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UC Davis Names Chevron Chair in Energy Efficiency

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The University of California, Davis announced the appointment of Professor Nicole Woolsey Biggart of the university’s Graduate School of Management to the Chevron Chair in Energy Efficiency. Chevron Corp. Professor Biggart joined the UC Davis Graduate School of Management in 1981, and she was awarded the Jerome J.

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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

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The following projects were selected under Topic 1a: Novel Bio-Based Plastics: Designing Highly Recyclable or Biodegradable Bio-Based Plastics: Iowa State University (Ames, IA) - Trojan Horse Repeat Sequences for Triggered Chemical Recycling of Polyesters for Films and Bottles – DOE funding: $2,165,000.

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

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The National Hydrogen Association (members include Chevron, GM, Shell, Toyota, Honda, CARB and UC Davis), the California Hydrogen Business Council, and the US Fuel Cell Council are not happy with Chu’s cuts. But their dreams haven’t yet been sunk.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. Grant Davis is a Managing Director at New York Life Investments. Davis gives the following synopsis: ” In 4Q 2008 the markets were frozen.

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California ARB staff hosting first meeting of Low Carbon Fuel Standard advisory panel

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Lindle Hatton, California State University, Sacramento, Facilitator. James Uihlein, Chevron Corporation. Sonia Yeh, University of California, Davis. Low Carbon Fuel Standard Advisory Panel Members. Chairs and Facilitator. Richard Corey, Air Resources Board, Panel Chair. Panel Members. Dwight Stevenson, Tesoro Corporation.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Id like to be a fly on the wall when an H2 franchisee asks to put in a hydrogen pump at Chevron. The reality is that those ships in our harbors…yeah…those are the real polluters – (University of Colorado at Boulder (2009, February 27). The bottleneck is infrastructure. forgot.water and electricity dont mix well.