Energy (DOE), a 3.2% The request includes increased funding for clean energy, research and development to spur innovation, and advanced manufacturing. part of a broad energy strategy that emphasizes. million for geothermal energy and enhanced geothermal systems.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) tasked ORNL with evaluating the new stream-reach development resource potential of more than 3 million US streams. The NSD Assessment builds on a 2012 Energy Department assessment that found more than 12 GW of hydropower potential at the nation’s existing 80,000 non-powered dams.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

introduced legislation that would set an escalating fee on greenhouse gas emissions from large stationary sources to fund investments in energy efficiency and sustainable energy technologies and also provide rebates to consumers to offset increases in energy prices. Investment in energy efficiency and sustainable energy.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) recently stated that the sale of new ICE vehicles would be banned after 2035. At the same time, 17 states have sued the state of California over the ban via federal court, and more legal challenges are expected. Colorado is another state that is weary of the new regulation.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The European NGO Transport & Environment commissioned IFP Energies Nouvelles to run a series of lab-based tests simulating real-world driving (WLTC and RDE) to measure the emissions of different electrofuel blends in an A-class (A180) Mercedes. However, said T&E, particle pollution was far from eliminated. Full report. Test results.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The sensors are poised for mass-scale adoption in fields including automotive, health care, industrial automation, energy, and smart cities. Consequences of poor cybersecurity A cyberattack can lead to financial penalties and legal issues if it renders a business or organization unable to fulfill its contractual obligations.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

The Partnership holds about 409,000 net acres of Encana’s undeveloped Montney-formation natural gas lands in the company’s Cutbank Ridge resource play in northeast British Columbia. —Jun Yanai, Mitsubishi’s Executive Vice President, Chief Executive Officer for Energy Business Group. Mitsubishi will pay C$1.45

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2012

and Chief Legal Officer, Toyota Motor North America, said: This agreement marks a significant step forward for our company, one that will enable us to put more of our energy, time and resources into Toyota’s central focus: making the best vehicles we can for our customers and doing everything we can to meet their needs.

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MAY 1, 2014

The California Air Resources Board announced that Ford Motor Company has agreed to fines totaling $2,960,000 for violations of air quality laws related to the sale of vehicles with non-compliant On-Board Diagnostic (OBD) systems in California. Officials estimate the money will support loans for about 90 clean-diesel vehicles.

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MARCH 31, 2012

The state’s legal dispute with the companies resulted from the lack of development at Point Thomson for the past 30 years. —Alaska Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan. In addition to broadening market access, a south-central Alaska LNG approach could more closely align with in-state energy demand and needs.

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