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Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 8, 2017
The American Lung Association has been named the 2017 Clean Fuels Champion by Chicago Area Clean Cities (CACC), a nonprofit coalition dedicated to promoting clean-energy and clean-air solutions for transportation in the Chicago area impacting nearly 9 million people. —Harold P.
Teslarati
JULY 26, 2023
The Starfire Mine, Kentucky, was once one of the largest coal mines in the United States. ” Rivian showroom to open in luxury Chicago neighborhood Once complete, the Starfire coal mine will be the BrightNight Starfire Renewable Energy Center. Rivian plans to convert the Starfire Mine in Kentucky to a solar energy center.
Green Car Congress
JULY 18, 2018
The Oleo Sponge, a patent-pending technology to clean oil spills invented at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, performed successfully in an experiment conducted off the coast of Southern California. Darling and a team of scientists started out with common polyurethane foam, the kind used in furniture cushions.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
In a speech at the National Press Club, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that the success of China and other countries in clean energy industries represents a new “Sputnik Moment” for the United States, and will require a similar mobilization of innovation to enable the US to compete in the global race for the jobs of the future.
Green Car Congress
MAY 14, 2010
The US Department of Energy has selected 7 projects to participate in the University Coal Research (UCR) program. The projects aim to improve the basic understanding of the chemical and physical processes that govern coal conversion and utilization, by-product utilization, and technological development for advanced energy systems.
Green Car Congress
JULY 29, 2020
Produced by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), the AQLI is based on frontier research by EPIC’s director Michael Greenstone that quantified the causal relationship between human exposure to air pollution and reduced life expectancy. —Michael Greenstone. China began a “war against pollution” in 2013.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 14, 2009
DME is synthesized from methanol, whether produced from coal, natural gas or biomass such as harvested forestry wastes. Addressing methanol marketers at the conference, LeBlanc noted that converting methanol into DME offers the methanol industry a new market for its product. Chemrec is currently building BioDME production plants in Sweden.
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