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EPA announces 2016 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners

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The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners were honored at a ceremony in Portland, Ore. It is commercially successful, with contracts for almost 30 billion pounds of product and a 50 million pounds per year expansion plant that is already sold out. on 13 June. Dow AgroSciences, LLC of Indianapolis, Ind.

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UC Riverside team developing nav system that uses signals of opportunity; support for autonomous vehicles

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Led by Zak Kassas, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering, the team presented its research at the 2016 Institute of Navigation Global Navigation Satellite System Conference (ION GNSS+), in Portland, Ore., in September. Morales, Paul F. Roysdon, and Zaher M.

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THINK Releases US EV-Ready Cities Index

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The THINK EV-Ready Cities Index was presented by THINK CEO Richard Canny at the Electric Drive Transportation Association Annual Conference and Meeting at the Washington Auto Show. San Diego, Portland and Sacramento were rated fifth, sixth and seventh putting four cities in California in the top-15 index. Los Angeles. San Francisco.

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Four Benefits of EV Charging for Hospitality

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Albany, NY with 56.8%, and Portland, OR with 56.3% If your hotel or resort also offers valet parking or offers a conference center, you may have guests who would like a faster charge. There are also numerous state and local funding programs that you can search using Blink’s Commercial Incentives search tool.

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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

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At a renewable energy conference in February of this year Doug Berven, the director of Corporate Affairs at ethanol producer POET, shared the following capacity projections for the ethanol business: At the beginning of this year the industry had 12.1 All of these issues are contributing to excess capacity in the industry. Earlier post.).

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"Spirit of DC" PHEV All Around America Update. from EVJerry back in DC with the "Spirit" Hanging out at the Beach!

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Conferring with Amtrak on "Spirit's" Auto Train Return from Sanford, Florida. Note: the Green Train leave on its six week venture from Portland and is en route to DC. DPS is building commercial battery packs from smart universal battery modules ("UBM(TM)") as building block. Setting up PHEV3A Committee Open Planning Sessions.

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