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CARB, NOAA, NASA and San Jose State University scientists team up to study ozone transported across Pacific

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The data will help CARB to better characterize the ozone vertical profile and its temporal variation in the San Joaquin Valley, and to understand the vertical mixing of ozone aloft down to the surface. over Fresno and Bakersfield between June and September.

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Neste opens four new renewable diesel filling stations in California

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The four new fueling stations join existing Neste-branded fuel stations in San Leandro, San Jose, Keyes and Ripon. As part of the advanced clean truck rule, California regulators are considering additional measures to reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from trucks.

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Chevron fined $422,500 for 3 instances of non-compliant fuels in California; ethanol, olefin and cetane issues

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Dispensed from Chevron terminals in Sacramento and San Jose, the fuel did not contain adequate amounts of ethanol. Higher levels of olefin mean more smog will be formed from tailpipe emissions since hydrocarbons, including olefin, react with sunlight and other pollutants to form smog.

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Frito-Lay boosts electric fleet; 275 electric trucks by the end of 2012

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The new all-electric trucks will operate from distribution centers located throughout California: Alameda, City of Industry, La Mirada, Manteca, San Diego, San Jose and Torrance. In May of this year, Frito-Lay reached a milestone of one million all-electric miles driven.

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DOE awards $3.6M to High Performance Computing projects in manufacturing, materials and mobility

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City of San José – Department of Transportation (San Jose, CA) will partner with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to develop a quasi-dynamic traffic assignment model that reduces compute times of from days to hours for a metropolitan area. Praxair Inc., a member of the Linde group - Praxair, Inc. HPC for Mobility.

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ICCT assesses factors driving EV market in US cities

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The San Jose area had the highest share at 10%, followed by other California areas (4% to 6%) and markets in Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington (2% to 4%). Overall, the share of new vehicles that are plug-in electric in these 50 areas is 1.2%, about 3 times the proportion in the rest of the United States.

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7 airlines sign letters of intent to negotiate purchase of biomass-derived jet fuel from Solena Fuels; up to 16M gallons of fuel per year

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The project will divert approximately 550,000 metric tons of waste that otherwise would go to a landfill while producing jet fuel with lower emissions of greenhouse gases and local pollutants than petroleum-based fuels. Earlier post.).

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