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IC Bus fulfills largest propane bus order to date

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liter LP propane engine. Purpose-built for the school bus industry, the CE Series with PSI propane engine is designed to provide diesel-like performance with higher torque at lower engine speeds. Minimal revving reduces engine wear, oil usage and maintenance, while increasing durability and efficiency.

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BuG ReMeDEE project seeks to use extremophile bacteria to convert methane to biofuels, biopolymers and electricity

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The project—Building Genome-to-Phenome Infrastructure for Regulating Methane in Deep and Extreme Environments ( BuG ReMeDEE )—was awarded a $6-million grant by the National Science Foundation in October 2017. As momentum built to turn the mine into an underground lab, pumps were installed to dewater the flooded shafts and tunnels.

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UPS to invest $100M more in compressed natural gas, CNG vehicles and related infrastructure

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UPS is working to meet its goal of logging one billion miles with its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet by the end of 2017, using a Rolling Laboratory approach to determine the right alternative fuel solutions to meet the unique needs of route-specific driving environments. At UPS, we own our fleet and our infrastructure.

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G2X Energy and EMRE sign methanol to gasoline technology license and license option agreements; plans for $1.3B natural gas to gasoline plant

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a developer of natural gas to gasoline projects, entered into a licensing agreement to use ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company’s (EMRE’s) methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) technology ( earlier post ) in the development of a world-scale natural gas to gasoline project. The ExxonMobil MTG process flow diagram. Source: EMRE. Click to enlarge.

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UPS to add 1,400 new CNG vehicles over next year; building 15 new CNG fueling stations

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—Mitch Nichols, UPS senior vice president of transportation and engineering. billion km) in this fleet by the end of 2017. Oklahoma City, Okla.; Currently UPS already has a total of eight CNG fueling stations in California, Colorado, Georgia and Oklahoma and operates CNG vehicles in Germany, the Netherlands and Thailand.

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US State Department issues Presidential Permit to TransCanada for Keystone XL

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In January 2017, two days after newly inaugurated President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum inviting TransCanada to “ promptly re-submit its application to the Department of State for a Presidential permit for the construction and operation of the Keystone XL Pipeline ,” the company did so. Earlier post.) Shannon, Jr.