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UPS makes largest purchase of renewable natural gas yet in the US: 170M gallon equivalents over 7 years

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UPS announced an agreement with Clean Energy Fuels Corp. This is equivalent to planting 17,000,000 trees, removing 228,000 cars off the road or recycling 374,000 tons of waste that would otherwise be sent to the landfill. El Paso, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Kansas City, Kan.; Clean Energy, co-founded by T.

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NIST awards nearly $4M to support metals-based additive manufacturing

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The process offers advantages such as reduced material waste, lower energy intensity, reduced time to market and just-in-time production. University of Texas at El Paso ($1 million). Metals-based additive processes form parts by melting or sintering material in powder form.