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JK Tyre challenges retrospective EPR liability, will pass on costs to customers | Autocar Professional

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JK Tyre has challenged the government’s attempt to retroactively impose Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) norms on the industry, according to Dr. Raghupati Singhania, Chairman and Managing Director, in a post-results conference call. However, in the process of tyre consumption, when the emissions are created, who is responsible?

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Vattenfall and Aalborg University Partner with SCF Technologies on Near Supercritical Bio-oil Process

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Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. SCF Technologies presentation (2008).

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EPA announces 2016 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners

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This could reduce the mining of ore which reduces costs, greenhouse gas emissions and waste. This technology could cut energy usage by 85 billion BTUs/year, waste generation by 8.5 Nutrient pollution is one of America’s most widespread, costly and challenging environmental problems. million kg/year and carbon generation by 21.7

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Tesla drivers have smoke blown in their faces | Opinion

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Well, that’s being overly kind, actually, they’re more like the kind of people who choose to support oil companies and Saudi Arabia and let the world burn because they hate their children, and their children’s children too.

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ECP Developing Plasma-Assisted Compact Fischer-Tropsch Gas-to-Liquids System

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The resulting wax should be easily hydrocracked and resulting fuels will be an order of magnitude less toxic than conventional Diesel oil. In urban areas, waste cooking oil from restaurants could be the raw material. Albin Czernichowski’s press conference at ACS. Click to enlarge. Albin Czernichowski, Prof.

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

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The anaerobic digester is fed the waste from the distillation process and the wastes from 2,000 dairy cattle and 10,000 beef cattle being raised on the site. Madson identified several ethanol plants that were built in industrial settings that were able to use the waste heat, i.e. from an adjacent refinery, to produce their ethanol.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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According to a report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the margin of error in measuring emissions by DOEs can be as high as: 10% for the cement and fertilizer industries; 60% for the oil, gas, and coal industries; and. United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009. 100% for some agricultural processes.

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