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Trillium completes construction of largest hydrogen transit refueling station in North America

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Houston-based Trillium is a leading provider of renewable fuels and alternative energy solutions for fleets around the country. Trillium also operates and maintains the OCTA’s compressed natural gas (CNG) station that it built in 2007—meaning Trillium now operates both types of OCTA’s alternative fueling stations.

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Waste Management to expand natural gas-powered fleet in Houston area; CNG to be 80% of US new truck purchases in NA in 2012

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Waste Management plans to expand its fleet of natural gas-powered collection vehicles in the Houston area and open a new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station in Conroe. In 2007, the company set a goal of reducing fleet emissions by 15% and increasing fuel efficiency by 15% by 2020.

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US transit agencies adopting lower-emissions diesel at faster rate than HD truck fleet

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US transit agencies are adopting lower-emissions diesel technology at a faster percentage than the heavy-duty trucking fleet, said Ezra Finkin, the Director of Policy for the Diesel Technology Forum, at last week’s American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Expo Bus and Maintenance Technical Session in Houston.

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Coulomb Technologies Secures $14M in Series B Funding

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Since 2007, Coulomb has been introducing networked charging stations for EVs since 2007. Cities worldwide including San Francisco, Houston, Amsterdam, Chicago, Nashville and Bochum, Germany, now have Coulomb’s charging stations installed for consumer and fleet use. also participated in the round.

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Study explores long-term trends in motor vehicle emissions in US urban areas; targeting high-emitters

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A study of motor vehicle emissions by researchers at UC Berkeley found that running CO and evaporative and tailpipe NMHC emissions from gasoline-powered vehicles in three major US urban centers (NY, LA and Houston) have decreased by almost an order of magnitude over the last twenty years, despite increases in fuel use.

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NASA satellite images highlight US air quality improvement with reduction of NO2

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They show how nitrogen dioxide concentrations during spring and summer months, averaged from 2005-2007, compare to the average from 2009-2011. The mission flew previously in 2011 over Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC; in 2013 over the San Joaquin Valley, California; and in 2013 over Houston, Texas.

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TTI/INRIX study shows US traffic congestion back at pre-recession levels; average travel delay/commuter 2x that in 1982

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last year, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Houston and Riverside, CA. nationally) including Riverside, Houston, Los Angeles, San Jose, Boston and Chicago. That’s a new record, surpassing the 2007 peak just before the global financial crisis. —Tim Lomax, a report co-author and Regents Fellow at TTI.

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