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Cleveland-Cliffs completes successful blast furnace hydrogen injection trial at Middletown Works

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Cleveland-Cliffs has successfully completed a hydrogen injection trial at its Middletown Works blast furnace. The hydrogen was delivered to the Middletown facility via the existing pipeline and transportation infrastructure in place for the facility’s other hydrogen uses, including for its annealing furnaces.

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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

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Cleveland, Ohio, has approved new zoning and transportation policies that are angling to transform it into the next “fifteen-minute city,” The City Planning Commission voted to move forward with changes to building codes in several pilot neighborhoods it wants to make more pedestrian friendly.

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Laketran Unveils Ohio’s First Battery Electric Bus Lines By Honoring A Cleveland Transit Pioneer

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230,000) just northeast of Cleveland — opened the doors on a new facility. Earlier this year, Laketran — the transit agency serving Lake County, Ohio (pop. The Frank Polivka Transit Center is the state’s first electric bus charging facility. It houses six ABB E-mobility 450 kW chargers used to charge 10 New Flyer Xcelsior CHARGE […].

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Cleveland Schools replacing 49 diesel buses with propane

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Cleveland Schools, Ohio’s second largest school district, is replacing 49 12-to-13-year-old diesel buses with Blue Bird’s Propane Vision buses. Autogas infrastructure is less expensive to install than all other conventional and alternative transportation fuels. On average, autogas costs up to 50% less than diesel.

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APTA: public transportation ridership up 5% in first quarter 2012

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Public transportation ridership rose 5% to nearly 2.7 billion trips in the first quarter of 2012 over the first quarter of last year, according to a report by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). and Cleveland, OH (7.8%). This was the fifth consecutive quarter of US public transit ridership increase, as 125.7

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APTA reports record public transportation usage in US in 2013; growth outpacing population and VMT growth

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billion trips on public transportation—the highest annual public transit ridership number in 57 years— according to a report released by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). This was the eighth year in a row that more than 10 billion trips were taken on public transportation systems nationwide.

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Ohio DOT to award EVgo & partners $13.8M for 20 fast charging stations along interstate corridors

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EVgo announced that the company and its eXtend partners were selected by DriveOhio, a division of the Ohio Department of Transportation, for proposed awards of $13.8M EVgo’s most recently opened station in the state in Beachwood—just outside Cleveland—offers EV drivers four fast charging stalls with speeds up to 350kW.

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