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11 more GM facilities worldwide go landfill-free; total up to 122

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Colmotores Assembly (Colombia). Colmotores Assembly in Colombia launched awareness campaigns that engaged employees in reducing waste and sorting it correctly. The Grand Rapids site also works with a partner that processes wastewater treatment sludge into a fuel source for the building materials industry.

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Eaton signs long-term agreement with Argentine bus manufacturer TATSA to design and supply hybrid systems

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Eaton Corporation has signed a long-term agreement to design and supply Argentine bus manufacturer Tecnología Avanzada en Transporte S. Since 2005, the company has been building commercial vehicles at a plant in San Martin, Buenos Aires, and this year will start production in a new plant located in Maldonado, Uruguay.

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Petrobras Biocombustível To Invest US$2.4B in Biodiesel and Ethanol Production

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To achieve that goal, Petrobras anticipates building a new plant in Northern Brazil; the Candeias (state of Bahia) plant will be duplicated; and the experimental plants in Guamaré, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, will be adapted for commercial production. Abroad, meanwhile, an ethanol production unit is under analysis for Colombia.

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MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

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Renewables as baseload power, firmed by natural gas generation, will require new regulatory structures to ensure reliability of the system and incentivize the building of flexible gas capacity. The report issued this week is a preliminary overview of a more detailed report that will be released later this year.

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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Military personnel from Colombia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Republic of Philippines, Thailand, Tonga and the United Kingdom will also participate. Simultaneously, we are building the plant in Hawaii with the help of the DOE grant.

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Shell and Sumitomo Corporation invest in LO3 Energy to develop blockchain-based community energy platform

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Shell Ventures and Sumitomo Corporation Group have invested in LO3 Energy to support the global development of its blockchain-based community energy networks. —LO3 Energy CEO Lawrence Orsini.