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Study: IMO low-sulfur fuel standards will decrease childhood asthma cases, premature deaths; climate tradeoffs

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Marine shipping fuels will get cleaner in 2020 when a regulation by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) requires a decrease in the allowable amount of sulfur in fuel oil from 3.5% Now, a new open-access study published in Nature Communications quantifies these health benefits and finds cleaner shipping fuels will result in a 3.6%

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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.” Use of the new technologies will result in much cleaner emissions, as they produce no sulfur and significantly reduce the production of NO x and particulates. billion, $0.5 billion, $2.6

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Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it 

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It has become a cleaner energy storage solution. Also, the aluminium, which has a high relative impact, is assumed to be sourced from the US while most of the raw materials for the cathode and anode are sourced from where the production is concentrated such as Chile, DRC, Finland, China and Australia. Lithium-ion battery production.