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California Energy Commission awards Sierra Northern Railway team nearly $4M to demonstrate hydrogen switching locomotive; H2RAM

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The California Energy Commission has awarded GTI and Sierra Northern Railway nearly $4,000,000 to fund the design, integration, and demonstration of a hydrogen fuel cell switching locomotive to support the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstrations in Rail and Marine Applications at Ports (H2RAM) initiative. —Ted Barnes, Director of R&D at GTI.

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SK invests in Fulcrum BioEnergy to accelerate production of low-carbon fuel from waste

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Fulcrum’s first MSW-to-fuels facility, Sierra BioFuels, located near Reno, Nev. in 2007, Fulcrum has developed a proprietary thermochemical process to convert the organic materials found in MSW to low-carbon drop-in fuels, which can be distributed in the same pipelines as traditional petroleum products. Founded in Pleasanton, Calif.,

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Consumer Reports calls on automakers to drop support for rollback of federal gas mileage standards

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Consumer Reports sent letters and a consumer petition to the leaders of General Motors, Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, Nissan, Subaru, Mazda, Hyundai, Kia, and Mitsubishi, calling on the companies to drop their legal attack against America’s Clean Air Act, and instead support Clean Car standards that help drivers save money on fuel and reduce air pollution.

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EPA finalizes strongest-ever truck rule to save billions in health & fuel costs

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Transportation is the largest-polluting sector in America, and heavy duty vehicles make a disproportionate amount of that pollution. The cost and health savings make these rules a rare win-win-win. Businesses save money on costs (approx. EPA originally stated that the proposed rule would reduce carbon by 1.8

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EPA proposes repeal of Obama Clean Power Plan

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The repeal package includes the “preamble,” which lays out the proposed legal interpretation, policy implications, and a summary of the cost-benefits analysis of the proposed repeal; and the “Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA),” an in-depth cost-benefit technical analysis. Comments should be identified by Docket ID No.

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Ricardo and Growth Energy Collaborate On First Vehicle-Based Demonstration of Ricardos Ethanol Boosted Direct Injection (EBDI) Engine Technology

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For the demonstrators, Ricardo plans to modify two GM Sierra 3500 HD heavy-duty pickup trucks and replace a base 6-liter gasoline V-8 in one with the heavily boosted 3.2-liter The diesel premium is expected to grow to $9,500 by 2013 in order to comply with more stringent air pollution standards. fuel economy improvement.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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May, 2007 : An international team of researchers concluded that the ability of the Southern Ocean to absorb carbon dioxide had slowed by about 15% per decade since 1981 ( earlier post ), and projected that at the present rate of deterioration, it will have lost two-thirds of its ability to store carbon by 2050.

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