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Urgent: Assemblymember Chris Holden Trying to Kill California’s 100% Renewable Climate Bill, #ChangeTheClimate, #SB100

Creative Greenius

The oil industry is actively swaying Assemblymembers with large contributions and trips to Hawaii, acts which a couple years ago helped kill off an important groundwater protection-from-oil wastewater bill, AB-356 (Williams). But you can help. Autumn Burke – (916) 319-2062 – [link]. Phillip Chen – (916) 319-2055 – [link].

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Pike Research forecasts US plug-in vehicle penetration rates to be highest in smaller states

Green Car Congress

While the most populous states will see the highest sales volumes, with California, New York and Florida likely leading the way, as a percentage of total vehicle sales, smaller states will lead, with Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, DC, and Delaware among the top states for PEV penetration. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA.

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$112.5M awarded to research consortia studying effects of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf of Mexico

Green Car Congress

The GRI also funds research that improves techniques for detecting oil and gas, spill mitigation, and technologies to characterize and remediate spills. Project Title: Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf (ECOGIG). Lead Institution: Florida State University. Lead Investigator: Eric Chassignet, Ph.D.

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SAE World Congress panel highlights progress on H2 infrastructure and fuel cell vehicle commercialization

Green Car Congress

Hydrogen stations are being built in these areas from industrial gas suppliers such as Linde, Air Products, Air Liquide, Iwatani and other companies such as H2 Logic, First Element and Hydrogen Frontiers are working to create these stations. In addition, they plan to use carbon capture for their reformation of natural gas to hydrogen.

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Sandia study finds fuel cell barges may be attractive lower-cost cold-ironing solution for some types of vessels at some ports

Green Car Congress

Auxiliary power to docked ships, usually provided by on-board diesel engines, is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, accounting for one-third to one-half of the in-port emissions attributed to ocean-going vessels. Los Angeles, Calif.; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Seattle, Wash. Oakland, Calif.;

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Letter from Copenhagen

Revenge of the Electric Car

So I chained up my bike (and mini-trailer) and set out on foot with rolling camera case dreaming of my heated electric car at home in Los Angeles. And even with hundreds of riot police (and dozens of dogs and tear gas), fresh back from Bagdad, to control them, the marches went on. one point for cars). Toronto would lead!

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The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A visit to the gas station takes minutes not seconds and so the California Air Resource board, when it established fast charging standards, set the goal of charging the batteries to 80% in 10 minutes. I like to use the example of someone driving from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.