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Researchers Discover Process That Could Lead to the Widespread Replacement of Petrochemicals With Bio Based Materials

New process could allow many of today's petrochemical products, including plastics, to instead be made from biomass

17 Jun 2009

Climate Change Report Includes Assessment by Arizona State University Professor

Arizona State University professor Nancy Grimm is one of the authors of a new and authoritative federal study assessing the current and anticipated domestic impacts of climate change

16 Jun 2009

Climate Change Impacts on Where Americans Live and Work

Climate change is visible and occurring throughout the U.S., but the choices we make now will determine the severity of its impacts in the future, according to a Texas Tech University climate scientist who served as a lead author on a report released today by the White House

16 Jun 2009

Kenworth Trucks Honored By US EPA With Clean Air Excellence Award

Kenworth Truck Company was recently honored by the Environmental Protection Agency with the prestigious Clean Air Excellence Award. The EPA recognized Kenworth's outstanding innovative efforts and progress in developing advanced environmentally friendly vehicles

16 Jun 2009

Mack Takes Hybrid Truck to Washington for "Hybrid on the Hill Day"

Mack Trucks, Inc. last week gave federal legislators and policymakers a first-hand look at its industry-leading parallel diesel-electric hybrid technology for heavy-duty trucks. The Mack hybrid technology provides up to a 30% fuel economy improvement in stop-and-go applications

15 Jun 2009

Ethanol Expansion Completed by Sunoco

Sunoco, Inc announced today that it has completed the previously announced purchase of a 100 million gallons-per-year ethanol manufacturing facility in Volney, New York from Northeast Biofuels, LP for $8.5 million

15 Jun 2009

Environmentally Friendly Manufacturing Process Key to Grant Application for Battery Manufacturing

International Battery (IB), a U.S. manufacturer, designer, and developer of large-format lithium-ion rechargeable cells and batteries, today announced that it has submitted an application for a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Recovery Act – Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative

15 Jun 2009

Aqua-Tech Paint System From Mazda Reduces Their Environmental Impact

Mazda Motor Corporation today announced the successful launch of the newly developed Aqua-tech Paint System. The innovative new technology achieves the world’s highest standards for limiting emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC) contained in paint as well as carbon dioxide (CO2) gas generated

15 Jun 2009

Hybrid Vehicles Get Even More Efficient

A new system has been designed for hybrid vehicles that modifies the structure of conventional cars to introduce elements that help to recover energy lost during braking and then return it to the propulsion of the vehicle

12 Jun 2009

Filling Stations of the Future Come to Germany With Changing Points For Electric Vehicles Being Rolled Out

The RWE Group and APCOA Autoparking GmbH are entering into a partnership in the area of electric mobility. The two companies are launching a joint roll-out of charging points for electric cars in publicly accessible parking areas in Berlin

11 Jun 2009