Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2023

Aqua Metals believes this advance makes it the first fully operational lithium battery recycler using advanced electro-hydrometallurgy—replacing polluting furnaces and intensive chemicals typical of recycling with electricity to separate the critical metals from spent lithium batteries. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2011

The FY 2011-2012 plan focused primarily on five areas of interest: sustainable communities; behavior and technology adoption; health and air pollution exposures; air pollution science; and greenhouse gas targets.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2016

More than 80% of people living in urban areas that monitor air pollution are exposed to air quality levels that exceed World Health Organization (WHO) limits, according to the organization. Global urban air pollution trends. While all regions of the world are affected, populations in low-income cities are the most impacted.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

The renewable natural gas from that digestion facility is already being used to fuel about 400 waste hauling trucks. Renewable natural gas is a carbon-negative fuel produced from waste and agriculture that can be used in trucks and buses, to generate electricity, fuel heating systems in homes and businesses, and for cooking.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 22, 2023

billion for violating the Clean Air Act. But said those same devices allowed the vehicles increased performance during regular use — increasing pollution and violating the Clean Air Act. While we are a far cry from claiming that diesels are clean, the issue is more nuanced than many would have you believe.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2021

The locomotive will show the potential of hydrogen fuel-cell technology to reduce transportation air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To build the locomotive and demonstrate its operations in a real-world environment. Sierra Northern Railway is the freight division of privately-owned, Sierra Railroad Company.

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Sierra Hydrogen California Energy 357

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Aggregated damage costs by pollutant. Air pollution from the 10,000 largest polluting facilities in Europe cost citizens between €102–169 billion (US$135–224 billion) in 2009, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) which analyzed the costs of harm to health and the environment caused by air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

WHO estimated in 2012 that 26% of childhood deaths and 25% of the total disease burden in children under five could be prevented through the reduction of environmental risks such as air pollution, unsafe water, sanitation and inadequate hygiene or chemicals. —“Don’t Pollute My Future”. The report, Don’t pollute my future!

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2019

Oberon Fuels, a producer of clean-burning dimethyl ether (DME) transportation fuel ( earlier post ), has been awarded a grant for $2,876,139 from the California Energy Commission (CEC) for a first-of-its-kind, multi-phase project to produce the first renewable dimethyl ether (rDME), a clean-burning, ultra-low-carbon transportation fuel, in the US.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

Currently, the global supply chain for these elements relies heavily on dated extraction processes that are energy-intensive, consume a lot of water, and create toxic waste. The clean, non-polluting technology could also be used for recovery of other critical materials. —Pete McGrail.

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New Zealand Water Corporation Canada 403

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

The project will build and install diesel-fueled two-stroke compression-ignition Achates Power Opposed-Piston Engines into Class 8 demonstration trucks that will be road-road ready in 2019 and operate in fleet service in California in 2020. Earlier post.). At least 35% of these investments are made in disadvantaged and low-income communities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2014

Air quality in most cities worldwide that monitor outdoor (ambient) air pollution fails to meet World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for safe levels, putting people at additional risk of respiratory disease and other health problems, according to WHO’s expanded ambient (outdoor) air pollution (AAP) in cities database 2014.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2021

There is renewed interest in the use of hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel, for turbine-based electricity generation. Waste plastics could be added to the fuel mix to produce large quantities of hydrogen and to mitigate the impact of plastics in the environment.

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Hydrogen Fuel Gas-Electric Gas 382

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each. Details of the 28 companies awarded a total of $4.2

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2009

a Fischer-Tropsch process company, plans to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. Product gas is cleaned in a scrubber. The Rentech Process is based on Fischer-Tropsch chemistry. Click to enlarge. Rentech, Inc. , Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

MARCH 4, 2022

More than 400 ancillary provisions are included, involving topics such as requirements for groundwater protection as well as water-saving and wastewater-reducing measures, species protection measures, limit values for air pollutants and regulations on their measurement as well as occupational safety requirements.

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Tesla Water Pollution Germany 98

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Geographical distribution of Clean Cities Recovery Act awards. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 25 cost-share projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative.

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Alternative Fuels Clean Cleaning Grant 236

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2017

The plan builds on the state’s efforts to reduce emissions and outlines the most effective ways to reach the 2030 goal, including continuing California’s Cap-and-Trade Program. Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Reduction Strategy. Earlier post.) The major elements of the framework proposed in this new Scoping Plan are: SB350.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Toops noted that the unique ORNL formulation builds on previous work by colleagues Andrew Binder and Sheng Dai, who varied the composition of the three catalyst components in search of improved oxidation activity under simple conditions. —Todd Toops of ORNL’s Energy and Transportation Science Division.

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Exhaust Low Cost Pollution Emissions 150

Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Here in New York City, where we have a population density that supports a mass transit system, most of our fossil fuel use is to power our buildings. But any look at our total energy use, its growth, and centrality to modern life argue for building as many different sources of renewable energy as possible.

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Renewable Energy Fuel New York City 98

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

North American leaders followed suit with their own joint proposal, which builds on the islands’ submission. With indoor air pollution killing 1.6 Biochar comes from cooking biomass waste at low temperatures with minimal oxygen (pyrolysis). Ramanathan. Tropospheric ozone. It also lowers crop yields.

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Climate Change Climate Pollution Ozone 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2012

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners have launched a new initiative that aims to reduce pollution levels, improve resource efficiency and reduce infrastructure costs in cities across the world. Up to 80% of the world population is expected to reside in cities by 2050.

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Transportation Global Brazil Waste 236

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

billion in categorical grants for states that are implementing environmental statutes such as the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. 2 billion for Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving funds (SRFs). FY 2013 budget highlights include: $1.2

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Get Electric Vehicle

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Yes, They Are Greener But… On the surface, EVs are more ecological than gasoline cars because 70-80% of the pollution caused by automobiles comes from their tailpipe and EVs don’t have tailpipe emissions. EV Supply chain and Pollution. The pollution goes beyond tailpipe emissions. The Weight Dynamics.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Created by the non-profit US Green Building Council (USGBC), it is recognized worldwide. It gives projects points for environmentally conscious design and building features. For example, if someone wanted a building to be as environmentally conscious as possible, they may try to get the highest tier of LEED certification.

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Charging Climate Change Tax Building 76

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

A key deliverable is to explore optimal ways to maximize how non-edible biomass resources such as microalgae, urban waste and residues from agricultural crops can be converted into biofuels and other useful products, according to Associate Professor Jeffrey Obbard from NUS, program manager for the seven projects.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The field included startups that aim to improve battery technology and solve the battery materials problem, coordinate energy flow from home and car batteries to the grid and back again, gather and use data for energy and carbon management, improve solar cell efficiency, and recycle agricultural waste. It’s challenging in the energy field.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Ambient or low grade waste heat is used as an energy source with the cryogen providing both the working fluid and heat sink. This is another important milestone as we develop our revolutionary clean cold and power technology. They are generally diesel-powered and can be up to 29 times more polluting than modern, Euro VI, truck engines.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. These four-year awards support 27 institutions in 18 eligible jurisdictions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings. Transportation. —Draft Scoping Plan Update.

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Transportation Emissions California Ozone 273

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Weather observations such as wind speed and direction (with other evidence) allowed researchers to identify plumes of polluted air from the Beijing urban area and population centers to the south, as opposed to relatively clean air arriving from the north. The combustion of outmoded industrial processes can fall somewhere in the middle.

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CO2 Climate Change China Universal 199

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

Clean cars from a clean factory and an attitude to the environment that aims to change the way of people’s thinking. 25% less energy and water consumption, waste and emissions. the US subsidiary of Phoenix Solar AG , provided engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services in building the solar park.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

These technologies include, but are not limited to, advanced aftertreatment and waste heat recovery; lean-burn plus lean-NO x emissions traps; integration of zero-emission miles technologies; further refinements in reducing friction and parasitic energy losses; and widespread utilization of renewable and natural gas and hydrogen blends.

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Climate Gas Emissions California 257

Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 28, 2021

Try to avoid using your car as a storage container, and don’t let clutter build up. Try to clean out your car once a week, and make it a habit to take everything out of your car that you bring in. However, idling is a huge waste of fuel and money. It unnecessarily burns fuel your car should only use in order to move.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

An international study of 10 global cities found that a balance of geophysical factors (climate, access to resources, and gateway status) and technical factors (power generation, urban design, and waste processing) determine the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) attributable to cities. t e CO 2 /cap.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2009

Results showed that butanol mixed with diesel can reduce emissions of criteria pollutants. Diesel Brewing’s process gasifies wood wastes, agricultural residues and manure into a syngas that is cleaned and fed into a catalytic reactor and purification system to generate a suite of alcohols containing butanol, ethanol and methanol.

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