Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

BP and JM have developed a simple-to-operate and cost-advantaged FT technology that can operate both at large and small scale economically to convert synthesis gas, generated from sources such as municipal solid waste and other renewable biomass, into long-chain hydrocarbons suitable for the production of diesel and jet fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2016

Tesoro Corporation plans to foster the development of biocrude, made from renewable biomass, which can be co-processed in its existing refineries along with conventional fossil crude oil to produce lower-carbon drop-in fuels. Virent, Inc.: Earlier post.).

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Electrek

MAY 18, 2022

GE Renewable Energy yesterday announced the 3 megawatt (MW) Sierra , its newest onshore wind turbine platform that will only be sold in North America. The post GE launches the 3 MW Sierra onshore wind turbine just for North America appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Fulcrum BioEnergy has selected Gary, Indiana as the location of its Centerpoint BioFuels Plant, which will convert municipal solid waste (MSW) into low-carbon, renewable transportation fuel. In late 2017, Fulcrum began construction on the Sierra BioFuels Plant located near Reno, Nevada.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Fulcrum’s Sierra BioFuels Plant to enter the final phase of DOE’s Loan Guarantee Program. The Sierra BioFuels Plant will be located approximately 20 miles east of Reno, Nevada in Storey County. Earlier post.) The plant will produce 10.5 James Macias, Fulcrum President and CEO.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 30, 2021

The 2021 GMC Sierra 1500 Duramax 4WD Crew Cab AT4 CarbonPro showed-up in my driveway and the neighbors took notice. recently drove the 2021 GMC Sierra 1500 4WD Crew Cab AT4, powered by a 3.0-liter Weighing in at 5,640 pounds, the Sierra 1500 AT4 has a maximum payload of 1,810 pounds and can tow 8,800 pounds. Brains and brawn.

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Sierra GMC Fuel Economy MPG 98

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2015

US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will invest up to $100 million in a Biofuels Infrastructure Partnership to support the infrastructure needed to make more renewable fuel options available to American consumers. USDA will post a Notice of Solicitation of Applications in June.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2014

The Cool Planet plant will produce approximately 8 million to 10 million gallons of high-octane, renewable gasoline blendstocks (reformate), as well the biochar, all made from sustainable wood residues. The output from each catalytic array when cooled is comprised of volatile gases, renewable fuel and water. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2016

Fulcrum BioEnergy, the parent company of Fulcrum Sierra BioFuels, has applied for a new fuel pathway under the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCSF) for its process of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into Fischer-Tropsch (“FT”) diesel fuel. For 2016, the target for diesel and diesel substitutes is 99.97 gCO 2 e/MJ ( Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2015

Fulcrum BioEnergy has awarded a $200-million fixed-price engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Abengoa for the construction of Fulcrum’s first municipal solid waste (MSW) to transportation fuels facility, the Sierra BioFuels Plant. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Sierra Gas United States Waste 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Fulcrum’s first MSW-to-fuels facility, Sierra BioFuels, located near Reno, Nev. Fulcrum’s process combines gasification technology with a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) fuel process for the efficient, low-cost production of renewable transportation fuels. Founded in Pleasanton, Calif.,

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Waste Carbon Fuel Production 243

Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Green groups like Communities For A Better Environment, Food & Water Watch and Sierra Club had worked for this critical win for many year and it was beautiful to be there to see their leaders gobsmacked by the great news. Instead of being there as opponents, the Mayor invited environmentalists to stand with him in support.

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Los Angeles Chevron Climate Pollution 268

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

In a worst case, Chu said, up to 90% of the Sierra snowpack could disappear, all but eliminating a natural storage system for water vital to agriculture. “I I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen,” he said.

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Climate Change Climate California Los Angeles 150

Green Car Reports

JULY 26, 2017

The White House's energy week may have been low on renewable and zero emission technology, but National Drive Electric Week is poised to make up for it. Each year, Plug In America, the Electric Auto Association, and the Sierra Club join forces to implement one week of electric car events, parades, and education.

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Sierra Plug-in Electrical Electric 121

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

Climate & Renewables North America, LLC (E.ON) signed an agreement with Tucson Electric Power (TEP) to provide frequency response and voltage control from a grid-scale, 10 megawatt (MW) battery energy storage facility with a 2 MW solar array. MW solar facility at the Fort Huachuca Army Base near Sierra Vista, Arizona.

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Tucson Arizona Energy Storage Battery 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2017

The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Advanced Manufacturing Office’s High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program enables innovation in US manufacturing through the adoption of high performance computing (HPC) to advance applied science and technology relevant to manufacturing. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

This will include building new sites connecting regional destinations, such as supporting travel to the Sierra Mountain communities and destinations like Lake Havasu. The Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy at the Department of Energy reports that EV drivers conduct “more than 80 percent of their charging at home.”

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2015

The application is California’s first utility pilot proposal to help develop charging infrastructure, and, through pricing that allows for customer-managed charging, to manage transportation electrification load to support the evolving needs of an electrical grid increasingly dominated by variable renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Nonprofit organizations, including the Sierra Club, CALSTART, NextGen Policy Center, The Greenlining Institute and World Resources Institute. Others: AECOM, Uber, Lyft, California New Car Dealers Association, Center for Sustainable Energy, EDF Renewable Energy, Electric Power Research Institute, Hubject, PlugShare and Proterra.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2013

In 2012, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a $105-million loan guarantee to Fulcrum Sierra BioFuels, LLC to finance development of a facility to convert municipal solid waste into advanced biofuels. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2018

Advanced Energy Economy, Energy Foundation, Illinois Citizen Utility Board, Natural Resources Defense Council, Plug-in America and Sierra Club worked with diverse stakeholder and business interests to draft the Accord. Electrified transportation should include, not only passenger cars, but also larger vehicles (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This will include building new sites connecting regional destinations, such as supporting travel to the Sierra Mountain communities and destinations like Lake Havasu. The Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy at the Department of Energy reports that EV drivers conduct ‘more than 80% of their charging at home.’

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America California Emissions Vehicles 239

Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 16, 2007

I hereby propose just such an overarching message, a mere five words long: Use renewably generated electricity, efficiently, or URGE². Putting renewable electricity into plug-in cars would move to the top of any such coherent enviro agenda, and of course ethanol moves down. What doesn't should be ignored or opposed.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 19, 2007

And the grid is getting cleaner and more renewable every year. You can dig around the websites of NRDC, UCS and the Sierra Club and come to understand that an electric path would be best for all of us, but their advocacy has not reflected the science.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

Photo: Kari Nousiainen/Flickr Vermont today passed a bill that requires 100% renewable electricity across all the state’s utilities by 2035, and it’s expected to become law. 289 , “An act relating to the Renewable Energy Standard,” was passed in both the State House and Senate today with veto-proof majorities. Standout features of H.289

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 19, 2007

Bush started the day signing the energy bill that Nancy Pelosi called "earth-shattering change in terms of energy policy" and Sierra Club's Carl Pope said "is a clean break with the failed energy policies of the past and puts us on the path toward a cleaner, greener energy future."

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EPA Tax Credit Sierra Wind 100

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Defendant-intervenors were the Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, and the Conservation Law Foundation. 111); Order On Defendant’s Renewed Fed. Plaintiffs in the consolidated action are Rocky Mountain Farmers Union (RMFU); Redwood County Minnesota Corn and Soybean Growers; Penny Newman Grain, Inc.; Brown, Jr.,

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

Showing Sierra Club bigwig, Evan Gillespie how much cargo room our car has. The 2007 EV Parade in Santa Monica with State Senator Fran Pavley. The service guys at Martin Chevy confirmed it, and because section 3 replacements were on backorder they replaced the entire propulsion battery with a brand new one, again under warranty.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 22, 2010

Scientific studies comparing the emissions from a gas car's tailpipe and the electric car's smokestack, so to speak, range from "a wash" (all coal) to "a big win" for the electric car (natural gas, hydro, nuclear, renewables or even a combination including some coal.) Instead, Big Enviro has gone down the rat hole of diminishing returns.

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Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2023

The Sierra Estrella energy storage facility, constructed by utility company Salt River Project (SRP) and energy system constructor Plus Power LLC, will be the largest of its kind in Arizona. This comes as Arizona attempts to become a leader in the use of renewable energy generation systems. According to the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The confirmation of Scott Pruitt as Environmental Protection Agency administrator was expected to rankle environmental groups. Pruitt is a climate-science denier who, in his previous position as Oklahoma attorney general, sued the agency he is now charged with many multiple times over its efforts to enforce environmental regulations.

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Sierra Oklahoma EPA Climate 60

Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Sierra Club, NRDC, UCS and Friends of the Earth each raised serious questions about the direction of the ZEV regulation, signaling a renewed interest in plug-in electric vehicles for the near-term GHG reduction benefit that could be achieved.

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Plug-in Plug Hydrogen America 100

Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

If an EV is charged with electricity that is generated from renewable sources (such as solar, wind, geothermal, or hydroelectric), then there are no fossil fuel emissions associated with that charging or driving process. According to the US Energy Information Administration: “In 2022, renewable energy sources accounted for about 13.1%

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2010

For the demonstrators, Ricardo plans to modify two GM Sierra 3500 HD heavy-duty pickup trucks and replace a base 6-liter gasoline V-8 in one with the heavily boosted 3.2-liter liter EBDI engine—resulting in up to a 16.8% fuel economy improvement. —Kent Niederhofer, President of Ricardo.

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Engine Fuel Economy Energy Gasoline 218

Plug in America

MARCH 25, 2022

” The bad news is that our application wasn’t accepted. and EVHybridNoire. . Photo, top: Senator Fran Pavley at parade press conference, 2009. Courtesy Zan Dubin-Scott.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 5, 2009

Another of our accomplishments that we’re very proud of is, having picked up a brochure in 2006 at the Sierra Club table, we found out about the Cool Cities program. I’m the conservation chair of the Audubon Society and they’ve been a great friend and supporter of EPN. They coined that name.

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Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2022

For example, organizations such as the Sierra Club and the World Wildlife Fund aspire to make the world carbon-neutral in 30 to 40 years. Renewables such as solar, wind, and hydroelectricity. With this very broad footprint, we can help to bring together organizations working on various aspects of climate change and possible solutions.

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