Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2023

Animated movie of the Kotug E-Pusher type M Pushers and barges are essential, efficient methods of delivering goods by water from Dutch ports to the Netherlands and beyond. Cargill is the first company to put into operation fully electrified pusher and barges for inland shipping, eliminating both emissions and noise pollution.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

The DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and its licensee Moselle Technologies , have won two Cooperative Research and Development Awards (CRADA) and a 2021 DOE Advanced Manufacturing Office award to advance the process of using magnetic nanoparticles for capturing strategically important elements from water sources.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2022

Element 1 Corporation (e1NA), Zhejiang Methanol Hydrogen Technology (ZMHT) and Zhejiang Element 1 (e1China) have formed a joint venture company—Zhejiang Hydrogen One Energy Technology Co., e1China, an affiliate company of e1NA will have a 20% ownership interest in the JV. Element 1 L/M-Series Hydrogen Generator.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2021

According to the R&D engineer of this project, hydrogen fuel cell construction vehicles have five important advantages: The realization of zero pollution with only water and heat being discharged. The latter is the first hydrogen-powered mixer truck in the world.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

A recent study also indicates that increases in particulate pollution is associated with higher death rates among COVID-19 patients. In California, the transportation sector accounts for nearly 80% of the state’s air pollution and more than 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 11, 2022

The kind of justice I believe in does not give “them that’s got” an uninterrupted pipeline to keep profiting from pollution. That’s granting the workers who pocketed great salaries and benefits, while filling our air and water with toxic waste, a free pass from taking any responsibility for their actions. That ain’t justice.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

We are not trying to treat the entire hydrocarbon [oil] content in the water—to turn it into carbon dioxide and water—but we are converting it into a form that can be retained by sand filtration, which is a conventional and economical process. Water from mining of oil sands and oil shale.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2020

The company has been investing in the next generation of battery technology through its German subsidiary Blackstone Technology GmbH. These electrodes were created using environmentally friendly, water-based binder systems. This enables the energy density for all common cathode chemistries to be increased by approximately 20%.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

Hyundai Motor Group will collaborate with the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) jointly to research and develop an advanced fuel for an ultra lean-burn, spark-ignition engine that aims to lower the overall carbon dioxide emissions of a vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2016

The company says that its proprietary AquaRefining is first environmentally friendly process to recycle lead-acid batteries (LABs). Lead smelting—ranked as the third highest polluting industry in the world—can release toxic lead dust, smoke and slag with significant deleterious environmental and health consequences.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Oily water treatment schematics. ABB has developed a water treatment technology that cleans oily wastewater—by far the largest waste product in oil and gas production—quickly, cost-effectively and energy-efficiently. About seven to ten barrels of produced water are generated for each barrel of oil. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2016

The automotive catalytic converter, developed in the early 1970s primarily by General Motors and BASF/Engelhard and first deployed in 1975, changes exhaust pollutants into CO 2 , water vapor and nitrogen. SDC catalyst ingredients enable more pollution reductions at the leading edge of emissions control than would otherwise be possible.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2021

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company, is collaborating with Republic Services Inc. Unlike competing technologies like gasification or incineration, Raven SR’s process involves no combustion, as previously confirmed by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, avoiding the creation of toxic pollutants and particulates.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Mining is environmentally harmful—it scars landscapes, adversely affects ecosystems and habitat, is water- and energy-intensive, and can pollute air and water resources. Evaporation ponds are water-intensive, can require thousands of square miles of land, and are environmentally destructive.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Eni currently makes use of approximately 50% of the used cooking oil available in Italy and, in part thanks to RenOils-member regeneration companies, will extend its capacity to produce high-quality biofuel from this waste in the company’s bio-refinery in Venice, at Porto Marghera, and soon also in Gela.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Historically, mining activities have contributed to negative environmental and social effects, including use of child labor, acid runoff into essential water and food sources, and noise and air pollution. Ford will continue to conduct outreach to mining companies to engage with IRMA and undergo assurance.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

SQM is currently one of the lithium-producing companies with the lowest carbon and water footprint in the world. In accordance with IRMA standards, the Atacama site conducts independent third-party audits in areas such as worker health and safety, human rights, community engagement, and pollution control. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

MARCH 16, 2022

Tesla received its final environmental approval for Gigafactory Berlin a few weeks ago, permitting the company to produce up to 500,000 vehicles per year. Tesla sends out Giga Berlin invitations, Minister slams water association over consumption concerns. Just recently, Tesla secured its water supply yet again.

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Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2024

However, according to a press release , the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality on Monday approved Piedmont’s original permit, doing away with a massive obstacle in the company’s hopes to mine a lithium deposit in Gaston County. North Carolina has never denied a mining permit application before.

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InsideEVs

MARCH 13, 2023

The company is alleged to have caused water pollution, which is considered an environmental crime.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2009

At last week’s Ocean Innovation 2009 conference in Victoria, British Columbia, Craig Carter, Director of Marketing and Customer Service at Thordon Bearings detailed the company’s progress in the retrofitting of large ocean-going vessels with seawater-lubricated propeller shaft bearings to reduce waterborne pollution.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Recent reports from China ( earlier post ) cited local environmental officials suggesting that battery maker Johnson Controls was the source of lead in a pollution incident in Shanghai affecting some 21 children. Johnson Controls has now issued a statement saying that it has “ no reason to believe we are the source of the issue.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

New clean fuel regulations in California and voluntary slowdowns by shipping companies substantially reduce air pollution caused by near-shore ships, according to a new NOAA-led study published online in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Lack et al. grams of emissions per kg of fuel to 0.39

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

Raven SR , a renewable fuels company, and Hyzon Motors Inc., This permits the control of the rotary reformer when there is water content or chemical makeup variation in the feedstock, such as in MSW. Our process eliminates waste from going into the landfill, and together with HYZON’s fleets will eliminate emissions pollution.

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Green Authority

JANUARY 16, 2023

Neoplants, a new French startup, took that message to heart in designing genetically modified houseplants that absorb air pollutants. We are all keenly aware of air pollution and its impact on the planet over the past few decades. Cooking and smoking can also contribute to indoor pollution.

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Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2023

The Boring Company (TBC) submitted a permit to discharge about 140,000 gallons of wastewater into the Colorado River a few weeks ago. The Boring Company’s neighbors received a notice about the company’s wastewater disposal request a few weeks ago.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2022

Canada-based battery materials company Euro Manganese (EMN) reported that the first shipment of the components of its demonstration plant to be sited in Chvaletice, Czech Republic is underway from China, where the components of the plant are being assembled. Background. In May 2016, Euro Manganese Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2009

Log scale plot of illustrative water consumption by energy-related activity. Business leaders from some of the world’s biggest companies called for water, energy and climate change issues to be linked in global negotiations, such as the international climate talks due to culminate in Copenhagen in December. Data: WBCSD (2009).

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Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2022

As per local reports, a water-polluting liquid had leaked in Giga Berlin’s paint shop earlier this week. Fortunately, spokesman Thomas Frey has confirmed that the substance was fully caught and gathered in a collection tank, and later pumped out by an approved waste disposal company.

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Baua Electric

MAY 17, 2024

The only waste emitted is water vapour. Making the demonstrator car was “a really obvious thing” to do, the company’s chief executive Lynn Calder told journalists at the unveiling this week. The only waste emitted is water vapour. billion) a year on green infrastructure if in power.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

The companies say they a vision for a larger role for methanol as a clean and sustainable fuel worldwide. Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

The use of heavy fuel oils (HFOs) contributes to global warming due to the fossil origin of these fuels and, moreover, generating non-negligible emissions of pollutants such as sulfur oxides. Although cleaner fuels are available, many companies opt for HFOs due to their low cost.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Previous reports have indicated that Tesla is looking to build a plant near Robstown, Texas, that would process, refine, and manufacture battery materials for the company’s supply chain. Tesla discusses lithium refining facility’s water supply in Nueces. million on property taxes over that period.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

Once brought to market, the fuel cell technology could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and air pollution from thousands of small commercial boats throughout California including patrol, fishing, fire, rescue, ferry, taxi, recreational and other vessels. Supported boat speeds range from a few knots to more than 50 knots.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Compared to conventional diesel, Enidiesel+ features a renewable component that reduces polluting emissions by up to 40%, consumption by about 4% and engine maintenance costs. These metrics be monitored by both companies in collaboration with the Institute for Engines (Istituto Motori) at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR).

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Baua Electric

APRIL 21, 2024

That year was the height of counterculture in the United States, it witnessed the death of Jimi Hendrix, the last Beatles album, and Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ War raged in Vietnam and students across the US overwhelmingly opposed it. Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2019

Kenworth Truck Company and Toyota Motor North America are collaborating to develop 10 zero-emission Kenworth T680s powered by Toyota hydrogen fuel cell electric powertrains. To remove pollution and improve the air quality in and around the Port of Los Angeles. Earlier post.).

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