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JANUARY 14, 2021

Since its founding in 2018 with the vision and strategy to commercialize methanol fuel cell technology, Blue World Technologies has built its fuel cell platform using the MEA technology of Danish Power Systems. The transaction follows Blue World’s August 2019 purchase of 15% of the shares in Danish Power Systems. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

The ZEV regulations, which are now part of California’s comprehensive Advanced Clean Cars (ACC) program which also includes the LEV III tailpipe emissions standard, is the “technology-forcing piece” of the state’s regulatory package for light-duty vehicles. by about 1.9%.

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JUNE 16, 2016

With prices set to double by 2018, we’ve seen the bottom of the uranium market, and the negative sentiment that has followed this resource around despite strong fundamentals, is starting to change. At the same time, the uranium industry is not producing the uranium needed to feed the hundreds of new reactors slated to come online.

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MARCH 25, 2020

The result implies that globally, cloud changes caused by particles from all forms of industrial pollution block 1 Watt of solar energy per square meter of Earth’s surface, masking almost a third of the present-day warming from greenhouse gases. Satellite image taken 16 January 2018 off the coast of Europe. C, or 1.8 ?F,

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JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. 50% clean power target.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

This gas has very few industrial applications. Now, an international team of researchers have shown, in an open-access paper published in the journal Nature Communications , that concentrations were increasing at an all-time record by 2018.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

EPA is planning to initiate a separate rulemaking to establish multi-pollutant emission standards under the Clean Air Act for MY 2027 and later. The final program represents will reach a projected industry-wide target of 161 grams CO 2 /mile, or 40 miles per gallon value on fuel economy window stickers in 2026. Source: EPA.

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APRIL 2, 2018

Negative reaction to the widely expected announcement was voluminous and vociferous: Ceres: “Rolling back the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and emissions standards will undermine the global competitiveness of the US auto industry. This is not a technical assessment, it is a move to demolish the nation’s clean car program.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), is a CEO-led initiative of 10 oil and gas companies that collaborate on action to lead the industry response to climate change. It has proven industry-best fuel economy gains of up to 30 percent and significant emissions reductions. Zermeno, R.,

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MAY 18, 2016

EPA also proposed the volume requirement for biomass-based diesel for 2018. billion gallons in 2018, up from 1.9 Renewable Fuel Volumes Requirements for 2014-2018 (billion gallons US). The Clean Air Act requires EPA to set annual RFS volume requirements for four categories of biofuels. Source: EPA. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 27, 2018

vehicles) and industrial air pollution—fuel powerful storms and influence weather much more than has been appreciated, according to a study published in the journal Science. Aerosol impacts are a key uncertainty in understanding the current and future climate as well as extreme weather. —Jiwen Fan.

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AUGUST 20, 2017

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to revisit provisions of the Phase 2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines, citing “concerns” raised by stakeholders in the trailer and glider industry. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). feet in length). feet in length).

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Research and development efforts by the team will focus on NextGen environmental goals for noise, air quality, climate change and energy. The FAA’s COE program is a cost-sharing research partnership between academia, industry and the federal government. —FAA Administrator Michael Huerta.

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MAY 19, 2016

The work will be completed by 2018/19, in time for the first round of reviews of the COP21 decarbonization targets in 2020. It is anchored in the ITF’s Corporate Partnership Board, the organization’s platform for discussions with the private sector. The preliminary results of the project will be presented at the next ITF Summit in May 2017.

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MAY 2, 2018

Around 3 billion people—more than 40% of the world’s population—still do not have access to clean cooking fuels and technologies in their homes, the main source of household air pollution. Mexico City has committed to cleaner vehicle standards, including a move to soot-free buses and a ban on private diesel cars by 2025.

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JULY 28, 2017

The Canadian province is expected to link with California’s program in 2018, becoming the second jurisdiction to join California following Quebec in 2014. the risk that an industry would move operations out of state due to competitive disadvantage) and streamline other requirements of the current program. This week, Governor Edmund G.

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MARCH 24, 2017

On the first day of a two-day board meeting—the second day of which (Friday 24 March) will consider the Advanced Clean Cars Midterm Review—the California Air Resources Board (ARB) took a number of climate and air quality actions.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

SLCPs may account for an estimated 40% of global warming, increasing the impacts of climate change. With the reduction in on-road black carbon, regulators are turning to focus on off-road mobile, fuel combustion in the industrial and power sectors, and woodstoves and fireplaces.

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APRIL 12, 2016

Science tells us that making cuts in emissions of these powerful climate pollutants will reduce the near-term impacts of climate change as we phase down fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions. In 2014, California’s dairy industry generated a record $9.4

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MAY 17, 2009

The major climate and energy bill introduced last week by House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Henry Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Edward Markey— H.R. 2454, The American Clean Energy and Security Act. Electric Vehicle Infrastructure. Markup on the bill begins on Monday, 18 May.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from global shipping are on the rise again, according to a new study released by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). The planned third intercessional meeting in April 2018 is to finalize the draft IMO GHG strategy.). The shipping industry is a major emitter of greenhouse gases.

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JULY 15, 2023

Fusion-energy companies have now raised more than US $5 billion, the majority of it since 2021, according to Andrew Holland , the director of the Fusion Industry Association. In the clean rooms, magnets are finished with the help of robots, such as this blue one in the foreground, to remove contaminants.

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JANUARY 21, 2017

Achieving the 2030 target under the proposed plan will continue to build on investments in clean energy and set the California economy on a trajectory to achieving an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. By 2018, develop Integrated Natural and Working Lands Action Plan to secure California’s land base as a net carbon sink.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

The Scoping Plan describes the comprehensive range of efforts California must take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and meet the state’s long-term goals to combat climate change. What steps must California now take to meet the state’s climate goals beyond 2020? —Discussion Draft. Earlier post.).

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MAY 23, 2018

Californians for Zero Emission Vehicles (CalZEV), a coalition of public health, environmental and electric vehicle industry organizations, announced its strong support for the Innovative Clean Transit (ICT) measure currently before the California Air Resources Board (CARB). —Adrian Martinez, staff attorney at Earthjustice.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

This year’s Index finds that 2018 greenhouse gas emissions—the latest year for which data are available—rose overall for the first time since 2012, driven in part by increases in the power and commercial sectors. MMTCO 2 e (+0.2%) in 2018 compared to 2017. from 2017 to 2018 due to a strong growth in real GDP.

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JANUARY 27, 2012

The Advanced Clean Cars package will help clean our air, help us fight climate change, and perhaps most important for average citizens, save thousands of dollars over the life of the vehicles. It also gives use the ability to brag that we are the clean car capital of the world. Source: ARB. Click to enlarge.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Second, while hydrogen can be otherwise produced through the electrolysis of water, this process requires huge amounts of clean and fresh water – a vital and highly valuable commodity of life that can’t be wasted. A hydrogen powered transport industry has been termed the “alternative-energy red herring” (Fletcher , S.

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JUNE 15, 2017

SB 802 would direct the Office of Planning and Research to convene an Emerging Vehicle Advisory Study Group on or before 1 April 2018, to review policies regarding new types of motor vehicles, including, but not limited to, autonomous vehicles and shared-use vehicles. It now goes to the Assembly for consideration.

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AUGUST 3, 2017

The company’s electrified range currently comprises nine electrified vehicles and will be further complemented in 2018 by the all-new BMW i8 Roadster. In addition, when it comes to particulate, hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide emissions emissions, diesels are just as clean or even cleaner than gasoline engines. —Harald Krüger.

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APRIL 29, 2023

The geologists were hunting for major deposits of the minerals needed to power a clean-energy future. We cofounded KoBold in 2018 with backing from Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. That small minority constitutes the bulk of the deposits being mined today.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

The 2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) finds that air quality is the leading environmental threat to public health. Low scores on the EPI are indicative of the need for national sustainability efforts on a number of fronts, especially cleaning up air quality, protecting biodiversity, and reducing GHG emissions, said the researchers.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Excluding hurricanes, of course, Florida doesn’t have sufficient wind power, either onshore or offshore, that, say, states in the US Northeast or Texas have to sustain a wind power industry. However, the Florida state legislature wants to ensure that its nonexistent offshore wind power industry stays nonexistent. Absolutely.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 20, 2024

The agreement with Stellantis is the latest example of California’s ongoing collaboration with vehicle manufacturers that improves public health, reduces climate pollution, and increases consumer options while providing a sure path forward toward a clean vehicle future. FCA’s Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne passed away in 2018.

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JANUARY 21, 2013

Topics included the upcoming introduction of the blue e-motion Golf electric vehicle, sometimes called the e-Golf, near the end of 2013 (early 2014 for the US market), as well as Volkswagen’s goal of achieving 3% of its global sales through plug-in vehicles by 2018. Volkswagen sold 9.07 million vehicles in 2012 to Toyota’s 9.7

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Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. Western Climate Initiative (WCI). Representatives Henry A.

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