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Neste launches Neste MY Renewable Diesel made 100% from waste and residues in Finland; initial customers

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Sales of Neste MY will begin at Neste service stations in Finland, namely Espoo Piispanmäki, Vantaa Ilmakehä, Helsinki Konala, Espoo Otaniemi, Espoo Olari and Vantaa Varisto. During January, sales of Neste MY will also expand to select Neste Truck stations for heavy traffic in Finland.

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Fortum Battery Recycling exploring new hub devel­opment in Germany

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In April, the company started operating a hydrometallurgical facility in Harjavalta, Finland that is today Europe’s largest closed-loop recycling facility. In March, Fortum Battery Recycling started its first commercial operations in Germany, Kirchardt, as the first mechanical processing plant was opened.

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EEA report finds most Europeans in cities still exposed to levels of air pollution exceeding WHO guidelines

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The long-term WHO AQG for PM 10 was exceeded at 51% of the stations and in all of the reporting countries, except Estonia, Finland and Ireland. was exceeded at 69% of the stations located in all of the reporting countries, except Estonia, Finland and Norway. The long-term WHO AQG for PM 2.5 17 % of the EU?28

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Study links PM2.5 pollution to increased risk of diabetes; even low levels pose risk

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million new diabetes cases globally in 2016—about 14% of all new diabetes cases globally that year. million years of healthy life were lost in 2016 due to pollution-linked diabetes, representing about 14% of all years of healthy life lost due to diabetes from any cause. They also estimated that 8.2 In the US, the EPA’s PM 2.5

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Forest BtL Oy licenses Carbo-V gasification technology from Linde for wood-to-liquids plant

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Finland-based Forest BtL Oy has licensed Carbo-V biomass gasification technology from Linde Engineering Dresden GmbH. The Carbo-V technology will be implemented in a new Biomass–to-Liquid (BtL) plant in Kemi, Northern Finland. Forest BtL’s process. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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EU COMSYN project for compact gasification and synthesis for biomass-based fuels

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The gasification of biomass and the gas cleaning process are developed and piloted by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd together with GKN Sinter Metals Filters GmbH. million) from the EU Horizon 2020 Competitive Low-Carbon Energy call 08-2016. It receives funding of €5.1 million (US$6.1

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New Icon-class ships from Royal Caribbean to be powered by LNG with 2022 delivery; testing hydrogen fuel cells in 2017

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RCL has signed a memorandum of understanding with Finland shipbuilder Meyer Turku for the new class of vessel under the project name “Icon.” Based upon current ship orders, projected capital expenditures for full year 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 are $2.4 The ships will join the fleet of Royal Caribbean International. billion, $0.5

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