Cleaner trucks with natural gas
To avoid another oil spill disaster like BP’s in the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama has called for jump-starting a “clean energy industry” to produce wind turbines, solar panels and energy-efficient windows…
Yet these measures don’t address the most significant cause of U.S. oil addiction: 254 million cars, buses and trucks that consume 66 percent [...]
II NGVA Europe International Show and Workshops June 7-9 – 2011- Berlin, Germany
NGV Berlin 2011, the 2nd NGVA Europe International Show & Workshops, will be held on June 7-9, 2011, in Berlin, Germany. This is an event of NGVA Europe -European NGV Association-, hosted by Erdgas Mobil -German NGV Association- and organized by NGV Communications Group, with exhibition and five workshops that will address topics of utmost [...]
NGV China 2011, will be March 29-31 in Beijing National Agricultural Exhibition Hall (New Hall)
Most influential China International NGV and Gas Station Equipment Expo(NGV China) set up since 2000, held in Beijing annually, 11 years, from home and abroad 50 countries a total of more than 1,800 exhibiting companies, the audience of 138,000 people, for our natural gas vehicles, stations of the sustainable development of the industry have made [...]
Carbon Consulting Company launches to help local corporates ‘go green’
CCC has been appointed as an approved reseller of The CarbonNeutral Company’s services, including carbon offsets and CarbonNeutral® certification. It has also developed emissions assessment capabilities that position it to effectively measure the carbon emissions produced by businesses and their products.
5th October 2010: “With Sri Lanka poised to take its place among the world’s [...]
Natural Gas-Powered 2011 Civic GX Remains Smart, Green Choice Alternative-energy vehicle based on popular Civic
First introduced in 1998 and based on the Honda Civic LX Sedan, the Civic GX runs on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and produces inherently low emissions.
Previously targeted primarily to government and fleet customers, individual retail consumers in California, New York, Utah and Oklahoma can now purchase the 2011 Civic GX through Honda dealers certified to [...]
EPA and NHTSA Issue Proposed GHG and Fuel Economy Standards for Heavy-Duty Trucks
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a joint proposed rule that would establish coordinated greenhouse gas (GHG) and fuel economy standards for heavy-duty trucks produced in model years 2014 through 2018. The standards would cover CO2, N2O, CH4, and air conditioning-related HFC emissions from tractor-trailers, “vocational [...]
L.A. METRO Public Transit Agency Contracts with Clean Energy to Operate & Maintain CNG Fueling Facilities in Four Agency Divisions
– Clean Energy Will Fuel METRO’s Entire 2,500 CNG Bus Fleet –
Seal Beach, CA (October 29, 2010) — Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq: CLNE) has secured a new 10-year contract from the L.A. County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (METRO) to operate CNG facilities that fuel METRO CNG buses deployed in the agency’s Downtown Los Angeles, San [...]
Iranian CNG Program at Crossroads
Iran’s 3rd annual NGV Conference and Exhibition, held in Tehran last month, has demonstrated considerable change in circumstances since their 2nd conference in June of last year. Iran now has more than 2 million natural gas vehicles (NGVs) on their roads, serviced by 1474 CNG fuelling stations. This makes them the second largest users of [...]
Delhi Proposes Exclusion of Diesel, Petrol and Healthcare from New India GST
Aug. 4 – The New Delhi government is proposing that diesel, petrol, compressed natural gas and health care services be excluded under India’s new Goods and Services Tax (GST) scheduled to be implemented next year.
“Several other states have also supported our view to keep petroleum products and CNG out of the ambit of GST. We [...]
China’s Emissions Won’t Peak Before Per Capita GDP Reaches US$40,000: Xie Zhenhua
China’s emissions peak is unlikely to come before the nation’s GDP per capita surpasses US$40,000, a high-ranking government official told reporters on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations climate change talks in Tianjin this week.
Xie Zhenhua, China’s top climate change official and vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, noted that some [...]