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Celebrating Earth Month: Driving Toward a Greener, Cleaner Future

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And that presents a tremendous opportunity for charging businesses right now, who will have to build 1 million charge ports by 2030. The growth in EV adoption is not only beneficial for the environment but also presents opportunities for businesses and communities to showcase their commitment to sustainability.

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DLR: cleaner aircraft emissions reduce the climate impact of contrail cirrus

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and d contrail cirrus net radiative forcing due to a 80% reduced initial ice crystal number (low minus present-day initial ice crystal number). hPa and absolute change in c total cover of contrail cirrus with an optical depth?>?0.05 Burkhardt et al. The results are expected in summer 2019.

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Novel adaptation for existing blast furnaces could reduce steelmaking emissions by 88%; closed-loop carbon recycling

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Devised by Professor Yulong Ding and Dr Harriet Kildahl from the University of Birmingham’s School of Chemical Engineering, the system is detailed in an open-access paper published in the Journal of Cleaner Production. If implemented in the UK alone, the system could deliver cost savings of £1.28 2023.135963.

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Argonne VERIFI researchers applying GSA to investigate combustion engine parameters; seeking cleaner and more efficient engines

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By gaining a better understanding of how these parameter uncertainties affect outcomes, the VERIFI researchers, along with colleagues at the University of Connecticut, are seeking to create cleaner and more efficient engines. There are lots of unknowns that are involved. —Sibendu Som.

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Northwestern-led team develops hydrogenation catalyst selective for carcinogen benzene; cleaner gasoline

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The new catalyst could cost-effectively remove benzene from the other aromatic compounds in gasoline, making it cleaner but without eliminating other aromatics; aromatics in gasoline are used to improve gas octane numbers and fuel efficiency. An open access paper on their work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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California Air Resources Board unanimously adopts Advanced Clean Cars Package

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Staff presentation. Click to enlarge. This package of regulations is both visionary and absolutely feasible ,” said Mary Nichols, ARB Chairman, at the opening of the hearing on the rules on Thursday. “ The goal is to accelerate a transition already in process and to make sure it succeeds. LEV III Board Book. ZEV Board Book. CFO Board Book.

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PNNL team develops least costly to date carbon capture system with conversion to methanol

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gal ($470/metric ton), is presented. A new study described in the Journal of Cleaner Production explores the cost of running the methanol system using different PNNL-developed capture solvents, and that figure has now dropped to just below $39 per metric ton of CO 2. Resources Kothandaraman, J., —Kothandaraman et al.