Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2013

The US Department of State (DOS) has released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in response to TransCanada’s May 2012 application for the Keystone XL pipeline that would run from Canada’s oils sands in Alberta to Nebraska. The pipeline would primarily transport crude oil from the WCSB and Bakken regions.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Twenty homes scattered across Canada and the northern United States are keeping warm this winter using prototypes of the latest iteration in residential heating systems: cold climate heat pumps. To prove it, eight manufacturers are publicly testing their prototypes in the Cold-Climate Heat Pump Technology Challenge , hosted by the U.S.

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

We need more aggressive cuts in emissions to get us anywhere near the pathways that limit the worst impacts of climate change. California must continue its strong climate leadership if we are to have any hope to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions in time to keep the climate safe, which is vital, because….

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

Based on visual interpretation of high-resolution (30 m) satellite images, a new study in the journal Global Change Biology: Bioenergy determined that industrial plantations covered over 3.1 Slightly more than half of the GHG emissions for these biofuels in the EPA’s analysis came from land use change. —Miettinen et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2010

GE and FilterBox x recently signed an agreement to develop integrated de-oiling and water treatment options for Alberta’s oil sands. Specifically, the two companies will work together on heavy oil produced water treatment projects using in-situ thermal methods such as steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD).

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 10, 2023

As Sheikh Zaki Yamani, a former Saudi oil minister, once said, “The stone age came to an end not for a lack of stones, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.” But some oil will still be being pumped at the end, and it won't be heavy, sour, far from water crude.

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Green Energy Consumers

JULY 6, 2021

Recently I was asked by the Boston Globe to write 350 words on why the Mass Save energy efficiency program should phase out rebates for new oil-fired systems for heat and hot water. Another writer took the opposite view and readers were invited to vote for their preferred argument.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2022

Researchers in Europe led by a team from ETH Zurich have designed a fuel production system that uses water, CO 2 , and sunlight to produce aviation fuel. We are the first to demonstrate the entire thermochemical process chain from water and CO 2 to kerosene in a fully-integrated solar tower system. Zoller et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2009

Widespread climate-related impacts are occurring now in the US and are expected to increase. It is clear that climate change is happening now. The observed climate changes we report are not opinions to be debated, they are facts to be dealt with.This is a dynamic process. Source: USGCRP. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

Crude palm oil is one of the more than ten renewable raw materials that Neste uses to produce a range of renewable products, including renewable diesel. Palm oil represents approximately 20% of Neste’s renewable raw material usage annually. A belt filter dewaters by applying pressure to solids to squeeze out the water.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

The captured CO 2 will be used for enhanced oil recovery. By making gasoline without the byproducts of crude oil refining, Nacero’s Penwell facility will avoid the introduction into the atmosphere of 1 billion tons of CO 2 during its first thirty years of operation. Nacero’s Pemwell-facility in Houston, Texas.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

Hyundai Motor Group will collaborate with the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) jointly to research and develop an advanced fuel for an ultra lean-burn, spark-ignition engine that aims to lower the overall carbon dioxide emissions of a vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2020

The ability to produce aviation-grade fuel from oil derived from wood waste—which up until now has been difficult due to the high viscosity of the oil—could help international aviation companies comply with new emissions regulations scheduled to go into effect in 2027. Lignin constitutes 20 to 40 percent of lignocellulose.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2009

Log scale plot of illustrative water consumption by energy-related activity. Business leaders from some of the world’s biggest companies called for water, energy and climate change issues to be linked in global negotiations, such as the international climate talks due to culminate in Copenhagen in December.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

By creating carbon-neutral gasoline from CO 2 captured from the air, Prometheus Fuels allows the climate impact of today’s internal combustion engines to be massively reduced immediately. The conversion of CO 2 to fuels in these inexpensive water-based systems has shown high faradic efficiencies for reduction of CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

The system will graph lifecycle impact for a range of specified powertrains, for a large number of impact categories: Climate change [kg CO 2 -eq.]. Depletion of fossil energy resources [kg oil-eq.]. Depletion of fresh water reserves [m 3 ]. Sample results from Carculator. Depletion of metal resources [kg iron-eq.].

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. Breakthroughs in battery technology, carbon sequestration, and other energy technologies that result in a five-fold improvement over current technology could literally change the world. Not really.”

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

Ford Motor Company is the first automaker and one of several companies taking a leadership position in joining the Water Disclosure Project , which will establish a water disclosure protocol for companies around the world and promote conservation and stewardship. For the past decade, Ford has made it a priority to conserve water.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m talking about the people who work for and represent E&B oil. The people whose business model is to wreck the ecology and the climate and profit from it. There are no bigger cowards then the people who work for the oil, coal and gas industries. I’m talking about heroes like climate scientist Michael E.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

A team at the University of Calgary (Canada) has compared the energy intensities and lifecycle GHG emissions of unconventional oils (oil sands and oil shale) alongside shale gas, coal, lignite, wood and conventional oil and gas. This is not the same as crude oil occurring naturally in shales, as in the Bakken.

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Oil-Sands Oil Energy Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2022

When setting biofuel volumes for years after 2022, EPA must consider a variety of factors specified in the statute, including costs, air quality, climate change, implementation of the program to date, energy security, infrastructure issues, commodity prices, and water quality and supply. EIA has also projected 2.4.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

And so it is that I resigned from my position as Director of Strategic Partnerships and Public Affairs for CBS EcoMedia effective the first of this month and I will now be devoting my full time to working on climate change response with the South Bay 350 Climate Action Group, the South Bay Bicycle Coalition and 350.org.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2015

OPEC says that $10 trillion worth of investment will need to flow into oil and gas through 2040 in order to meet the world’s energy needs. The OPEC published its World Oil Outlook 2015 (WOO) in late December, which struck a much more pessimistic note on the state of oil markets than in the past. mb/d between 2020 and 2025, 3.3

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Oil Prices Oil Price Climate Change 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

A technology and energy production consortium has successfully completed initial proof-of-concept testing of a novel oil sands extraction method that has the potential to improve environmental performance and reduce development costs. The consortium of Laricina Energy, Nexen Inc., The consortium of Laricina Energy, Nexen Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Snam and Saipem have already started working together, focusing in particular on developing the technology of water electrolysis, a process that makes it possible to reduce CO 2 emissions to zero in the production of green hydrogen. To date, 70% of our order book in the engineering and construction (E&C) sector is not related to oil.

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Hydrogen Green CO2 Oil 323

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2010

GE is partnering with the University of Alberta (UA) and Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF) on a $4 million CO 2 capture project supported by the Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation. The materials also have the potential to be used as filters for contaminated water.

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Oil-Sands Water Oil Emissions 199

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The results have important implications for Earth’s climate because methane is about 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide when it comes to warming the planet over a long period. In addition to coal mining, other major sources of methane emissions globally include wetlands, agriculture, and oil and gas facilities.

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Coal Emissions Escape Ukraine 321

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative ( OGCI ) has made its first three investments , moving forward the organization’s commitments to spur the growth of promising low carbon technologies. Launched in 2014, the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative is a voluntary, CEO-led initiative which aims to lead the industry response to climate change.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The climate change benefit is estimated for 2050 and human health and crop benefits are for 2030 and beyond. Black carbon and tropospheric ozone are harmful air pollutants that also contribute to climate change. What are the multiple climate, health and crop-yield benefits (by region) of implementing the measures?

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Creative Greenius

JULY 11, 2022

That’s granting the workers who pocketed great salaries and benefits, while filling our air and water with toxic waste, a free pass from taking any responsibility for their actions. Oil, gas and coal workers have all known for more than a dozen years that their work was helping to destroy people’s health and well being.

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Baua Electric

JULY 11, 2024

Importantly, climate change helped this storm break these records and do so much damage. These records are the reflection of climate change’s effects on our atmosphere and oceans. Only 4% of media’s Beryl coverage included mention of climate change, according to an analysis by Media Matters.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

However, it could be accomplished without impinging on environmentally sensitive areas in Brazil and while allowing for the expansion of other agricultural crops and human needs, the researchers report in a paper in the journal Nature Climate Change. of crude oil consumption and 1.5–5.6% Gigatons yr −1. This would displace 3.8–13.7%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

Water consumption or withdrawals per unit of energy produced, by energy type, in the United States. With increasing frequency ,” write the Pacific Institute researchers, “ we value energy production over water production. ”. Climate change. by Jack Rosebro. Source: DHI Group. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2019

The Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership, a World Bank initiative, notes that billions of cubic meters of natural gas are flared annually at oil production sites, wasting valuable energy resources and contributing to climate change by releasing millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The California Energy Commission approved an $8-million grant to Equilon Enterprises—a fully owned subsidiary of Shell Oil—to develop a high-capacity hydrogen fueling station to service and promote the expansion of zero-emission fuel cell electric Class 8 drayage trucks at the Port of Long Beach.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2019

This is a synergistic industrial platform that supports the aviation sector, the oil and gas industry, food production and the creation of a new agricultural alternative in the UAE. Sustainable fuel for the flight was derived from oil in Salicornia plants, which were grown on the two-hectare SEAS farm in Masdar City.

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