Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $35 million in funding for twelve projects focused on developing technologies to reduce methane emissions in the oil, gas, and coal industries. University of Minnesota will use plasma-assisted combustion to enhance flare methane destruction efficiency. Methane from Coal Mine Shafts.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 9, 2016

In North America, an electric car charged on even the dirtiest, most coal-intensive electric grid in the nation. It's a very reasonable question: electric cars themselves have no tailpipe emissions, but what about the power plants used to recharge them?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2015

UC Berkeley chemists have developed a new material that can efficiently capture CO 2 and then release it at lower temperatures than current carbon-capture materials, potentially cutting by half or more the energy currently consumed in the process. The diamine-appended metal-organic framework before and after binding of carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). of all three fuels, but emits more black carbon (15 mg mi ?1

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2014

The new EPA proposed carbon pollution standard and the forth-coming proposed rule on existing coal-fired power (due out in 2014) could have a significant impact on national emissions and eliminate some of the potential emissions increases associated with vehicle charging.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2016

A US-wide county-level study comparing lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from several light-duty passenger gasoline and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has found that PEVs can have larger or smaller carbon footprints than gasoline vehicles depending on regional factors and the specific vehicle models being compared.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2011

Developing fuels that are truly carbon-neutral is not yet within reach, but progress is being made. On the technology front, there is much continued interest in further reducing traditional emissions as well as reducing GHG emissions, improving fuel efficiency, thereby helping reduce the carbon footprint from the transportation sector.

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Fuel Vehicles Emissions Oil-Sands 170

Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

If an EV is charged with electricity that is produced by burning fossil fuel such as coal or natural gas, there are still greenhouse gas emissions associated with running the vehicle. Sourcewell, a Minnesota-based agency, has pre-vetted and pre-negotiated competitive pricing for electric vehicle charging stations and services.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2012

Robert Blanchette, University of Minnesota) Click to enlarge. Coal deposits—the fossilized remains of plants—were formed during a 60-million year period from around 360 to 300 million years ago. Once you have white rot you can break down lignin, the major precursor of coal. Punctularia strigoso-zonata.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Kerry (D-Mass.)

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2011

They’re not only not fighting them, they’re wrapping their coal dusted arms around it. The other, Congressman Collin Peterson , comes from the once progressive state of Minnesota, now more famous as the home of the Tea Party Princess, Michele Bachmann.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2011

They’re not only not fighting them, they’re wrapping their coal dusted arms around it. The other, Congressman Collin Peterson , comes from the once progressive state of Minnesota, now more famous as the home of the Tea Party Princess, Michele Bachmann. Peterson says he wants to “rein in the EPA.”

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. The fight over how to fairly implement EV charging networks in Minnesota is another example of the tricky politics PUCs are involved with.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 8, 2024

Presidential candidate Kamala Harris announced her VP pick this week in Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who has recently passed laws supporting Minnesota’s transition to carbon-free power and lower tailpipe emissions. But much more action was taken during his time in Minnesota than we’ve covered here. Democratic U.S.

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