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EPA awards $5M to the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) for cleaner big rigs

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The Clean Trucks Make Cents program is focused on the eight Southeastern states that make up EPA Region 4, where about 16 million people are subject to levels of air pollution that do not meet National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ground-level ozone, the main component in smog.

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GE Technology Selected for Hydrogen Energy IGCC Project in California

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In 2007, GE and BP formed a global alliance to jointly develop and deploy technology for at least five IGCC power plants that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation. and the Polk Tampa Electric IGCC plant in Florida, that helped demonstrate the commercial feasibility of IGCC.

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Study Claims EVs Will Not Save the Environment, All Cars Are Bad

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Concepts like ultra-low emission zones (ULEZ) and levering connected vehicle technologies to police driving from an environmental and social standpoint are rooted in the key principles of Vision Zero. Meanwhile, EVs will likely increase specific forms of air pollution (e.g. These are conservative estimates, he and his co-authors write.