Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Since forming in 2013, Argent Materials, a San Francisco Bay Area recycler of concrete and asphalt, and supplier of aggregate such as crushed rock, entry, cutback, sand, backfill and base rock for construction projects, has diverted more than a billion pounds of waste from local landfills.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2021

Volvo Cars announced that its Torslanda site in Sweden is its first car manufacturing plant to reach fully climate-neutral status. This makes Torslanda the second plant in its overall manufacturing network to reach this status, after the Skövde engine plant in Sweden became climate-neutral in 2018. Torslanda plant.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Climate neutrality. Vehicles on the road, when powered by synthetic fuel, are ultimately climate-neutral. Innovative biofuels, which are, for example, produced from waste materials, are useful—however, the supply is limited. The production process is viable, but capacity is lacking.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The EU-India Clean Energy and Climate Partnership included a plan to develop a waste-to-hydrogen facility in Pune, led by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and The Green Billions Limited (TGBL). million metric tons of waste using Refuse-Derived Fuel (RDF) and. The 450 crore ($54M) project was intended to process 3.8

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2018

To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, “negative emissions technologies” (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will need to play a significant role in mitigating climate change, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2019

California will meet its 2030 climate targets more than three decades late, in 2061, and could be more than 100 years late in meeting its 2050 target if the average rate of emissions reductions from the past year hold steady, according to a new study tracking more than a decade of environmental and economic indicators in the state.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2021

A climate-neutral alternative to petroleum-based fuels, they also offer the potential for significantly reduced overall emissions, allowing Tenneco’s Clean Air experts to better manage any remaining pollutants through the aftertreatment process. We are excited to be an active part in the development of this type of technology.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2022

The Abfallentsorgungs-Gesellschaft Ruhrgebiet mbH ( AGR ), a waste management company in Herten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, has put a converted DAF CF 340 hydrogen fuel cell truck into operation as part of the EU-funded HECTOR (Hydrogen Waste Collection Vehicles in North West Europe) project.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2022

LanzaJet, a sustainable fuels technology company and renewable fuels producer, has secured financing for its Freedom Pines Fuels plant in Soperton, Georgia ( earlier post ), through the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund. The remaining fraction is SPD with superior properties to conventional diesel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2020

The CCS Full-Scale project is a central part of Norway’s efforts to reduce its carbon footprint and meet the European goal of climate-neutrality by 2050. The approved project would allow for the establishment of carbon capture facilities at Norcem, a cement factory in Brevik, and Fortum Oslo Varme, a Waste-to-Energy plant.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2019

Shell will join a consortium comprising Air Liquide, Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals), Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam in an effort to build Europe’s first advanced waste-to-chemicals facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2020

Daimler announced a trial and development partnership with Israeli cleantech company UBQ Materials to explore the use of UBQ’s climate-positive material in the production of automobile parts. Daimler is also promoting the use of UBQ across its logistics manufacturers to offset carbon footprint throughout the Daimler supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2021

Volkswagen was one of the first car manufacturers to subscribe to the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement that aim to limit global warming to significantly less than two degrees by 2050. Only unavoidable emissions are offset by climate protection measures. The use of LNG not only reduces CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2020

On demand, the hydrogen is released from the hydride (endothermic reaction), utilizing the waste heat of the fuel cell. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles produce very low carbon emissions and no air pollution which makes them vital to cleaning our air and tackling climate change. From Adelhelm & Jongh (2011).

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

City Council, board members of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Commission and long term colleagues from the climate justice action community to be part of a historic announcement. ” – this means that mega-polluting, constantly climate-killing, fossil fuel Chevron must go too.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

Introduced in the strengthened climate plan, A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy, and reaffirmed in Budget 2021, the fund grows the domestic clean fuels market, supports the implementation of the Clean Fuels Standard and delivers on early actions outlined in the Hydrogen Strategy for Canada. Seamus O’Regan Jr.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

LanzaTech and Sumitomo Riko Company have entered into a joint-development agreement to reuse rubber, resin and urethane waste for the production of a key chemical intermediate, isoprene. In addition, much like other agriculturally based industries, climate change and disease can severely impact production.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

BASF is launching the pilot platform reciChain in the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada, as a response to plastic waste. According to a report produced by Deloitte for Environment and Climate Change Canada , Canada disposed of nearly 3.3 million tons of plastic waste in 2016.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Operation with natural gas or biomethane makes the compact model economical and more climate-friendly with low emissions. More than half of them sell biomethane produced entirely from waste, and this number is increasing. With this fuel, driving is nearly climate-neutral. Audi first introduced an A3 Sportback g-tron in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The growth of a perennial grass biomass crop can add additional profit opportunities for Florida and to other parts of the US with climates suitable for tropical biomass production. Citrus greening is spread by a disease-infected insect, the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) (Diaphorina citri Kuwayama)).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2021

Sinopec Capital, as the industrial investment arm of Sinopec Group—one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies—announced an investment in LanzaTech with a focus on promoting direct production of chemicals from waste carbon. —Huang Wensheng, Chairman of Sinopec Capital.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2020

A Korean research team has developed a technology that can be used to mass-produce aviation-grade fuels from wood wastes. Large volumes of lignin are generated as waste in the pulping processes that are used to produce paper. Lignin constitutes 20 to 40 percent of lignocellulose.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

This way, we reuse waste oil in an environmentally compatible way. With 85 percent lower CO 2 emissions than with conventional fossil fuels, the contribution to climate protection is enormous. We are the first automaker to make widespread use of this fuel. —Thomas Zernechel, Head of Volkswagen Group Logistics.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 22, 2022

From ramping up clean electricity to eliminating food waste. Projects that lead to a low-carbon society and limit climate change will have more and greater benefits for health than previously realized. From designing cities for walking and biking to preserving ecosystems. By Ann Grauvogl Those are […].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2021

The biocrude oil came from many different sources, including wastewater sludge from Detroit, and food waste collected from prison and an army base. The research showed that essentially any biocrude, regardless of wet-waste sources, could be used in the process and the catalyst remained robust during the entire run.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2022

Advanced biofuels are based on raw biological materials, such as used cooking oil and other waste products. The remaining part of the supply chain is made climate neutral by full lifecycle emission compensation. The emission reductions also help DHL’s customers to achieve their climate targets.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Finally, USDA has set benchmarks; these targets will help measure progress toward meeting the food, fiber, fuel, feed, and climate demands of the future. The benchmarks include: Food loss and waste: Advance our work toward the United States’ goal to reduce food loss and waste by 50% in the United States by the year 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2019

The research suggests that if nations, business, cities and citizens take ambitious climate action over the next 10 years, cities will be on track to reduce their emissions in line with a 1.5°C This would allow a reduction in new items of clothing to as low as 3 per person, per year, and reduce waste, costs, and impact. C trajectory.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It is a strategy rooted in cross-cutting research and engineering to enable industry stakeholders, communities, government agencies, and early adopters to meet their climate goals. In NREL’s bioenergy program, for example, we have chemists studying the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass and waste materials into fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2023

The program also establishes a waste emissions charge for methane from applicable facilities that report more than 25,000 metric tons of CO 2 equivalent per year to the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) petroleum and natural gas systems source category and that exceed statutorily specified waste emissions thresholds.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

UBQ is a patented material converted from 100% unsorted household waste, containing food leftovers, mixed plastics, paper, cardboard, packaging materials and diapers. By diverting landfill-destined waste, UBQ prevents the emission of methane, groundwater leakage and other environmental harms. Every ton of UBQ produced prevents 11.7

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

C using waste heat from a nearby geothermal plant to release the CO 2 molecules. From a scientific perspective, the adsorption of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is an important measure in addition to reducing emissions for reaching the Group’s climate targets. This uses a specially developed adsorbent to bind the CO 2 in the air.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We face a growing crisis of climate change and nature loss and we all need to take action with urgency. For 15 years, we have been partnering to do the work and continually raising our sustainability ambitions across climate action, nature, waste and people.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The fuel cells of the company will primarily be used for stationary power generation and within the maritime sector and are a climate-friendly alternative to conventional fossil-based combustion engines. Waste heat can also be used for additional energy recovery. no gas purification is needed on the reformat gas.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This agreement will mark the completion of Metro’s 5-year goal to transition its diesel fleet to cleaner, low-carbon fuel, with 2,400 buses now running on RNG—the first renewable and commercially available vehicle fuel made entirely from organic waste. Metro is committed to ensuring a seamless path towards a carbon-neutral future.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2021

In the first phase of SAF deployment through 2025, waste oils are the likeliest source of low-carbon fuel due to their low carbon intensity and ease of conversion. —Pete Harrison, Executive Director for EU Policy at the European Climate Foundation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The pillars will guide Kia in its efforts to reduce carbon emissions in all operational facets, from supply, logistics, vehicle production and vehicle use through to disposal of waste. To rid the oceans of plastic effectively, plastic waste currently in ocean needs to be cleaned and new plastic should be stopped from entering the oceans.

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