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JULY 2, 2013

University of Delaware researchers have identified an algae— Heterosigma akashiwo —that grows rapidly on a gas mixture that has the same carbon dioxide and nitric oxide (NO) content as emissions released from a power plant. The high concentration of NO in flue gas can inhibit the growth of microalgae.

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JULY 24, 2020

million US Department of Energy (DOE) grant to demonstrate a pre-production Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) hybrid 4,300 hp line-haul locomotive. This new program, partially funded with the DOE grant, will allow pre-production testing at AAR’s Transportation Technology Center, Inc. g/bhp-hr of PM.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

Researchers added the mass spectrometer to SwRI’s Universal Synthetic Gas Reactor (USGR), a catalyst performance testing solution that incorporates a Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer, which uses IR radiation to identify and quantify molecules present in a gas sample. —Grant Seuser.

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AUGUST 28, 2011

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) awarded $516,637 in clean diesel grants to four organizations. Recent monitoring indicates these counties’ particulate matter levels are meeting the standards, but continuous compliance must occur before EPA will grant an attainment designation.

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OCTOBER 6, 2018

At gas stations, fuel vapors are released into the atmosphere from storage tanks through vent pipes. Our goals were to quantify vent pipe releases and examine exceedance of short-term exposure limits to benzene around gas stations. By comparison, the California Air Pollution Control Officers Association (CAPCOA) used an estimate of 0.11

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JANUARY 5, 2021

million grant awarded to BNSF and the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District from the Zero- and Near Zero-Emission Freight Facilities (ZANZEFF) project by the California Air Resource Board to pilot several emissions-reducing technologies in and around railyards. —Alan Hamilton, Wabtec vice president, Engineering.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Reducing airborne pollution at the Ports of L.A. Development of the Kenworth T680 FCEV is part of a $41 million Zero and Near-Zero Emissions Freight Facilities (ZANZEFF) grant awarded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), with the Port of Los Angeles as the prime applicant. and Long Beach is an important driver of this program.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

The federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act are making once-in-a generation investments in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. continued] The post Climate Pollution Reduction Grants for Equitable Transportation Electrification appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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MARCH 19, 2010

Siemens Corporate Technology (CT) is conducting research into clean combustion processes for future hydrogen-fired gas turbines for electricity generation. Combusting hydrogen with oxygen to obtain water and extract a large amount of energy with zero environmental pollution is still a long way off, Siemens notes.

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JUNE 29, 2021

The project selections were approved as part of the Low- or No-Emission (Low-No) Grant program, which funds the deployment of zero-emission and low-emission transit buses and supporting equipment and facilities. By retrofitting the garage to service electric buses, the agency will also lower pollution in the surrounding community.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Thermolysis, gas reforming and water-gas shift have been used in commercial industrial processes to generate hydrogen for more than 100 years. A selective membrane inside the Hygenerator filters the gases, and a pump moves pure hydrogen gas up to the wellhead. —Grant Strem, CEO of Proton Technologies.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The California Energy Commission has approved eight grants that leverage more than $9.6 Project partners will provide $1,000,000 to match the state grant. If used in a motorcycle, the resulting powertrain will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 72% and save 70 gallons of petroleum each year. Biofuel production.

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JUNE 1, 2021

We need to understand this multiphase chemistry in the atmosphere to design an efficient strategy to manage air pollution and accurately predict future air pollution and climate change impacts. The oxygen trapped in this ice provided evidence of sulfate composition from 1959 to 2015, without contamination from local pollution.

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AUGUST 4, 2019

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that 34 cleaner energy transportation projects will receive $8,489,844 in Driving PA Forward grants and rebates. In this second set of awards, the following recipients will receive grants and rebates: Statewide. Multi-county. Allegheny County. Giant Eagle, Inc.: Beaver County.

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JUNE 14, 2021

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is supporting the project with a matching grant of $41.1 Gas and technology leader Air Liquide is also participating as a fuel supplier. At the same time, they will measure the reduction of nitrogen oxide, particulate matter, and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as other pollutants.

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APRIL 23, 2014

Another is an annual clean transportation investment plan that is designed to spark innovation in projects that will help transform California’s fleet to meet greenhouse gas and clean air goals. EPIC is funded by electricity ratepayers of Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Co.

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MAY 18, 2021

megawatt hours of battery storage into the mix fully validated our assumptions for the potential for this next generation technology to further drive efficiencies and greenhouse gas reductions. illion grant from the California Air Resource Board (CARB) awarded to Wabtec, BNSF and the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.

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APRIL 9, 2014

million in grant funding for clean diesel projects at six US ports. The grants awarded today will help six ports improve air quality and reduce carbon emissions, by providing $4.2 The grants awarded today will help six ports improve air quality and reduce carbon emissions, by providing $4.2

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AUGUST 26, 2009

The vehicles and infrastructure being funded include the use of natural and renewable gas, propane, ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hybrid technologies. Like the Recovery Act-funded projects, the annual Clean Cities projects include grants for vehicles, infrastructure, and education. Total DOE award: $14,999,658.

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MAY 13, 2019

has reached agreement with trucking firms to lease or purchase more than 250 new heavy-duty trucks, fueled by its Redeem RNG (renewable natural gas). RNG reduces climate pollutants such as greenhouse gas, which takes carbon emissions completely out of trucking. Clean Energy Fuels Corp. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To reduce the number of accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections. Preliminary studies were funded by UH’s Subsea Systems Institute.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Selected Awardees will enter into two grant agreements: one with CARB to fund trucks, and one with the CEC to fund infrastructure and workforce training and development. The grant solicitation and all associated documents are available from California Energy Commission.

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MAY 19, 2022

The hydrogen generators produced by the JV under license from e1NA use methanol and water as feedstock resulting in cost effective onsite production of hydrogen and a significant reduction in carbon dioxide emissions and local air pollution when compared to gas and oil.

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AUGUST 28, 2022

The Department of the Interior awarded an initial $560 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to 24 states to begin work to plug, cap and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells. The Tribal orphaned well grant program is being informed by ongoing Tribal consultations and listening sessions. billion to plug orphaned wells.

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AUGUST 29, 2009

Another project aims to use hollow fibre membranes as a reactor to convert carbon dioxide and methane in natural gas into syngas, an intermediate product useful in the chemical industry that can be further processed to synthesize a wide range of chemicals and fuels. The by-products of this can be used as construction or landfill materials.

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JUNE 24, 2014

Funding through the organizations’ Connecting through Research Partnerships (“Connect”) program has been granted for $125,000 for this project. One of the main groups of pollutants resulting from fuel combustion is the oxides of nitrogen, or NO x.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

signed SB 1383 , establishing the nation’s toughest restrictions on super pollutants including black carbon, fluorinated gases and methane. Sources of these super pollutants include petroleum-based transportation fuels, agriculture, waste disposal and synthetic gases used in refrigeration, air conditioning and aerosol products.

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APRIL 30, 2014

UIL Holdings Corporation is a diversified energy delivery company serving more than 700,000 electric and natural gas utility customers in 66 communities across two states, with combined total assets of more than $4 billion. The site will also host an array of solar panels.

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

Long Beach Transit (LBT) recently received a $600,000 grant from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC) of the South Coast Air Quality Management District Near Zero Incentive Program for the purchase of 40 Cummins “near-zero” compressed natural gas (CNG) engines. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

This advances our ability to reduce greenhouse gases and other pollutants on a global scale. Ships generate the lion’s share of air pollution associated with port activity. Lee Kindberg, Director of Environment and Sustainability for Maersk Line.

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JUNE 25, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has awarded $20 million in grants to accelerate California’s transition to zero-emission off-road equipment in the freight, agriculture and waterborne mass transit sectors. million; Cap-and-Trade grant: $6.5 million; Grant: $5.3 million; Grant: $5.3 million; Grant: $2.8

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) is seeking public comment on a newly released draft environmental impact statement describing how offshore oil and gas activities in the US Beaufort and Chukchi seas could affect marine mammals and the Alaska Native communities that depend on them for subsistence.

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JANUARY 9, 2012

million grant to the World Resources Institute (WRI) to advance the progress of environmentally sustainable and livable cities in China, India, and Brazil. The Caterpillar Foundation is awarding a $12.5 Rapid urbanization poses substantial challenges.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

The California Air Resources Board announced a new statewide grant and loan program to help lower-income consumers across California get into the cleanest new and used cars on the market. The Clean Vehicle Assistance Program, run by the Oakland-based nonprofit Beneficial State Foundation, was launched with a $5-million CARB grant.

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MAY 13, 2010

The American Power Act, released as a discussion draft, targets reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 4.75% compared to 2005 levels by 2013; by at least 17% compared to 2005 levels by 2020; by at least 42% compared to 2005 levels by 2030; and by at least 83% compared to 2005 levels by 2050. Natural Gas.

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JULY 12, 2013

a provider of commercial transportation and supply chain management solutions, has opened the first natural gas fueling stations in its North American network to serve both the general public and Ryder lease and rental customers. million gallons of diesel annually with natural gas. Ryder System, Inc.,

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each.

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