Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2014

The propane fleet will replace gasoline- and diesel-fueled vehicles used largely in rural areas in Louisiana and Oklahoma with other states pending. States that attract this type of investment with tax incentives and grants will factor into the UPS deployment strategy. —David Abney, UPS chief operating officer.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Altogether, the five-year program will deliver more than $136 million in research and development grants to public and private sector partners in 22 states. The grants announced by Vilsack in Seattle today came through USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2012

In September 2012, the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) issued an Order granting Syntroleum Corporation’s request for inter partes re-examination of US Patent No. The ’344 patent is related to and shares the same inventors as a prior Neste patent (7,279,018), and both are directed to a fuel composition for diesel engines.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the US’ existing fleet of diesel engines. Since the first year of the DERA program in 2008, EPA has awarded nearly 700 grants across the US.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Like the Recovery Act-funded projects, the annual Clean Cities projects include grants for vehicles, infrastructure, and education. The project will replace 190 older diesel school buses with hybrid electric school buses to be used in school districts throughout Kentucky. Last week, the Department of Energy also announced that.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

million gallons of diesel annually with natural gas. The Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC) also provided $350,000 toward the new fueling stations in the form of grants. The two facilities are part of a larger project which will displace more than 1.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

Green Diesel. The hydroprocessing technology used in the Green Diesel process—and also used for Green Jet—is relatively mature, Rekoske noted. UOP is moving faster commercially on the Green Diesel side, with the Diamond Green project with Darling International and Valero Energy nearly complete. —Jim Rekoske.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

SporTran, a paratransit and fixed route transit services provider, with service to Shreveport and Bossier City, Louisiana, has deployed the state’s first fleet of battery-electric buses in Shreveport. The five Proterra 40' Catalyst E2 buses will go into service this month, and serve Louisiana’s third-largest city.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2015

Specifically, USDA will administer competitive grants to match funding for state-led efforts to test and evaluate innovative and comprehensive approaches to market higher blends of renewable fuel, such as E15 and E85. USDA will post a Notice of Solicitation of Applications in June.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

million is coming to 26 government agencies, universities, and electric utilities in Louisiana. The Department of Environmental Quality is awarding 79 grants for the charging stations, using money from the state’s $19.8 Almost $12 million of Louisiana’s share was put aside to exchange 351 diesel buses owned by 16 local school boards.

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