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ICCT: US domestic airlines show modest improvement in fuel efficiency since 2010, top performers Alaska and Spirit widen lead

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Alaska Airlines had the most efficient US domestic operations in both 2011 and 2012, the same position it occupied in a 2010 benchmark assessment published by the ICCT last year. Other notable carriers in the study included Southwest and United, which both went through corporate mergers during the period covered. Earlier post.)

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TransCanada and ExxonMobil To Work Together on Alaska Gas Pipeline

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TransCanada Corporation and ExxonMobil have reached an agreement to work together on an Alaska gas pipeline. The project has an initial forecasted capital cost of US$26 billion. In November 2007, TransCanada Alaska and Foothills jointly submitted an application under the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) to build a 4.5

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Five Dead, Two In Critical Condition From Fire at Tesoro Refinery

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Tesoro Corporation is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products. Tesoro’s Anacortes refinery is located about 70 miles north of Seattle on the Puget Sound. It receives crude feedstock via pipeline from western Canada and by tanker from Alaska and foreign sources. compared with Europe’s at 6.5.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities will receive funding to purchase battery electric buses, associated charging infrastructure and a back-up generator to maintain bus service in a disaster situation. Delaware Transit Corporation.

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