Slowing climate change will require vastly more carbon capture, study says
Countries will need far more capacity to capture carbon and store it to reach their emissions reductions goals as outlined in the Paris agreement, study concludes.
Archive for year: 2017
This company wants to convert used clothing into fuel
At the end of the movie Back to the Future, mad scientist Emmett “Doc” Brown reappears with his time-traveling DeLorean, newly powered by garbage thanks to a fictional recycling reactor from the future called Mr. Fusion.
Buffett’s BNSF cuts ethanol shipper costs amid push for safer train cars
BNSF Railway Co will start offering discounts to ethanol shippers this April if they agree to use new, safer train cars, as it pushes to scrub puncture-prone ones from its rail lines at a faster pace than required by U.S. regulations.
Analysts see oil prices rising as OPEC production cut bears fruit
Analysts are raising their oil price forecasts for the first time in five months, even as they continue to see a plethora of risks for this market.
Hawaii bill aims for 100 percent renewable transportation
Hawaii has the most aggressive renewable energy targets in the nation, aiming for its utilities to get 100 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2045.
GM to cut 625 jobs in Canada, move some work to Mexico: union
General Motors Co will cut 625 jobs at its auto assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, by the end of July as it moves some production work to Mexico, the president of Canada’s largest auto workers union said on Friday.
Auto efficiency debate revived with pledge to slash rules
President Donald Trump’s pledge to ease environmental regulations hands automakers a second chance to amend the U.S. vehicle efficiency standards that the Obama administration sought to finalize in its final days.
A computer program that learns how to save fuel
From avoiding jaywalkers to emergency braking to eventually, perhaps, chauffeuring the vehicle itself, it is clear that artificial intelligence (AI) will be an important part of the cars of the future
U.S. biofuels credits drop as EPA delay uncertainty grips market
Prices of paper credits used to meet U.S. biofuels standards dropped to over one-year lows on Wednesday, extending the previous day’s slide on news of a government freeze that heightened uncertainty over the program.
How Paris will ban the dirtiest diesels: color-coded stickers
Yesterday, analyses of the air in several parts of France showed it contained high levels of ultrafine particles emitted by road vehicles.
