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Cleveland Schools replacing 49 diesel buses with propane

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Cleveland Schools, Ohio’s second largest school district, is replacing 49 12-to-13-year-old diesel buses with Blue Bird’s Propane Vision buses. The new fleet of autogas buses will emit about 4 million fewer pounds of carbon dioxide into the environment over their lifetime. The buses are being delivered over the next two weeks.

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Editorial: Why U.S. Metal bidding warfare is a reason why to worry

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Cleveland-Cliffs stated car consumers made up 31 % of its income in 2022, up from 25 % in 2021. Metal and Cleveland-Cliffs additionally would personal 100% of home iron ore reserves, elevating chance of intervention by means of antitrust regulators. In 2022, U.S. 25 million lots. A blended U.S. And it’s U.S. A merger of U.S.

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NASA moves Environmentally Responsible Aviation project into next phase of research with 8 large-scale technology demonstrations

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NASA has selected eight large-scale integrated technology demonstrations to advance aircraft concepts and technologies for reducing the impact of aviation on the environment over the next 30 years. We have made a lot of progress in our research toward very quiet aircraft with low carbon footprints.

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NASA begins ACCESS flight research to study effects of biojet fuels on engine performance, emissions and contrails

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Investigate the role of black carbon concentrations and properties and fuel sulfur in regulating contrail formation and the microphysical properties of the ice particles. Survey black carbon and gas-phase emissions and contrail properties from commercial aircraft at cruise in air-traffic corridors.

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Space station droplet combustion experiments reveal cool-burning flames; potential to lead to better engines

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atm and ambient environments containing oxygen and nitrogen were diluted with both carbon dioxide and helium. The cool flames occurred in a wide range of environments, including air similar to the earth’s atmosphere and atmospheres diluted with nitrogen, carbon dioxide and helium. ambient pressures between 0.7

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EPA announces 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards; green chemistry market opportunity projected to be $98.5B by 2020, about 2% of total market

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Also, the biobased BDO pathway consumes carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), resulting in a reduction of 70% in CO 2 emissions. Furthermore, the Bio-BDO fermentation process operates near ambient pressure and temperature, thus providing a safer working environment. Designing greener chemicals: The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, Ohio.

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

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Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. Enhanced Biomimetic Three-Dimensional Nanoporous Gyroid Membrane for High Efficiency Carbon Dioxide Absorption, $250,000. Bunting-Dubois (Dubois, Pennsylvania).