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Archive for year: 2016

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VW receives approval for fixes on more than 800,000 cars

June 6, 2016
Source: Reuters
/in Environment, What's The Buzz staff /by Fuel Freedom Staff

Volkswagen has received regulatory approval for technical fixes on some models, it said on Friday, meaning it could now recall more than 800,000 of the 8.5 million cars affected by its diesel emissions scandal in Europe.

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Pre-1997 cars forbidden in central Paris to cut emissions

June 6, 2016
Source: Green Car Reports
/in What's The Buzz staff /by Fuel Freedom Staff

A fairly direct way to eliminate air pollution from car exhaust emissions is to simply get rid of the cars themselves.Next month, Paris officials will attempt to do just that.

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What’s ‘waste’ to the oil lobby …

June 6, 2016
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle
/in Environment, What's The Buzz staff /by Fuel Freedom Staff

Big Oil must love income inequality and our country’s shocking racial wealth gap. The industry’s latest campaign aims to perpetuate these injustices while attacking California’s efforts against climate change.

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The Tesla Model 3 effect: Nissan Leaf first victim?

June 6, 2016
Source: Forbes
/in What's The Buzz staff /by Fuel Freedom Staff

The specter of a late 2017 release of the Tesla Model 3 is already having a profound effect on sales of the world’s most popular electric car, the Nissan Leaf. At least that’s what electrek and others are suggesting.

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Six months after Paris accord, we’re losing the climate-change battle

June 6, 2016
Source: MIT Technology Review
/in Environment, What's The Buzz staff /by Fuel Freedom Staff

Since the signing of the Paris climate accord in December, have we made any progress in cutting global emissions?

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Uncharted waters: Restoring deep Gulf fouled by BP spill

June 3, 2016
Source: The Associated Press
/in What's The Buzz staff /by Fuel Freedom Staff

We’re trying to do something that we’ve never done before,” said Erik Cordes, a Temple University coral expert who’s studied the corals damaged by the spill and worked on the government’s restoration plans. “We are in uncharted waters here.”

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The Gulf oil spill left more damage than we previously thought

June 3, 2016
Source: Pacific Standard
/in Environment, What's The Buzz staff /by Fuel Freedom Staff

Oil and other contaminates from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill — one of the worst environmental disasters in history — likely lingered in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico for months longer than experts originally predicted, according to a new study.

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Looking at the sudden growth of cellulosic ethanol

June 3, 2016
Source: Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network
/in What's The Buzz staff /by Fuel Freedom Staff

In April, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a little over 1 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol was produced in the first quarter of 2016.

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Elon Musk: Supercharging will not be free for Tesla Model 3 owners

June 2, 2016
Source: Charged EVs
/in What's The Buzz staff /by Fuel Freedom Staff

Mr. Musk answered what is probably the most pressing question among the legions of future Model 3 owners: Will Supercharging be free?

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Danger below? New properties hide abandoned oil and gas wells

June 2, 2016
Source: NPR
/in What's The Buzz staff /by Fuel Freedom Staff

In many parts of the country, areas that are now full of houses and schools and shopping centers were once oil and gas fields. You wouldn’t know it by looking, but hidden underground, there are millions of abandoned wells.

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