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Canada and California to work together on cleaner transportation

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Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and the Chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, today signed a new cooperation agreement to advance cleaner vehicles and fuels. To date, California has invested $820 million in incentives for zero-emission and plug-in vehicles.

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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

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The California legislature is considering a bill that would require most EVs sold in the state to be bidirectional-capable by 2027. During the recent California heat wave, Nuvve helped to reduce peak demands on the grid through the Emergency Load Reduction Program, using bidirectional-capable school buses to feed energy back to the grid.

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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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The full list of projects selected for 2014 DERA funds: California. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is retrofitting 36 school buses with technologies to cut soot and reduce idling. Delaware River and Bay Authority is repowering two Tier 0 marine propulsion engines in one vessel with Tier 3 engines.

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DOE FCTO selects 11 fuel cell incubator projects for up to $10M in awards; exploring alkaline exchange membrane FCs

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An alternative is the alkaline environment of the AEMFC. Center for Transportation and the Environment. University of California, Irvine. University of Delaware. The primary advantage of AMFCs compared to traditional PEMFCs is their ability to perform efficiently and durably with non-PGM catalysts.

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$112.5M awarded to research consortia studying effects of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf of Mexico

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These teams will investigate the fate of petroleum in the environment; the impacts of the spill; and the development of new tools and technology for responding to future spills and improving mitigation and restoration. Project Title: Consortium for Advanced Research of Hydrocarbon Transport in the Environment (CARTHE).

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. ACP looked at other ways of marketing its technology and saw an opportunity in the California electricity crisis then unfolding.

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DOE Selects 8 Projects to Advance Technologies for the Co-Production of Power and Hydrogen, Fuels or Chemicals from Coal-Biomass Feedstocks

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and the University of North Dakota Energy and Environment Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D., VPI, teaming with the University of Delaware Energy Institute in Newark, Del., University of California Irvine (Irvine, Calif.) CoalTek, teaming with the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research in Lexington, Ky.,

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