Remove Environment Remove Mexico Remove Waste
article thumbnail

Mayors of Madrid, Mexico City and Paris pledge to remove diesel cars from their cities by 2025

Green Car Congress

At the C40 Mayors Summit in Mexico City, the mayors of Paris, Mexico City and Madrid pledged to remove diesel cars from their cities by 2025. Further bolstering the effort to improve air quality, C40 announced a two-year partnership with Johnson & Johnson to promote the health and well-being of urban inhabitants and the environment.

Mexico 150
article thumbnail

Canada, US and Mexico commit to align light- and heavy-duty fuel efficiency and GHG standards out to 2025 and 2027, respectively

Green Car Congress

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. 50% clean power target.

Mexico 199
article thumbnail

Joule first to gain US EPA clearance for commercial use of modified cyanobacteria for fuel production

Green Car Congress

This clears the catalyst for commercial use at the company’s demonstration plant in Hobbs, New Mexico. Solar fuels company Joule has developed a portfolio of bio-catalysts engineered to consume and convert continuously industrial waste CO 2 emissions directly to transportation fuels. cerevisiae , E. reesei , etc.). Earlier post.).

EPA 225
article thumbnail

USDA approves $99M, 80% loan guarantee to Chemtex to support development of cellulosic ethanol from energy grasses

Green Car Congress

USDA has funded 8 additional biorefineries that are using feedstocks such as agriculture residue, woody biomass, municipal solid waste, and algae in states including Michigan, Oregon, Florida, Nevada, and New Mexico. The new USDA loan guarantee is part of a larger effort to produce advanced biofuels in every region of the country.

article thumbnail

Ford targeting 30% reduction in water used per vehicle by 2015

Green Car Congress

—Sue Cischke, group vice president, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering. Ford’s Hermosillo Stamping and Assembly Plant in Mexico produces the Ford Fusion, Fusion Hybrid and Lincoln MKZ. By eliminating the coolant/water mixture, dry-machining eliminates the need to treat and dispose of an oily waste stream.

Water 257
article thumbnail

Hyperbaric Centrifuge Technology Successfully Dewaters Coal Fines

Green Car Congress

the technology reduced the moisture to a level that the waste coal can now be marketed commercially. The result is significant to the energy consumer in that US coal producers each year discard large amounts of moisture-laden coal fines that can potentially be salvaged for energy use while simultaneously cleaning up the environment.

Coal 150
article thumbnail

New UNEP report says bridging emissions gap to meet 2-degree target doable, outlines pathways to 2020

Green Car Congress

Cutting emissions by 2020 to a level that could keep a global 21 st century temperature rise below 2 °C is technologically and economically feasible, according to a new study released by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Waste: about 0.8 Bridging the gap. Click to enlarge. Agriculture: 1.1

2020 210