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Chicago Area Clean Cities names American Lung Association 2017 Clean Fuels Champion

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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. Air pollution poses a serious threat to our nation’s health.

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DOE awards $3.6M to High Performance Computing projects in manufacturing, materials and mobility

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Dow Chemical Company will partner with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to model how flow in plastic impacts polymers at a molecular level in a project titled “Non-equilibrium Molecular Simulations of Polymers under Flow: Saving Energy through Process Optimization.”. Praxair Inc., a member of the Linde group - Praxair, Inc.

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ARCADIS Sustainable Cities Index: US cities held back by transportation, environmental factors

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The largest US cities—New York, Los Angeles and Chicago—score best in economic factors but are hindered by poor transportation infrastructure, lack of green spaces and diminishing affordable housing, according to the inaugural Sustainable Cities Index by ARCADIS, a leading global natural and built asset design and consultancy firm.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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The vehicles and infrastructure being funded include the use of natural and renewable gas, propane, ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hybrid technologies. City of Chicago, Department of Environment’s Chicago Area Alternative Fuels Deployment Project. Total DOE award: $14,999,905. Total DOE award: $14,994,183.

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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

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The anaerobic digester is fed the waste from the distillation process and the wastes from 2,000 dairy cattle and 10,000 beef cattle being raised on the site. Madson identified several ethanol plants that were built in industrial settings that were able to use the waste heat, i.e. from an adjacent refinery, to produce their ethanol.

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Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages

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We make products that happen to use renewable sources of energy as opposed to connecting to the grid for the primary source of energy. Charged : For example, one of your customers has a site where they’re not allowed to do any digging because of hazardous waste. I like Beam much better—a beam of energy, the structural beam.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. “The more fluctuating energy you have from renewables, the more it makes sense to have a smart grid,&# said Markus Ewert from the new technologies team of German utility E.ON Environmentalists see another advantage to local entities ? .

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