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UK government launches new clean air strategy; ending sales of conventional diesel and gasoline LDVs by 2040

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The European Commission is taking the UK to court—along with Germany, France, Italy, Romania, and Hungary—over its long-standing failure to meet EU limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO?). It sets out the comprehensive action required across all parts of government to improve air quality. billion (US$4.7-billion)

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EEA report finds more action needed to protect Europe’s most vulnerable citizens from air pollution, noise and extreme temperatures

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In parts of Europe a large number of people are unable to keep their homes adequately warm because of poor-quality housing and the price of energy. A ban on certain domestic heating fuels, such as coal, also leads to improved air quality in low-income zones. KEY FINDINGS. Air and noise pollution.

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Uhde Gasification Selected for Commercial Biomass-to-Methanol Plant in Sweden

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VärmlandsMetanol AB has selected Uhde, a ThyssenKrupp company, as technology supplier and engineering partner for a biomass-to-methanol plant in Hagfors, Sweden, with an annual production of 100,000 tonnes of fuel-grade methanol from forest-residue biomass. In a 2005 paper published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , Yin et al.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

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Peter Kovalev/TASS/Getty Images So how did Europe become addicted to Russian fossil fuels, particularly natural gas? The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. Certification of the €9.5 Consumption of E.U.-produced

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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In part because large reactors can be expensive and delay-prone. NuScale has plans to build a US plant in Idaho by 2030; the company is involved in the UK , Poland , and Romania as well. The result, called Part 53 , is slated to become an option for SMR developers by 2027, though White says it may open up as early as 2025.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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The company went on to design and manufacture mobile-phone handsets and parts for Motorola ( MOT , Fortune 500 ), Nokia ( NOK ), Sony Ericsson, and Samsung. Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania. tons of carbon dioxide.

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