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APRIL 22, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $5 million in grant funding for 4 clean diesel projects at ports in California, Oregon, New Jersey and Texas. The Port of Houston Authority will replace 25 drayage trucks with drayage trucks powered by certified engines that are model year 2011 or newer.

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MARCH 20, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $8 million to communities in 21 states and Puerto Rico to reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of diesel engines through the agency’s Diesel Emission Reduction Act ( DERA ) program. EPA estimates that every $1 in DERA funding generates up to $13 in health care savings.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

The California Energy Commission has approved a 4-million grant to Equilon Enterprises LLC (dba Shell Oil Products US) to develop and demonstrate the first multi-modal hydrogen refueling station in California. Locomotives and marine vessels emit approximately 90% of diesel particulate matter and 24% of statewide NO x.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Funded by a grant from Danish EUDP (Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program), the partners will pursue a high-efficiency solution with the scalability to support marine industry decarbonization. Alfa Laval, a marine supplier with more than a century of expertise, will head the development initiative.

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APRIL 27, 2017

EPA is announcing $11 million in competitive grant funding for the Diesel Emissions Reductions Act (DERA) Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program. Eligible diesel vehicles, engines and equipment include: School buses. Locomotive engines. Marine engines. Class 5 – Class 8 heavy-duty highway vehicles.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

EPA is announcing the availability of $4 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from marine and inland water ports. This grant competition is available under the Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA) Program and is the first competition to focus on solely reducing emissions at ports.

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APRIL 20, 2010

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is soliciting a project for the hybridization of an existing marine vessel for an award of up to $1,000,000. All work must be completed within two years post grant award. The solicitation covers the use of hybrid technology to repower an existing marine vessel in California.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

—Andrew Lund, chief engineer, Toyota Motor North America Research and Development. Reducing airborne pollution at the Ports of L.A. Toyota’s next generation fuel cell electric technology is now powering a new set of Class 8 heavy-duty trucks. and Long Beach is an important driver of this program.

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MAY 2, 2014

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $9 million in grant funding for clean diesel projects to reduce diesel pollution and emissions exposure from the nation''s existing fleet of diesel engines.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency will award a $739,500 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant to Foss Maritime Company, Environmental Solutions Worldwide (ESW) and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA), which are partnering to test a pollution-reducing device on two Foss tugs, the Garth Foss and the Lindsey Foss.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The BSEE is funding the project with a $960,493 grant to UH researchers Zheng Chen, Bill D. Cook Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Gangbing Song, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Mechanical Engineering, who are working in collaboration with Oceaneering International and Chevron.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

The newly formed Engine Products Group (EPG)—comprising the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (Alliance), The Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, Inc. —Kris Kiser, Executive Vice President of The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, speaking on behalf of the Engine Products Group. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the US’ existing fleet of diesel engines. California Air Resources Board (CARB)-verified retrofit technologies or certified engine configurations.

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MAY 26, 2016

and the Port of Los Angeles are launching the Green Omni Terminal Demonstration Project, a full-scale, real-time demonstration of zero and near-zero emission technologies at a working marine terminal. At full build out, Pasha will be the world’s first marine terminal able to generate all of its energy needs from renewable sources.

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APRIL 25, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a Request for Proposals ( EPA-OAR-OTAQ-12-05 ) with up to $20 million in FY 2012 grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing pollution from the existing fleet of diesel engines. Engine Upgrades: up to 50% of the cost of eligible engine upgrades.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

The terminals will also pay $756,000 to the Port of Los Angeles for grants to allow small trucking firms to buy new, low-emission trucks; $324,000 to the Port of Long Beach for projects for clean running trucks and locomotives; and $540,000 in civil penalties. Eagle Marine Services, Ltd.; International Transportation Service, Inc.;

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JUNE 17, 2014

In addition to increasing fuel efficiency and reducing emissions of harmful pollutants, fuel cells are quiet and would be particularly helpful when a plane is at a gate and the main jet engines are turned off. Kwon, Shuozhen Hu, Oscar Marin-Flores, M. Grant Norton, Jinsoo Kim, Louis Scudiero, Joe Breit and Su Ha?

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AUGUST 29, 2009

The funding from A*STAR’s Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) will support research teams from A*STAR research institutes and local institutes of higher learning to develop solutions to manage environmental deterioration, pressures on natural resources and climate change brought on by rapid growth and urbanization.

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APRIL 28, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, logo pictured) is ready to back clean diesel engines – with a $20million grant for a number of projects aimed at reducing pollution from existing diesel fleets.

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MAY 11, 2017

The California Energy Commission awarded more than $24 million in grants today for clean energy freight transportation projects in Los Angeles and Long Beach and more than $12 million for other clean transportation projects. Several other ARFVTP-funded projects were also approved.

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JUNE 30, 2011

These plans will reduce pollution to the level required by the health-based 1997 PM 2.5 However, these areas continue to be two of the most polluted air basins in the nation. Diesel mobile sources such as trucks, construction equipment and marine vessels are the largest source of PM 2.5 standard (NAAQS) by 2015. in California.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Engine room of a Foss hybrid tug. Foss Maritime Company, builder and operator of a hybrid tugboat ( earlier post ), will add a second hybrid tug, a retrofit, to its Southern California fleet with the help of an air quality grant obtained by the Port of Long Beach. Tags: Hybrids Ports and Marine. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 24, 2020

OptiFuel Systems, a system integrator of Cummins and BAE Systems hybrid power products for decarbonizing the rail, marine, and microgrid power market, is in the process of finalizing a $2.6 million US Department of Energy (DOE) grant to demonstrate a pre-production Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) hybrid 4,300 hp line-haul locomotive.

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JUNE 14, 2016

In 2014, Scripps Institution of Oceanography received a grant from the US Department of Transportation to test the use of biofuel on the research vessel Robert Gordon Sproul for more than a year. The drop-in HDRD used to power R/V Robert Gordon Sproul did not require any engine adjustments adjustments. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 1, 2009

power from renewable sources—wind, solar, geothermal, biomass or landfill gas, hydropower, and marine and hydrokinetic—for retail electricity suppliers beginning at 6% in 2012 and gradually rising to 25% in 2025 and continuing at that level through 2039. heavy duty on-road vehicles, off-road vehicles, locomotives, marine and aviation engines.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The project will continuously record how much fuel each engine uses in conjunction with speed, engine power, weather and other operational variables through use of mass flow meters and an interface to the Integrated Control System (ICS) on-board to capture key performance data.

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MARCH 22, 2010

These issues highlight the challenges of turning carbon into a commodity, with the undertaking’s simultaneous goals of imposing financial penalties on polluters, luring more investors into the market, and channeling money toward renewable energy technologies that would reduce emissions. CONCLUSION. Donovan (20 December 2009). Renergie”).

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MAY 5, 2016

The companies receiving funds have the engineering resources, manufacturing capabilities and distribution networks to support commercialization of advanced technologies related to moving freight to and from the ports. This marks the single largest grant ever made to advance zero emission trucks serving ports in the United States.

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MARCH 6, 2010

Erosion control may reduce water pollution from non-point sources, a leading source of water pollution in US waterbodies. Donovan is an engineer and attorney with more than thirty-four years of international business experience. For example, offset projects that promote carbon sequestration in soil (e.g., About the Author.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

Funding will be in the form of cooperative agreements or grants. Reducing emissions from diesel engines remains one of the most important air quality challenges facing the country, according to the EPA. A single proposal may target multiple fleets, fleet types and/or diesel emission reduction solutions.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is on the lookout for proposals for projects that achieve significant reductions in diesel emissions both in terms of the tons of pollution produced and diesel emissions exposure. The EPA has targeted reducing emissions from diesel engines as one of its most important challenges.

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APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

The operational areas of seed selection, planting, harvesting, processing, blending of the hydrous advanced biofuel, and marketing are compartmentalized in a manner in which it would be virtually impossible for a competitor to reverse engineer Field-to-Pump. What is clear is that a cap-and-trade system in the US could be manipulated.

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