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Green Fleet Roundup: Ford, Rolls Royce, Nissan, Nestle

July 16, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Ford C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid vehicles (pictured) are hitting Europe’s roads in support of a Ford-led €13.2 million ($17.25 million) study into electric vehicles in urban areas. Seventeen C-MAX Energi vehicles form part of a fleet of 66 Ford EVs that will be integrated into the transport infrastructure of Cologne, ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Oil Spill Loopholes, McCarthy Vote

July 12, 2013July 12, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Gina McCarthy’s nomination for EPA administrator could face a Senate vote on Tuesday, after majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) yesterday filed for cloture, the Hill reports. But procedural battles continue, with Reid threatening to use the “nuclear option,” by changing Senate rules to bar a filibuster. A loophole and declining revenues have cut ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Farmer Data Concerns, Honeywell Uranium Plant

July 8, 2013July 8, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

The American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Pork Producers Council are suing the Obama administration over concerns that the agency, responding to environmental groups’ information request on water pollution, may release thousands of farmers and ranchers’ personal information. In April the EPA released data on about 80,000 farmers and ranchers, including ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EPA Drops Study, Groups Sue Over Smog

June 21, 2013June 30, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

The EPA yesterday dropped plans to further study the effect of natural gas drilling on a Wyoming aquifer. A draft agency report in late 2011 found that hydraulic fracturing fluid had likely contaminated groundwater, a finding that prompted an industry backlash. Following several delays, the EPA now says it will ... Read more »

UPS Expands Natural Gas Fleet

April 23, 2013April 23, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

UPS today announced it will purchase about 700 liquefied natural gas 18-wheelers and build four refueling stations to serve its heavy-weight rigs by the end of 2014. UPS has more than 1,000 natural gas vehicles worldwide. Natural gas prices — which are 30 to 40 percent lower than imported diesel ... Read more »

DOE Solar Process Adds Energy to Natural Gas

April 16, 2013April 15, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is developing a process that uses sunshine to increase the amount of energy in natural gas. Installing PNNL’s system in front of natural gas power plants turns them into hybrid solar-gas facilities. The system uses solar heat to convert natural gas into syngas, ... Read more »

Growth in Natural Gas Vehicles Will Have ‘Minimal Impact’ on Prices

April 15, 2013April 23, 2013 by Leon Walker

A transition to natural gas-fueled heavy duty and light duty vehicles over the next decade will have a minimal impact on natural gas prices, according to research by the American Clean Skies Foundation. Driving on Natural Gas: Fuel Price and Demand Scenarios for Natural Gas Vehicles to 2025 used three scenarios ... Read more »

Alternative Transport Fuel Use Jumps 13%

April 10, 2013April 10, 2013 by Leon Walker

Alternative transportation fuel consumption increased almost 13 percent in 2011 to a total of 515.9 million gasoline-equivalent gallons, according to the US Energy Information Administration. In 2010, alternative transportation fuels totaled 457.7 million gasoline-equivalent gallons. In alternative-fueled vehicles, consumption of ethanol jumped 52 percent from the prior year’s consumption, an ... Read more »

Gallup: Americans Want More Energy from Solar, Wind, Natural Gas

April 2, 2013April 2, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A Gallup poll conducted in March found 76 percent of Americans want more domestic energy from solar power, followed by wind (71 percent) and natural gas (65 percent). Only 46 percent of survey respondents want to emphasize the production of oil and 37 percent want more nuclear power, while coal ... Read more »

GM to Cut Vehicle Weight ‘Up to 15%’ by 2017

March 11, 2013March 11, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Motors will save 12 billion gallons of fuel over the life of the vehicles it builds between 2011 and 2017 by reducing vehicle weight by up to 15 percent, along with other fuel efficiency improvements, GM CEO and chairman Dan Akerson said in a speech at the IHS CERAWeek ... Read more »

Natural Gas ‘Will Reshape American Manufacturing’

December 14, 2012April 23, 2013 by Leon Walker

Favorable oil-to-gas price ratios driven by the production of natural gas from shale will fuel a renewed US competitiveness that will boost exports, and fuel greater domestic investment, economic growth and job creation within the business of chemistry, according to research by the American Chemistry Council. Though rising uncertainty over ... Read more »

Qatar Jets to Fly on Natural Gas

October 26, 2012October 26, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Qatar Airways’ new Doha International Airport, scheduled to open in 2013, will pump airline fuel made from natural gas from Royal Dutch Shell’s gas-to-liquids plant, New York Times reports. The plant (pictured), called Pearl, jointly developed by Qatar Petroleum and Shell, produces up to 140,000 barrels a day of gas-to-liquid products, including ... Read more »

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