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ICCT study assesses infrastructure needed to support near term deployment of zero-emission Class 4-8 vehicles in US

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A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses the near-term charging and refueling infrastructure needs for zero-emission Class 4-8 medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDV) at the national and sub-national levels. The NHFN is projected to comprise 85% of the charging needs from long-haul trucks by 2030.

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Air Products dedicates world’s largest hydrogen plant and pipeline system

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Air Products had operated two hydrogen pipeline systems in Texas and Louisiana before joining them with a new 180-mile segment. billion cubic feet of hydrogen per day to Louisiana and Texas customers. The company announced the pipeline project in 2010 and placed it onstream in August 2012 to begin supply of more than 1.2

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Air Products Creating Largest Hydrogen Pipeline Supply Network; 1B Cubic Feet Per Day

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Air Products plans to construct a new 180-mile long pipeline connecting its existing Louisiana and Texas hydrogen pipeline systems, creating the world’s largest hydrogen plant and pipeline supply network. Once complete, Air Products’ hydrogen pipeline supply network will stretch from the Houston Ship Channel in Texas to New Orleans, La.

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BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

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The findings suggest that developing nations are moving toward cleaner power but not nearly fast enough to limit global CO 2 emissions. The approximately 500 terawatt hours in new coal consumption is roughly equivalent to all the power consumed in Texas in a normal year. thousand terawatt-hours in 2018, up from 6.4 thousand in 2017.

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Air Products to increase supply of H2 to Marathon’s Garyville, La. refinery by 25 MMscf/day

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The new pipeline extension, which is in the project execution phase, will connect Air Products’ Texas hydrogen system to the Louisiana hydrogen system. It will supply the Louisiana and Texas refinery and petrochemical industries with over one billion cubic feet of hydrogen per day.

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How Self-Driving Cars Will Accelerate Electric Vehicle Adoption

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In the future, autonomous vehicles and battery-powered technology could work together to create cleaner, more efficient roads. For the most part, they look, sound and act like a traditional car, but there’s one major difference: their engines run on batteries and not on internal combustion powered by fossil fuels.

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Shell to build LNG units in Gulf Coast and Great Lakes regions; two additional LNG for transport corridors in North America

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Once operational, this unit will supply LNG along the Mississippi River, the Intra-Coastal Waterway and to the offshore Gulf of Mexico and the onshore oil and gas exploration areas of Texas and Louisiana. Image courtesy of Harvey Gulf International Marine. MRMC and its publicly traded affiliate, Martin Midstream Partners L.P.