Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

Through data transparency and accessibility, the product passport initiative seeks to raise awareness and encourage environmentally friendly action across all parties involved in a product’s lifecycle: manufacturers, distributors, and end consumers.

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Charged

JANUARY 4, 2023

John Vo, the former Manufacturing Chief at Tesla, has formed a company to manufacture electric boats. The company has established a manufacturing site in Pinellas Park, Florida (next door to Charged ’s home city of St Petersburg). kW of solar power for recharging. Maximum speed is expected to be around 39 knots.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Instead, it was Erik Fyrwald, Chief Executive Officer of Syngenta Group — one of world’s five largest pesticides manufacturers, a major consumer of fossil fuels, and now a company marketing its products as a solution to climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 25, 2020

The women are accused of terrorizing oil and gas lobbyists by giving them a file box full of plastic pellets found in Texas bays near a plastic manufacturing facility owned by Formosa Plastics,” NOLA.com reports. Tags: Louisiana Bucket Brigade Formosa St. The two posted bond and were released later the same day. “

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Read time: 5 mins Citing design changes, Shell Chemical Appalachia has asked Pennsylvania’s state regulators to issue air permits that would allow the company’s massive plastics manufacturing plant under construction outside Pittsburgh to emit significantly more climate and other air pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2019

That study, released earlier this month by CDP and the World Benchmarking Alliance ( WBA ), looked at 25 leading auto manufacturers and graded each company on its overall alignment with the transition to a low-carbon economy. Tags: auto alliance clean car standards world benchmarking alliance

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2020

But huge numbers of the pellets, which were made by Dow Chemical and are melted down to manufacture plastic products, still line the river banks in New Orleans and further afield. . Tags: plastics nurdles Formosa Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ)

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 18, 2020

Tags: transportation fairness alliance electric vehicles FTI Consulting American Petroleum Institute American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2021

The facility would process fracked natural gas into methanol, a liquid chemical that can be used as fuel or for manufacturing plastics, and ship the flammable product down the Columbia River for export to Asia. Tags: Kalama washington state Jay Inslee petrochemical development

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

Mika Takahashi, Technology Analyst at market intelligence firm IDTechEx reviews highlights from a new report on an emerging sector Electric vehicles are no longer a niche oddity but fully mainstream, with many automotive manufacturers announcing targets to phase out ICE construction in favor of BEVs (battery electric vehicles).

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

Electromechanical repair specialist, Fletcher Moorland Ltd, has launched an initiative to support the younger generation entering engineering, design, and manufacturing careers. The initiative aims to “put decent tools in the hands of apprentices and young engineers,” says MD Matt Fletcher.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2020

billion plastics manufacturing complex proposed for the historically black area of St. Tags: cancer alley Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) Formosa plastics petrochemical development Read time: 23 mins This report was produced as part of ivoh’s Restorative Narrative Fellowship. James Parish.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Los Angeles-based automotive manufacturer Harbinger has unveiled a new platform for Class 4 to Class 7 EVs. Better technology often comes with outrageous price tags, and we’re seeing today’s medium-duty EVs performing for half the life of today’s ICE vehicles at triple the cost,” adds Harris.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2020

Tags: Honolulu Hawaii climate liability Manufacturers' Accountability Project

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 23, 2020

Despite governments around the world claiming they want to support low-carbon industries in the wake of COVID -19, many have prioritised airlines and plane manufacturers for bailouts with no green strings attached — giving or lending money to some of the world’s biggest polluters.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Digital transparency company Everledger has launched what they tout as a world-first battery passport pilot with automotive manufacturer Ford Motor Company to ensure responsible recycling of EV batteries. It is not only large auto manufacturers that can benefit from improved lifecycle management and verified claims of recycling.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

billion plastics manufacturing complex in St. Tags: cancer alley petrochemical development Wanhua Chemical Read time: 5 mins Chinese giant Wanhua Chemical officially withdrew its plans to build a $1.25 James, Louisiana, in the heart of the already industrialized Cancer Alley. The news bought relief to opponents of the plant. . “

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Read time: 8 mins Dark Waters , the new film starring Mark Ruffalo as attorney Rob Bilott, is set in the Ohio River Valley city of Parkersburg, West Virginia — a place about 150 miles downstream from where Shell is currently building a sprawling plastics manufacturing plant, known as an “ethane cracker,” in Beaver, Pennsylvania.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2020

Supreme Court Manufacturers Accountability Project FTI Consulting Energy In Depth chris horner Tags: climate liability U.S.

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Charged

JULY 23, 2021

Several manufacturers, including Volvo , Lion , BYD and Daimler , have electric Class 8 trucks on the road, at least in pilot operations, but none of them have anything like the specs that Tesla has promised. Tesla has said that it plans to use the first few Semis for its own operations.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 30, 2019

But with the arrival of Shell and its $6 billion plastics manufacturing plant, currently under construction in Beaver County, the conservation district assumed more serious responsibilities than throwing a maple syrup festival — including permitting the fossil fuel pipelines feeding the massive plastics complex.

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Charged

JUNE 1, 2020

Tritium , an Australia-based manufacturer of DC fast charging stations, has incorporated Plug & Charge technology into its products. Plug & Charge, based on the ISO 15118 standard, enables direct communication between an EV and a charger, eliminating the need for a card or RFID tag.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

With a no-nonsense design, powerful specs and a $125,000 price tag, Bollinger’s B1 Sport Utility Truck and B2 Pickup Truck are clearly not aimed at the mass market, but at truck connoisseurs. Bollinger says it will work with an unnamed manufacturing partner to build the DELIVER-E vans and trucks in the US. Source: Bollinger Motors.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

Tags: disinformation COVID-19 pr tobacco American Petroleum Institute Edelman Public Relations astroturfing

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

10 years on, this five-part series looks back at the key players that manufactured the scandal that came to be known as 'Climategate': Series — Climategate @ 10 Tags: Climategate But it made the research — and researchers — stronger than ever.

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Charged

OCTOBER 22, 2021

A $30k price tag, just about 5 grand above the current MSRP of the legacy Equinox, would be an eye-opener. “We It also says that 50 percent of its North American and Chinese manufacturing facilities will be capable of EV production by 2030. This Chevy will be a high-volume player when it arrives priced at approximately $30,000.”.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Instead, it is often blended with diesel and tagged based on the amount of diesel it’s mixed with. It is also used in the agriculture, farming, construction, and manufacturing industry. Though it had a slow start, Edmunds found that its production has risen from 25 million gallons in 2005 to 1.7 billion gallons in 2013.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The key price point for battery packs to become cheap enough for manufacturers to produce mass market EVs for around the same price tag as typical petrol and diesel vehicles is thought to be around $100/kWh, and BNEF yesterday estimated prices could hit that tipping point as soon as 2024.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

People who sign up to the initiative will pay £30 a month for one of the bike manufacturer's iconic folding bikes if they sign up for a 12-month contract, or £42 a month for a rolling monthly contract. Both schemes include free insurance for theft and damage and two services a year. to hire a bike for a day, or £3.50

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

PragmatIC says its technology could allow a low-cost inlay (tag) to be incorporated in packaging, allowing consumers to access information about product usage, food storage, cooking instructions and local recycling. Finding the solution through innovative technology.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Just as vehicle manufacturers seem to be getting exhaust emissions under control, the impact of non-exhaust emissions is becoming a comparably serious problem. With its sub-$500 price tag, Alphasense’s OPC-N3 and OPC-R2 devices qualified to participate in their own right. Whilst both can penetrate deep into the lungs, PM2.5

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GreenTech Gazette

MARCH 23, 2023

The manufacturing of this vehicle series is completed in Cologne, Germany based new plan, Ford. Therefore, people are likely to find this luxury car more luxurious than its other competitor Mustang Mach-E with a price tag of €62,900 in Europe. As per European standards, it follows a two-row type mid-size crossover mechanism.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

This week's auction saw six firms win a chunk of the 700MW of contracts on offer, with the biggest deal going to South Korean solar panel manufacturer Hanwha Q Cells, which is set to deliver 315MW of new capacity. Spanish energy giants Iberdrola and Endesa each won an allotment from the auction, while German energy firm TAG took away two.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

As such, it said that once EVs achieve price-tag parity with petrol and diesel vehicles, drivers would rapidly switch towards electric mobility, leaving the electric car market poised for exponential growth in the coming years. EV sales in the UK are now expected to double in 2022 , on the back of the record year experienced in 2021.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The firm is then preparing to expand its dedicated EV manufacturing capacity around the world, building on its current sites in Michigan (F-150), Missouri (E-Transit), Canada (SUVs), and Mexico and China (Mach-E), it said.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 20, 2020

With two turbines, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot is tiny; and with a price tag of $300 million, it’s very expensive for a generation facility of its size. The turbines were manufactured by Siemens Gamesa in Denmark and the foundations by EEW in Germany. A tiny project in a market obsessed with scale.

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Econaur

AUGUST 30, 2021

This week we present the Flashback story of Dholavira, the archaeological site of a Harappan-era city, whi ch received the UNESCO world heritage site tag on Tuesday. It was also a hub of manufacturing jewellery made of shells and semi-precious stones, like agate and used to export timber. Dholavira site. Distinct features.

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