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Gevo’s isobutanol receives EPA fuel registration

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has received notification that its isobutanol has successfully cleared registration with the US EPA as a fuel additive. Gevo’s isobutanol is the first isobutanol to be listed in the EPA’s Fuel Registration Directory and is now approved for blending with gasoline. Patrick Gruber.

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Winners of 2012 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge

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and Jim Jones, Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced the winners of the 2012 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. Shakhashiri, Ph.D., Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., of Bolingbrook, Ill., Buckman International Inc.,

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Road Test: 2022 Kia Niro Plug-in Hybrid

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The EPA 46 MPG Is Only the Start. One of the challenges Clean Fleet Report takes seriously is to test the EPA fuel economy ratings for the cars, crossovers and trucks we review, knowing efficiency is a top priority when looking to purchase a new vehicle. Clean Design. Clean–and stylish. The hybrid system’s 8.9-kilowatt-hour

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Major spill from the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline in Arkansas

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) categorizes the incident as a “major spill”—i.e., Emergency response efforts are focused on ensuring the safety of the community members and the response workers, addressing community concerns and the clean-up process. greater than 250 barrels (10,500 gallons). wt% sulfur content (i.e.,

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DOE’s Manufacturing Institute to award $35M to support R&D in recycling, reuse and remanufacturing

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The overall goal of this project is the development and application of a software plug-in to enable the design of components that will satisfy both EPA standards-driven light weighting efforts and parametric feature designs that enable remanufacturability (e.g., A process model will be populated by the cleaning data.

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DOE issues $10M incubator FOA for batteries, power electronics, engines, materials, fuels and lubricants

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long term clean energy goals for the US, and in that context has established multi?year Temperature Combustion (LTC), (2) Dilute Gasoline Combustion, and (3) Clean Diesel Combustion. burn systems and controls that allow compliance with proposed EPA Tier 3 emissions regulations with smaller penalty in fuel economy. defined mid?to?long

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Road Test: 2023 Genesis GV60 EV

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This is saying something, as she has ridden in or driven many of the 800+ cars I have reviewed for Clean Fleet Report over the past 10 years. Clean Fleet Report has been impressed with all Genesis models. kilowatt-hour (kWh) lithium-ion polymer battery. EPA at 235 miles. So Genesis, you did a great job.