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New HERE-SBD index identifies EV leaders and laggards in the US and Europe

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The bottom overall US states in the HERE – SBD Automotive EV Index: (42) Wisconsin (43) Indiana (44) Louisiana (45) Kentucky (46) Texas (47) Nebraska (48) Tennessee (49) Idaho (50) Arkansas (51) Alaska. The Netherlands is one of the most mature EV markets in Europe, having more than a decade of strong government support.

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Air Products to Build World-Scale Hydrogen Plant at Monsanto Facility in Louisiana

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Air Products has signed a long-term supply contract with Monsanto Company to build a new world-scale hydrogen production plant to be located at Monsanto’s Luling, Louisiana Roundup facility. Air Products will build a steam methane reformer (SMR) producing more than 100 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD) of hydrogen.

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UPS to invest $100M more in compressed natural gas, CNG vehicles and related infrastructure

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CNG is made by compressing natural gas to less than one percent of the volume it occupies at standard atmospheric pressure. —Mark Wallace, UPS senior vice president global engineering and sustainability. The use of natural gas reduces greenhouse gas emissions six to 11 percent, according to the US Department of Energy. Columbia, S.C.;

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Air Products to supply additional hydrogen for two Gulf Coast Valero refineries; proposed new SMR facility

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Air Products will supply a combined additional supply of more than 200 million standard cubic feet per day of hydrogen for Valero’s refineries in St. Charles, Louisiana and Port Arthur, Texas. It will supply the Louisiana and Texas refinery and petrochemical industries with more than 1.2 billion cubic feet of hydrogen per day.

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Air Products Extends Gulf Coast Hydrogen Pipeline

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Air Products has completed a 37-mile extension to its US Gulf Coast hydrogen pipeline network in Louisiana. Air Products’s multi-source hydrogen system will soon have a capacity of more than 650 MMSCFD (million standard cubic feet per day) (18,405,950 m 3 or 21,866,269 kg).

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European Biodiesel Production Up 16.6% in 2009

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In 2009, biodiesel production decreased in a number of EU Member States, including Germany, Greece and the UK, but expanded in other countries such as Austria, Belgium, Finland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and Spain, which last year took the place of Italy as the third largest EU biodiesel producer, behind Germany and France.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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During the early 1900s, a distillery was a standard piece of farm equipment. 80.28, “applicable standard” means: 9.0 a first-of-its-kind waiver for the purpose of testing hydrous E10, E20, E30 & E85 ethanol blends in non-flex-fuel vehicles and flex-fuel vehicles in the State of Louisiana. As used in this section and Sec.