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UPS announces renewable diesel agreements with Neste, REG and Solazyme; up to 46M gallons over next 3 years

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UPS has previously announced a goal of driving one billion miles with our alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles by the end of 2017. Bio-based feedstocks from fats, plant oils and waste residues are converted to renewable diesel using advanced refining technologies. White House climate pledge.

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UPS to invest more than additional $90M in natural gas vehicles and infrastructure; 6 new CNG stations, 440 vehicles

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UPS currently operates 31 CNG fueling stations in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee, and West Virginia and runs CNG vehicles in 38 states in the U.S. In 2016, UPS invested $100 million in CNG fueling stations and vehicles. Chicago, Ill.;

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GM sourcing components for the Chevy Volt produced from recycled oil-soaked plastic booms from BP spill

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General Motors has developed a method to convert an estimated 100 miles of the oil-laden plastic boom material used to soak up oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year into parts for the Chevy Volt. Heritage Environmental managed the collection of boom material along the Louisiana coast. Boom recycling process.

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US DOE offers $241M conditional loan guarantee to renewable diesel plant based on UOPs hydrotreating/isomerization process

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earlier post ), for a $241-million loan guarantee to support the construction of a 137-million gallon per year renewable diesel facility in Norco, Louisiana, about 20 miles west of New Orleans. The project will produce renewable diesel fuel primarily from animal fats, used cooking oil and other waste grease streams.

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DOE Makes First Awards from $1.4B for Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Projects

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to be injected more than 2 miles underground into a saline formation. A system to concentrate CO 2 from two steam methane reformer waste streams will be designed, constructed, and demonstrated at Port Arthur, Texas. This commercial-scale carbon capture and sequestration demonstration project will remove up to 1 million tons of CO 2.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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Louis, San Antonio/Austin, and Oklahoma City as well as a refueling corridor along I-10 in Louisiana (New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lake Charles). The project will provide a 700-mile LNG fueling corridor along one of the nation’s most heavily traveled truck routes for the movement of various goods. Total DOE award: $5,519,862.