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Greyrock, Tsinhua U, DRI to assess potential of synthetic diesel to improve air quality in China

Green Car Congress

Synthetic fuels may be used for other practical applications such as cooking and domestic heating, potentially resulting in up to 100 times less particulate emissions than coal fired stoves. Dennis Schuetzle, Greyrock’s Chief Technology Officer.

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

From there she went on to author and spearhead AB 32 our Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. It’s going to change the world of our Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. Right now the dock workers and the people who live near the ports are choking on the worst air pollution anywhere in the area.

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The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

Cars That Think

economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. Nichols projected on the screen, in Los Angeles Thursday, Jan. Issues like auto safety and pollution were the chief concerns. These issues are self-contained to the auto itself.”

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

February also saw the publication of a Los Angeles Times interview with US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu ( earlier post ), in which he voiced concern that the effects of climate change could decimate California’s agriculture as well as its urban water supplies. A Portfolio Of Promises. Earlier post.).

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The objections they raised for years -- "no one is interested, no one would plug in, the technology is too complex, the benefits are minimal, its just shifting the pollution from the tailpipe to the smokestack, theres no demand for these cars" -- still show up occasionally, but are by and large history. I got beaten down a number of times."

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