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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Significant milestone in the forestry carbon market; the first VCS forestry carbon credits have been issued on the VCS registry hosted by APX
The world’s first ever carbon credits from an Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) project developed under Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) criteria were verified and issued this week into the VCS registry system. The credits, from the Uchindile-Mapanda reforestation project developed by Green Resources in Tanzania, are exclusively available to clients of The CarbonNeutral [...]
Jersey Pearl helps provide renewable energy to aid development of Chinese province
British jewellery brand, Jersey Pearl has furthered its ethical credentials by supporting the development of the Longwangtan Hydro Power Project which provides clean energy to the province of Guizhon, China with the help of The CarbonNeutral Company.
This clean, renewable energy source supplies electricity to the entire southern Chinese power grid. Through vital projects such as [...]
Fiat’s Marchionne wants to add CNG- and LPG-powered vehicles to Chrysler’s lineup
Fiat has the highly regarded Multijet diesel engine among its offerings, and Volkswagen has been spending massive amounts of moolah to soften American hearts toward diesels. Yet in spite of those two factoids, at a recent symposium in Michigan Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne championed compressed natural gas (CNG) as a fuel he’d like to see [...]
Japan vows on climate bill, biodiversity goal
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s environment minister said on Tuesday he aimed to pass a climate bill soon and forge ahead with plans to launch an emissions trading scheme but gave few clues on how to win help from opposition parties in a divided parliament.
Environment Minister Ryu Matsumoto also said a U.N. meeting in Japan this [...]
Deutsche Post DHL adopts Iveco ECODAILY Electric for environmentally-friendly transport
On September 22, Deutsche Post DHL, the world’s leading mail and logistics group, will be symbolically receiving the first Iveco ECODAILY Electric at the International Commercial Vehicle Show (IAA) in Hanover. The 10 vehicles will be deployed as of 2011 in parcel delivery at various locations in Germany, including Berlin, Bonn, Düsseldorf and Hamburg.
Deutsche [...]