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San Diego begins using Neste renewable diesel in city fleet

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The city of San Diego, California has begun using Neste renewable diesel in its vehicle fleet. The City expects to begin using renewable diesel at fire stations in the coming weeks, which will result in all of the City’s 1,125 diesel-powered vehicles being powered by renewable diesel. —Major Kevin Faulconer.

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CARB announces up to $205M in new funding for clean freight transportation; >$400M with partner match

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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced up to $205 million in grants for projects designed to accelerate the adoption of clean freight technologies and reduce air pollution caused by the movement of goods throughout the state. Partner match: $15.4 Partner match: $45.9 Partner match: $5.8

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California Energy Commission awards more than $2.5M for clean transportation projects

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The approved awards were made through the Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, created by Assembly Bill 118. The award recipients are: Environ Strategy Consultants, Inc. The digesters will use the waste to produce biomethane to be converted into renewable compressed natural gas fuel.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

Oakland, Sacramento, and Salt Lake City. Paul plant, and direct the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to study the environmental impacts of purchasing PHEVs for the state-owned vehicle fleet and various other levels of penetration among the public. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX., Keene, N.H., Santa Barbara, CA.,

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Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages

Charged EVs

We make products that happen to use renewable sources of energy as opposed to connecting to the grid for the primary source of energy. ” But the thing is, we knew that they would need EV charging in these types of environments—brownfield sites, nuclear waste sites. I like Beam much better—a beam of energy, the structural beam.

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When You See Something, Say Something: Climate Emergency Alarm Bells Ringing While Local Electeds Pretend Not To Hear

Creative Greenius

economy, environment, and human health and well-being over the coming decades.”. will retire the plants and replace them with renewables and storage. Not the City of Carson, its citizens choking and sick from its own nonstop polluting refineries, nor El Segundo a city run by the equally dangerous and lung-choking Chevron Refinery.

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