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• Biofuel companies still on shaky ground despite wins with airlines

  
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• Trusting Nature as the Climate Referee

  
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  Image by Getty Images via Daylife Imagine there’s no Copenhagen. Imagine a planet in which global warming was averted without the periodic need for thousands of people to fly around the world to promise to stop burning fossil fuels. Imagine no international conferences wrangling over the details of ...
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• Biofuel companies still on shaky ground despite wins with airlines

  
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  Bookmark this categoryWhen it comes to biofuel adoption, the airlines are way ahead of the automakers. In August, synthetic fuel maker Rentech signed a deal to 1.5 million gallons of diesel made from sewer sludge to power ground equipment for eight airlines at LAX. Today, that same company and competitor AltAir ...
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• Walhi Calls for Environmental Audit After Pertamina Sumatra Blast

  
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  Fidelis E Satriastanti, Jakarta Globe 16 Dec 09;Following a PT Pertamina pipeline accident last week that left one dead in South Sumatra, Indonesias leading green group on Monday urged the local government to conduct a thorough investigation of its impact on the environment in the area.“Our area is very prone to ...
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• Valero to Purchase 3 Ethanol Plants

  
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  Valero Energy Corp will add three more ethanol plants to their group, bringing their total production to 1.1 billion gallons per year. After these purchases, Valero will own ten ethanol plants. A $200 million agreement has been settled for two plants now owned by creditors ASA Ethanol Holdings LLC. These plants ...
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• Chevrolet Volt at the 2009 LA Auto Show

  
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  Chevrolet Also Announces Partnerships with California Utilities to Study Regional Electric Vehicle Use, Infrastructure LOS ANGELES, CA – Chevrolet announced today at the Los Angeles International Auto Show that the Volt electric vehicle will be in production in late 2010, and available for sale late next year in ...
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• UCLA Researchers Engineer Bacteria To Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Liquid Fuel (PollutionOnline)

  
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  Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels. (read here…) Related items UCLA researchers engineer bacteria to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel (EurekAlert!) Nanotubes, Ink, And Paper Make Instant Battery ...
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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
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  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
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• Electronic Recyclers International Receives Fourth Consecutive California WRAP Award for Waste Reduction

  
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  FRESNO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Electronic Recyclers, Inc. (ERI), California’s leading recycler of electronic waste, announced today that it has for the fourth consecutive year b
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• EIA Energy Outlook 2010 Reference Case Projects Moderate Growth in US Energy Consumption, Greater Use of Renewables, and Reduced Oil and Natural Gas Imports

  
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  Assuming no new policies, growth in energy-related CO 2 is driven by electricity and transportation fuel use. Source: EIA AEO2010. Click to enlarge. Existing US policies that stress energy efficiency and alternative fuels, together with higher energy prices, will curb energy consumption growth and shift the ...
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• Behind the wheel: Mitsubishi i-MIEV electric car

  
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  Photo: Mike Leung I just spent the weekend driving Mitsubishi’s promising new all-electric minicar, the i-MIEV (pronounced EYE-meev). Well, that’s not quite true. I spent the weekend charging the i-MIEV. Occasionally I drove it. Within limits, the i-MIEV is brilliant. The packaging is amazing in that for ...
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• 15 Air Carriers Sign Non-Binding MOUs on Synthetic Jet Fuel Purchases with Two Providers: AltAir and RenTech

  
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  A core group of 15 commercial airlines has signed non-binding memoranda of understanding (MOUs) for negotiating purchases from two different producers of synthetic jet fuel: AltAir Fuels LLC and RenTech Inc . These alternative fuels will be more environmentally friendly, on a life cycle basis, than today’s ...
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• MO Adds First Ethanol Blender Pump

  
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  Moscow Mills, Missouri is the site of the state’s first ethanol blender pump. Warrenton Oil Company recently unveiled four new pumps at its FastLane station at 240 College Campus Drive. The blender pumps offer E20, E30 and E85 along with gasoline. “By partnering with Missouri Corn and the Missouri Department ...
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• U.S. Energy Consumption to Grow 14% from 2008 to 2035

  
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  U.S. energy consumption is projected to grow 14 percent from 2008 to 2035, while the share of energy consumed via fossil fuels will drop from 84 percent in 2008 to 78 percent in 2035, according to an early release of “Annual Energy Outlook 2010,” a report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.While total ...
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• Danish and Brazilian Firms Team to Convert Sugar-Cane Waste Into Clean Energy

  
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  The Danish biotechnology company Novozymes A/S has said that it will work with Cetrel, one of South Americas largest industrial waste-management companies, to turn sugar-cane waste into clean energy. The research partnership is aimed at helping Brazilian sugar and ethanol production plants turn bagasse – the leafy ...
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• Africa protest hits U.N. climate talks in final week

  
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  COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A protest by African nations accusing rich countries of doing too little to cut greenhouse gas emissions slowed U.N. climate talks on Monday just four days before world leaders are due to forge a deal in Copenhagen. Protesters push and destroy a balloon during a demonstration in ...
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• New Holland Biodiesel Machine Wins Tractor of the Year

  
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  If you’ve been a reader of Domestic Fuel for any amount of time, you know how big of a supporter of biodiesel our friends at New Holland have been. Their efforts and qualities are being noticed around the world as New Holland’s T7070 Auto Command tractor has been tapped as Tractor of the Year at Agritechnica, the ...
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• Green Energy Source Like Water To Power A Car

  
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  We rely on oil to fuel our cars, For more than a century. But did you know that the world’s oil is close to drying up because it is a nonrenewable resource? Well that may not happen tomorrow or next year but we are getting closer because of the demand in the world market. Why wait for that day when we can rely on a ...
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• China burns coal as it goes green

  
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  Damian Grammaticas BBC News 14 Dec 09;Rising from the bowels of the earth are giant trucks laden with coal. One after another they lumber past. Just the wheels of each truck are double the height of a man.The engines roar as these massive machines grind up the road that climbs up from the bottom of the Pingshou open ...
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• Propane-Fueled Vans Added to the ROUSH Lineup

  
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  ROUSH is expanding its line of propane fueled vehicles with the addition of a line of E-Series vans. ROUSH will offer fuel conversion solutions for both passenger and cargo van applications. The company selected the E-Series because, “Ford has long held a leadership role in the van segment for more than 30 years ...
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