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Is this a “Fossil” Fools’ Day prank?
April 01, 2008
How appropriate that some members of Congress today dropped a bill to repeal a “clean fuel” federal procurement law from the Energy Bill that passed last year. This clean fuel provision (Section 526 of the Energy Bill) was put in...
California Tells Automakers to Bring Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles to the Showroom
March 30, 2008
Tens of thousands of plug-in hybrid vehicles will start hitting the roads in 2012 due to last Thursday’s decision by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). In an update of the Zero Emission Vehicle program, CARB established plug-in hybrids as...
California Air Resources Board ZEV decision puts us on the road to solving global warming
March 28, 2008
This election season, the issue of “just words” has been hotly debated. Do words like “zero emissions” matter when it comes to solving pollution problems? Of course. But equally as important are the facts. To the environment, “zero emissions” are...
Biogasoline and the search for renewable fuels that fit better
March 26, 2008
Today Shell and a small biofuels start-up called Virent announced their collaboration on "biogasoline." According to the press release (here's the link to the free press kit): Virent's BioFormingTM platform technology uses catalysts to convert plant sugars into hydrocarbon molecules...
The infrastructure crisis: fix it first, fund it, and be strategic
March 25, 2008
The nationally syndicated writer Neal Peirce has a great column out this week on the nation’s infrastructure woes. It basically confirms what we all have thought as we drive over ridiculously broken roads, try to crowd into too-few buses or...
