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Etihad Airways flies first flight using fuel made in the UAE from plants grown in saltwater

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The flight from Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam marked a milestone in the development of a clean, alternative aviation fuel to reduce carbon emissions. Clean, alternative aviation fuels are an innovative and sustainable solution to significantly reducing harmful carbon emissions. Earlier post.).

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Pennsylvania DEP awards nearly $517,000 in clean diesel grants

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has designated the five-county Philadelphia region of Bucks, Delaware, Chester, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties as non-attainment for ozone and fine particulate matter air quality standards. Berks, Lehigh and Northampton counties recently achieved attainment status for federal ozone standards.

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EPA Proposes to Streamline Approval Process for Fuel Conversion Systems

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The new options would reduce some economic and procedural impediments to clean alternative fuel conversions while maintaining environmental safeguards to ensure that acceptable emission levels from converted vehicles are sustained. MY 2009, 2010, 2011 and < useful life mileage. Overview of Proposed Program Elements.

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EPA updates rules to ease commercialization of alternative fuel conversion systems

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EPA evaluated the requirement and determined that it is appropriate to introduce new flexibilities for all clean alternative fuel converters and to expand the compliance options for certain categories of conversions. Category Applicability Example for 2011. MY 2010, 2011, 2012 and < useful life mileage. Demonstration.

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California state senate approves bills extending sole-occupant HOV perk for plug-ins and alt fuel vehicles to 2019

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Existing law exempts certain clean, alternative-fuel vehicles from these occupancy requirements, so that a vehicle with a sole occupant may use an HOV lane—if the vehicle displays a Clean Air Vehicle sticker. The state has implemented three clean air vehicle HOV sticker programs in recent years: White HOV stickers.

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