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GE and Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation Establish Partnership; Great Lakes Offshore Wind Farm

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GE and Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation ( LEEDCo ) of Northern Ohio have formed a long-term partnership beginning with the development of the first fresh water offshore wind farm in the US and involving a broad range of other initiatives.

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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

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Cleveland, Ohio, has approved new zoning and transportation policies that are angling to transform it into the next “fifteen-minute city,” The City Planning Commission voted to move forward with changes to building codes in several pilot neighborhoods it wants to make more pedestrian friendly.

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NASA awarding $45M to green rocket propellant technology demonstration mission

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NASA has selected a team led by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation of Boulder, Colo., for a technology demonstration of a high performance “green” propellant alternative to the highly toxic fuel hydrazine. NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission is expected to be developed and flown in approximately three years.

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Daimler Buses North America’s Orion VII Transit Bus Makes World Debut with SCR

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Daimler Buses North America (DBNA) unveiled the new-generation diesel Orion VII transit bus, now equipped with selective catalytic reduction (SCR) emissions technology, at the Bus & Paratransit Conference in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Gas2 secures £5.5M in funding to further catalytic ceramic membrane gas-to-liquids technology

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acre site at the specialist petrochemical research Wilton Centre in Cleveland in the Northeast of England, and further laboratory work and computerized modeling in Aberdeen. The new investment will leverage further funding that will enable the construction of a pilot reactor plant to test and demonstrate the technology on a 0.4

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ExxonMobil expanding position in Permian Basin

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Exxon Mobil Corporation executed two agreements to obtain horizontal development rights in 48,000 acres in the core of the Midland Basin. —Randy Cleveland, president, XTO Energy. The acreage will be operated by ExxonMobil’s subsidiary XTO Energy Inc.

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Chesapeake selling Permian and midstream assets for $6.9B; Chevron, Shell and EnerVest acquiring Permian assets for combined $3.3B

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Chesapeake Energy Corporation entered into multiple agreements to sell the vast majority of its Permian properties, substantially all of its midstream assets and certain noncore leasehold for total net cash proceeds of approximately $6.9 a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation. billion of term loans during the 2012 fourth quarter.

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