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UPS makes largest purchase of renewable natural gas yet in the US: 170M gallon equivalents over 7 years

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Since RNG is supported by existing national infrastructure used to transport natural gas, it’s a winning solution that will help UPS to reach our ambitious sustainability goals. This is equivalent to planting 17,000,000 trees, removing 228,000 cars off the road or recycling 374,000 tons of waste that would otherwise be sent to the landfill.

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New recycling solution introduced to treat Marcellus Shale flowback frac water

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A new joint partnership between Casella Waste Systems, Inc. Albuquerque, NM, is seeking to provide a solution to the environmental issues surrounding the treatment of mineral?laden Altela announced that this is the first of many facilities planned throughout the Northeast to combine the synergies of landfill waste energy with Altela’s.

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A closer look at why heat pumps are dominating EV HVAC systems

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with a resistor) to actively transporting heat from a colder location to a warmer one with a device called, appropriately enough, a heat pump (note, however, that it takes work to oppose the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that heat naturally flows from hotter to colder locations).

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DOE Awards Up to $6.9M to Nine Projects for Shale Gas and Coalbed Methane Production

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The objective of this project is to develop a modeling system that will allow operators and regulators to plan all aspects of water management associated with shale gas development, including water supply, transport, storage, use, recycling, and disposal. Albuquerque, N.M. Altela Inc., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Porous Transport Electrodes for Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers, $450,000. Additive Manufacturing of Carbon-Carbon Composites with Tailored Thermal Transport Properties, $1,349,659. Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000.