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million program that Governor Schwarzenegger approved in 2007 to spur technological innovation in the transportation sector. million to fund air quality improvement programs that will pay for cleaner equipment such as hybrid truck and buses, zero-emission and plug-in hybrid cars, and motorcycles. ARB was appropriated approximately $42.3

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JULY 31, 2017

LanzaTech’s first commercial facility will be online at the end of 2017 in China, producing fuel-grade ethanol from captured steelmaking off-gas. The CO gas produced in open or semi-closed furnaces is burnt to CO 2 above the charge level. during steel manufacturing. —Joseph Zinyana of Swayana. Resources. Lindstad, S.E.

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JUNE 30, 2010

SSSKK) plan to begin trials on 1 July of a diesel-electric hybrid transit bus fueled by a mixture of Fischer-Tropsch diesel (FTD)—specifically, Shell’s gas-to-liquids (GTL) fuel—and hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO), a type of renewable diesel offering similar characteristics to FTD. (Hino) and Showa Shell Sekiyu K. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 2, 2016

The City of Santa Monica, California has awarded Clean Energy a multi-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) contract to fuel its Big Blue Bus (BBB) fleet of vehicles. ARB has defined this certified Near Zero NO x emission level as equivalent to a 100% battery truck using electricity from a modern combined cycle natural gas power plant.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Under the original “Sustainable Zoom-Zoom” vision announced in 2007, Mazda has endeavored to offer both driving pleasure and environmental and safety performance. It intends to achieve this with a policy prioritizing efficiency improvements and measures for cleaner emissions that apply in the real world. Earlier post.). Yamasaki, Y.,

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In addition, the introduction of natural gas through APG’s dual fuel system does not impact diesel engine power or pulling torque and will assist in extending the engine’s oil life as natural gas is a cleaner burning fuel compared to diesel. The initial vehicle to be tested for Waste Connections of Colorado, Inc.

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APRIL 28, 2010

While technological advances are producing cleaner vehicles, more and more passengers and goods are travelling further distances in Europe, thereby offsetting efficiency gains. Transport, including international aviation and maritime transport, accounts for around a quarter of total EU greenhouse gas emissions. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 14, 2014

2015 Investment Plan Update covers the sixth year of the program and reflects laws, executive orders, and policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, petroleum dependence, and criteria emissions. million for natural gas fueling stations. duty vehicles from diesel to natural gas. Background.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007) authorized the Energy Commission to provide approximately $100 million annually over seven years to encourage new fuels and technologies. million to boost the number of natural gas- and propane-powered vehicles in the state and the fueling stations that support them.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The technology reduces greenhouse gas and smog-forming emissions, particularly in heavy idling or stop-and-go vehicles. ARB created the financial incentive program in 2007 under AB 118, legislation that provided funding for a range of alternative fuels and vehicle technologies.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

plans to expand its existing network of liquefied natural gas (LNG) truck fueling stations in Southern California this year beyond its current two LNG stations located at the Los Angeles/Long Beach ports complex. acre site, the station is the second that the company has opened in the area to serve natural gas-powered port drayage trucks.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Extending our feedstock base is a central component of our cleaner traffic strategy and our aim is to focus on making use of waste and residues with the smallest possible carbon footprint for producing our renewable fuels. Work on the pilot plant has progressed according to plan and the technology has performed excellently.

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OCTOBER 31, 2009

In 2007, GE and BP formed a global alliance to jointly develop and deploy technology for at least five IGCC power plants that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation. The plant, to be located near Bakersfield, in Kern County, Calif., Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Air Products and Suzuki Shokan, an industrial gas company based in Tokyo, will work together on the design, construction and operation of hydrogen fueling stations for use in fueling the material handling vehicle market in Japan. Development and practical use of fuel cells in material handling applications have already started in the country.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

While current state and federal measures are on target to reduce toxic diesel locomotive emissions 65% or more by 2020, additional measures recommended by ARB staff would ultimately provide up to 85% or greater emissions reductions within the rail yards over the same period, resulting in cleaner air for nearby residential neighborhoods as well.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

This should allow us to change the way we build, operate and maintain our equipment; manufacture cleaner and more efficient products; develop imaginative energy sources and then store that energy for when it is needed most; and increase the use of lighter metals and composites for structures and products. The EBI was launched in 2007.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

We have been thrilled with the performance of liquid injection in general—such good performance characteristics, gas mileage, emissions, service and warranty—that’s the wave of the future for OEM programs. Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), also known as propane or autogas, can be used to replace gasoline and diesel.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

All inline engines are based on the latest platform introduced in 2007 with technologies to meet Euro 5 and Euro 6 emission requirements, as well as Euro 4 and Euro 3. Eleven EEV engines between 230 and 730 hp include one ethanol and two gas/biogas versions. In 2007, Scania offered Euro 5 engines using only EGR technology.

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APRIL 23, 2009

The Alternative and Renewable Fuels Vehicle Technology Program was established by Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007) and is an essential element of the California's climate change and energy policies. Vice Chair James Boyd. 2 million for propane vehicles. 2 million for propane vehicles.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

594, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) §§ 201 et seq., It will protect us from volatile oil prices and provide consumers with cleaner fuels and provide the nation with greater energy security. Earlier post.). 109-58, 119 Stat. 110-140, 121 Stat. 1492, and the federal Renewable Fuels Standard. LCFS Complaint.

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MAY 21, 2009

The project hopes to decrease water use and lower the emission of greenhouse gases of oil sand production, and enhance the extraction of clean burning natural gas from coal beds. Manipulate microbial populations in tailings ponds to improve the bioremediation properties while decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 16, 2016

Uranium analyst David Talbot of Dundee Capital Markets is forecasting 6 percent compound annual demand growth through 2020, which is enough, he says, to “kick-start” uranium prices up to and beyond 2007 levels. But the toxicity levels have dissipated, and nuclear energy is rebounding as a cleaner power source with next generation safeguards.

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APRIL 1, 2009

These microbial communities can enhance oil recovery in a variety of ways, which include breaking down the molecular structure of crude oil and making it more fluid, producing carbon dioxide gas or biomass that displace the oil, and by creating biosurfactants that behave like slippery detergents in moving the oil. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

The California Air Resources Board released its proposed greenhouse gas cap-and-trade regulation. A key part of ARB’s AB 32 Scoping Plan ( earlier post ), the cap-and-trade program provides an overall limit on the emissions from sources responsible for 85% of California’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Mitigation. Perspective by Brian J.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

The purpose of the report is to consider strategically how biofuels might lessen the country’s dependence on fossil fuels and thus reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The decrease in congestion on Auckland’s motorways when the price of a liter of petrol rose above two dollars in 2007 is testament to this flexibility, he said.

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JULY 21, 2007

According to Autos Insider of July 12, 2007 Toyota, which has sold 1 million hybrids worldwide, including 750,000 in the United States, over the last decade, said converting a hybrid risks vehicle fires, and actually increases greenhouse gas emissions. After all, grid electricity is cleaner and cheaper than gasoline.

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JUNE 9, 2015

The new catalyst could cost-effectively remove benzene from the other aromatic compounds in gasoline, making it cleaner but without eliminating other aromatics; aromatics in gasoline are used to improve gas octane numbers and fuel efficiency.

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2 Plug-in hybrids are cleaner 3 Plug-in hybrids are cheaper 4 Plug-in hybrids are domestic 5 Plug-in hybrids already exist 1. You can fill it up at the gas station, and you can plug it in to any 120-volt outlet. But when you do, your car essentially becomes an electric vehicle with a gas-tank backup. What Are Plug-In Hybrids?

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MARCH 6, 2018

Greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) from the Information and Communication Industry (ICT) could grow from roughly 1–1.6% in 2007 to exceed 14% of the 2016-level worldwide GHGE by 2040, accounting for more than half of the current relative contribution of the whole transportation sector, according to a new study from McMaster University in Canada.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

We’re also going to be talking about some developments we’re making on biofuels, so that more folks can start filling up their cars and trucks with cleaner, American-grown fuels. And we want to get up 10 commercial demonstration projects, get those up and running by 2016. President Obama. Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). Renewable fuel.

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Achieving these goals will require the transportation sector to compress its product development cycle for cleaner, more efficient engine technologies by 50% while simultaneously exploring innovative design space. Fahey (2007) S3D: Petascale Combustion. Dual-fuel Combustion. J H Chen et al. 2 015001 doi: 10.1088/1749-4699/2/1/015001.

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released their long-expected notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to adjust the Congressionally-mandated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards.

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AUGUST 22, 2009

The European Community’s air pollutant emission inventory report released by the European Environment Agency finds that in 2007, sulphur oxides (SO x ) emissions were down by 72 % from 1990 levels. EU-27 emissions of all four pollutants were lower in 2007 than in 2006.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Damages are expressed in cents per VMT (2007 USD). Most vehicle and fuel combinations had similar levels of greenhouse gas emissions in 2005. Vehicles using ethanol made from corn stover or herbaceous feedstock such as switchgrass had some of the lowest greenhouse gas emissions, as did those powered by compressed natural gas.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

utilizing these ideas and instructions in an attempting to enhance national security, reduce gas consumption, vehicle "emissions", your carbon footprint, or smog, you do so at your own risk & peril. However they also retain the ability to travel long distances when utilizing the existing gas or diesel refueling infrastructure.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

In December 2008, the Board adopted two regulations directly aimed at reducing PM, NO x and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the estimated one million heavy-duty diesel trucks that operate in California. Recession has reduced trucking activity in California, which according to staff analysis is down 10-18% since 2007. Background.

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