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United purchasing 15M gallons of renewable jet fuel from AltAir Fuel; Honeywell’s UOP Green Jet

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United Airlines executed a definitive purchase agreement with AltAir Fuels ( earlier post ) for cost-competitive, sustainable, bio-synthetic paraffinic kerosene at commercial scale. AltAir will produce low-carbon, renewable jet fuel and other renewable products.

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Commissioning of Westinghouse plasma biomass gasifier at waste to liquids facility in China

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announced that Wuhan Kaidi, which purchased a Westinghouse Plasma gasifier design, and plasma torch systems, from Alter NRG in 2010, has successfully completed the commissioning of the unit at its demonstration facility in Wuhan, China. Alter NRG Corp.

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Valero Renewables to Purchase Three More Ethanol Plants; Total Capacity 1.1B Gallons Per Year

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Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation, has signed an agreement with ASA Ethanol Holdings, LLC to buy two ethanol plants that had been previously owned by VeraSun Energy Corporation. The purchase of the plant from Renew gives us additional production capacity. and Albion, Neb.

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California ARB releases four new LCFS pathways for renewable diesel; 20.28 - 53.86 gCO2e/MJ

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The California Air Resources Board (ARB) Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) staff has released for public comment four new Tier 2 renewable diesel (RD) pathways using soy oil, used cooking oil, tallow, and corn oil at the Diamond Green facility in St. Charles, Louisiana. All of these co-product streams go to the adjacent Valero refinery.

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Man sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for selling $9 million in fraudulent renewable fuel credits

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to nearly 12 years and six months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for selling $9 million in renewable fuel credits which he falsely claimed were produced by his company, Clean Green Fuel, LLC. Hailey registered Clean Green Fuel with EPA under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program as a producer of biodiesel.

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Lockheed Martin invests $4M in Forge Hydrocarbons; lipid to hydrocarbons technology

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Forge’s technology heats waste lipids such as cooking oil, animal renderings and crop seed oil with water at a high temperature, creating fatty acids and glycerol. The glycerol is removed and the fatty acids are heated at more than 400 ? Forge’s LTH technology reduces green house gas emissions by over 70% compared to petroleum-based fuels.

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Volkswagen Group 2014 sustainability report shows progress on key environmental performance indicators; Strategy 2018 and leadership in e-mobility

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below the figure for the base year of 2010. lower than the 588 kg of the base year of 2010. The Group now takes one-third of its electric power from renewable sources. Scope 2: Greenhouse gas emissions in CO 2 equivalents created during the generation of purchased energy (electricity, heat or steam). By 2018, “Think Blue.

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