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The Boring Company In Talks With Austin & San Antonio To Build Tunnels

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The Boring Company has some big plans for Austin, KXAN reports. KXAN confirmed that The Boring Company met with the City of Austin about a possible underground transportation tunnel that would go from Giga Texas to Downtown Austin.

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Electrify America’s Newest Stations Are Awesome!

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On a recent road trip, I stopped in San Antonio for some juice. The Electrify America station I stopped at had recently been down for some upgrades, and it now has the company’s newest station design up and running. You can learn all about the new design here, but reading a press release and/or some […].

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Diamond Green Diesel to boost renewable diesel capacity to 1.2B gallons/year; $1.45B expansion project

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Darling and Valero jointly announced that their 50/50 joint venture, Diamond Green Diesel (DGD), has received approval from both companies’ Boards of Directors to proceed with the construction of the renewable diesel production facility to be located at Valero’s Port Arthur, Texas refinery. The US restaurant industry generates an estimated 2.3

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SwRI to launch 7th clean diesel engine consortium

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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is launching Clean High-Efficiency Diesel Engine VII (CHEDE-VII), the seventh phase of the industry’s longest-running diesel research consortium. Consortium membership allows companies to share costs and access more research than would be feasible if funded individually.

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SwRI to launch 2nd phase of Advanced Combustion Catalyst and Aftertreatment Technologies consortium

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at SwRI’s headquarters in San Antonio and is open to interested automotive industry manufacturers. The completion of the first four-year consortium AC 2 AT PAC meeting is scheduled for 14 November at SwRI in San Antonio, TX. The AC2AT-II kickoff meeting will be 15 Nov. Earlier post.)

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UPS makes largest purchase of renewable natural gas yet in the US: 170M gallon equivalents over 7 years

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UPS announced an agreement with Clean Energy Fuels Corp. This is the largest commitment for use of RNG to date by any company in the United States, with a range of 22.5 - 25 million gallon equivalents per year. Salt Lake City, Utah; San Antonio, Texas; Shreveport, La.; Clean Energy, co-founded by T. Omaha, Neb.;

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Clean Energy unveils LNG backbone network for America’s Natural Gas Highway; 150 LNG stations by end of 2013

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Clean Energy Fuels Corp., The company has identified 98 locations and anticipates having 70 stations open by the end of 2012 in 33 states. Major highway segments planned for early opening include, among others, those linking San Diego-Los Angeles-Riverside-Las Vegas; the Texas Triangle (Houston-San Antonio-Dallas/Ft.

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