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Chicago Area Clean Cities names American Lung Association 2017 Clean Fuels Champion

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The American Lung Association has been named the 2017 Clean Fuels Champion by Chicago Area Clean Cities (CACC), a nonprofit coalition dedicated to promoting clean-energy and clean-air solutions for transportation in the Chicago area impacting nearly 9 million people. Air pollution poses a serious threat to our nation’s health.

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Sinopec targeting 10B cubic meters of gas per year by 2017 from China’s first large-scale shale gas field

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China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) said that it had made significant breakthroughs in the exploration and development of shale gas in China, and is planning to develop the Fuling shale gas field into China’s first shale gas field with an annual production capacity of 10 billion cubic meters by 2017. trillion cubic meters.

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Why the Next Microgrids Will Be Well Connected

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In September 2017 , Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. During and after Maria, Casa Pueblo continued to operate a solar-based microgrid it had installed in 2017. Casa Pueblo’s solar-powered radio transmitter was the main means of disseminating news across central Puerto Rico after the 2017 storm. percent to 2.8

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EPA: Cleaner power generation offset increase of vehicle emissions in 2017

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percent in 2017, despite the Trump administration's efforts to revive coal use in the U.S., The EPA released data for 2017, showing an even larger 4.5 percent drop in emissions from power plants compared with 2016, as more coal plants are retired. emissions of global-warming greenhouse gases fell 2.7 So electric.

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TSMC’s Energy Demand Drives Taiwan’s Geopolitical Future

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Power use by TSMC increased by 85 percent between 2017 and 2022—30 times as fast as Taiwan’s industrial sector as a whole. Between 2017 and 2022, TSMC’s energy consumption nearly doubled to about 21,000 gigawatt-hours. It’s particularly acute in central Taiwan, due to an aging 4,950-MW coal plant in Taichung.

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Biden-Harris EPA rules save $253B/yr, 202k lives; Project 2025 seeks rollback

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The analysis focused on sixteen major air pollution rule updates that EPA implemented over the last four years, summing up their potential environmental and economic effects. This analysis is purely for air pollution standards like smokestack and tailpipe pollution. Between these rules, the sum total of benefits are staggering.

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