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Chevron USA kicked off a road trip across the US Gulf Coast to showcase an innovative new gasoline blend with more than 50% renewable content. During the tour, Chevron representatives will talk with members of the public about the benefits of lower carbon fuels such as biofuels and renewable gasoline blend.
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Only two days earlier I had been at a meeting to plan our response and action if Garcetti were to choose to repower the plants to burn more gas for the next 30-40 years. But then on Monday afternoon word started to stream through that the Mayor was embracing the Green New Deal for Los Angeles and would announce there would be no gas repower.
Propel Fuels announced a multi-year agreement with Pacific Convenience and Fuels (PC&F) to co-locate Propel Clean Fuel Points (E85/biodiesel) with PC&F gas stations and convenience stores throughout the Western US.
Yeah, I’m talking to you Exxon/Mobil mercenaries who work at the Torrance refinery and you amoral assassins who get your blood money from the Chevron refinery in El Segundo. According the the WSJ, “Many business groups are opposed to EPA efforts to curb a gas as ubiquitous as carbon dioxide.&#. Did you think I was kidding?
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Billy’s no doubt spreading his Benjamins (try not to visualize that) because he wants less regulation, more development and someone who won’t stand up for the climate against greenhouse gas emitters and polluters. Doesn’t Oxy Oil know that Amy Howorth helped launch a 100% renewable energy goal in Manhattan Beach in March?
But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. Every one of those companies’ financial futures depends on that 5,795 gigatons of carbon being turned into greenhouse gas emissions that will literally cook the planet past the point of human habitation.
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Azul Airlines, Embraer and GE announced that Amyris’s renewable jet fuel sourced from Brazilian sugarcane has successfully passed all required testing and will be used during a demonstration flight on an Azul E195 aircraft powered by GE’s CF34-10E engines. Amyris, Inc.,
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Chevron Technology Ventures and the Institute for Energy Economics of Japan provided support for the study. “We Amy Myers Jaffe, one of the report authors The Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) mandates production targets for renewable fuels, mainly biodiesel and ethanol. Lifting the $0.54
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Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. This work will focus on designing a carbon capture system capable of capturing 50 to 70 percent of CO 2 emissions from blast furnace gas. LH CO 2 MENT Colorado Project.
ExxonMobil said extended its support of the MIT Energy Initiative’s (MITEI) low-carbon energy research and education mission by renewing its status as a founding member for another five years. With its renewed membership, ExxonMobil will expand its participation in MITEI’s Low-Carbon Energy Centers.
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The US DRIVE Cradle-to-Grave Working Group has published the “Cradle-to-Grave Lifecycle Analysis of US Light-Duty Vehicle-Fuel Pathways: A Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Economic Assessment of Current (2015) and Future (2025–2030) Technologies” Argonne National Lab Report. Cost of avoided greenhouse gas emissions. Elgowainy et al.
The report comes as oil majors like ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell, and other companies, are developing at least a couple dozen oil shale and CTL projects, including 12 CTL facilities projected to produce 170 million barrels of liquid fuels per year at a cost of $2 billion to $7 billion per plant.
Accenture defined disruptive fuel technologies as those that: Reduce hydrocarbon fuel demand by more than 20% by 2030; Save greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by more than 30% relative to the hydrocarbons they replace; Will be commercial in less than five years; and. Biojet (renewable hydrocarbon fuels for aviation). Marine scrubbers.
The Exxon/Mobil refinery in Torrance and the Chevron refinery in El Segundo are both located in the South Bay and are each a big part of the carbon-based economy that causes the majority of climate change - although you’ll never get either of these corporations to admit this truth or take responsibility for it. It hardly seems fair.
So not only is climate change-driven drought cutting our fresh water supply, but the way we use water here also adds to our greenhouse gas emissions. We Californians are very proud of our state’s Global Warming Solutions law, AB 32, that mandates greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced to 1990 levels by the year 2020.
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