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The green climate fund (GCF) refused an explicit ban on fossil fuel projects at the contentious meeting in Songdo,...

While overall financing of fossil fuel projects at the World Bank has gone down in recent years, support for projects that include exploration for fossil fuels has continued to rise.

The «Banking on Climate Change» report finds that 2016 actually saw a steep fall in bank funding for extreme fossil fuels — however despite this overall reduction, banks are still funding extreme fossil fuel projects at a rate that will push us beyond the 1.5 degrees climate change limit determined by the Paris Climate Agreement.

«I think states recognize transportation emissions are a leading source of emissions that need to be tackled,» said Luke Tonachel, director of the clean vehicles and fuels project at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

«These market shifts are happening independent of the standards — they likely would have happened anyway,» explains Luke Tonachel, director of the clean vehicles and fuels project at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Not exact matches

Decmil Group has won about $ 40 million worth of work at Hancock Prospecting's Roy Hill iron ore project in the Pilbara, building on its portfolio of port, rail and fuel infrastructure work already under way at the site.

But by 1974, with fuel prices soaring and development costs estimated at $ 2 billion to $ 3 billion, Boeing's partner in the project, International Husky, couldn't find enough customers for the 754, and the project was canceled.

Serial entrepreneurs Shindo and Taft branched out to solar and polysilicon materials when their original focus, the fuel cell industry, didn't grow at the projected rate.

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

It's this month and the proliferation of Non-GMO Project signs at Natural Products Expo East and West that are fueling continued enrollment in the Project each day.

Potential energy generating projects only become viable at high COD loading rates or in areas where power and fuel is expensive — this is already the case in many Asia - Pacific markets and is increasingly the trend worldwide.

Our work at the Non-GMO Project is fueled by our shared belief that our diverse genetic inheritance is essential to human and environmental health and ecological harmony.

At National Grid we're using all the tools we have at our disposal to play a part in the fight against fuel poverty but it's incumbent upon all of us in the energy industry to reach out, form partnerships and develop joined - up projects if we are to fully address the issue and make fuel poverty a thing of the pasAt National Grid we're using all the tools we have at our disposal to play a part in the fight against fuel poverty but it's incumbent upon all of us in the energy industry to reach out, form partnerships and develop joined - up projects if we are to fully address the issue and make fuel poverty a thing of the pasat our disposal to play a part in the fight against fuel poverty but it's incumbent upon all of us in the energy industry to reach out, form partnerships and develop joined - up projects if we are to fully address the issue and make fuel poverty a thing of the past.

Also at noon, Food & Water Watch, New York Renews and the Sane Energy Project hold a rally and march for an end to fossil fuel projects, a transition to 100 percent renewable energy and a plan to make polluters pay for the damage they have caused, 79 Sheridan Ave., Albany.

The message: Cuomo is fully on board with those environmentalists who seek to block any project involving any use or expanded access to fossil fuels of any kind, at any time, in any place in New York State.

It will provide at least one not for profit agency in each of the four National Grid Gas Distribution Areas with up to # 100k funding to design and deliver a project bringing tangible and lasting benefits to low - income households in fuel poverty.

The shooting death of a New York City police officer is fueling concerns of increased violence at an East Harlem housing project.

Storage and export facilities at Shuaiba will be used in an ongoing clean fuels project in the Gulf country, the official added.

At the same time, Astorino was commended for his push to convert the county vehicle fleet to hybrid or alternative - fuel vehicles as well as flood mitigation projects.

They oppose all new fossil fuel infrastructure, such as the publicly - opposed methane gas storage expansion project at Crestwood.

Other goals include increased funding for nuclear weapons research; increased research on nanotechnology; space station, moon, and Mars projects at NASA; work on hydrogen fuels; and support for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion project.

Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a power plant dubbed GreenGen.

Nuclear fuel processing, the work that would have been done at the proposed Jiangmen project, poses little risk to public health, according to industry experts and the industry lobby group, the World Nuclear Association.

The study was in fact funded by the European project ChipCAT, which aims at finding novel materials for the next generation of fuel cells.

«Superior hydrogen catalyst just grows that way: Project aim at reducing cost of hydrogen fuel cells.»

A new biofuels project at Abu Dhabi's Masdar Institute of Science and Technology will search for a system to produce fuel from biomass and seawater

The report, published this week by the Environmental Integrity Project, found that between 2010 and July 2014 at least 351 wells were fracked by 33 different companies using diesel fuels without a permit.

The former nuclear weapons facility at Savannah River, Ga. — also part of the Manhattan Project — has been successfully vitrifying weapons waste for years, but only one fuel separation process was used there.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is hoping it can help scientists get much better at modifying the metabolic and genetic machinery of cells to produce useful products such as fuels.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are set to rise again in 2013, reaching a record high of 36 billion tonnes — according to new figures from the Global Carbon Project, co-led by researchers from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia.

«The fuel - cell industry has largely moved beyond one - off demonstration projects towards pre-commercialization and even commercialization in certain markets,» said Bud DeFlaviis, director of government affairs at the Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy Associatfuel - cell industry has largely moved beyond one - off demonstration projects towards pre-commercialization and even commercialization in certain markets,» said Bud DeFlaviis, director of government affairs at the Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy AssociatFuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy Association.

Global fossil - fuel emissions, like the CO2 emitted from the natural - gas flare at this North Dakota oil well, could show a decline this year, says a Stanford - led Global Carbon Project report.

A study projects 130 future cancer deaths from the meltdowns at the reactors in Fukushima last year, but does that suggest nuclear power is safer than fossil fuel alternatives?

And, although a few projects such as the Sleipner gas field in the North Sea or oil fields owned by the EnCana Corporation in Calgary, Alberta have proved that CO2 can be pumped underground and remain trapped below cap rock, they are aimed at enhancing recovery of the fossil fuels in those fields rather than permanently storing the greenhouse gas.

Established by the Energy Department's Fuel Cell Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliaFueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliafueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliability.

«CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and industry did not really change from 2014 to 2016,» says climate scientist Pierre Friedlingstein at the University of Exeter in England, and an author of the 2017 carbon budget report released by the Global Carbon Project in November.

This project, Plant STEM for K - 12 Education, will incorporate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) into activities that encourage children at eight public schools to learn more about plants» roles in ecosystems, their uses for medicine, materials and fuels.

Johnson Controls is partnering with the College of Engineering and the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee on two multi-year research projects aimed at enhancing the vehicle fuel efficiency.

As a long as we keep burning fossil fuels at current rates, the concentrations will keep rising like this,» Ralph Keeling, the scientists in charge of the Mauna Loa monitoring project, told Climate Central earlier this month.

«We were studying agostic bonds in a project to make liquid fuels like methanol from carbon dioxide to replace fuels we get from oil,» said chemist Morris Bullock at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

The project, which will co-produce full replacement renewable jet fuel, gasoline, diesel and Bioplus nanocellulose from woody biomass in an integrated biorefinery at AVAPCO's site in Thomaston, Georgia, has received a...

As part of an extremely small group of PR scientists for hire, both Michaels and Balling worked for the Western Fuels coal coalition and its fraudulent Greening Earth Society project, led at the time by Peabody coal lobbyist Fred Palmer.

Argonne engineers are currently working with scientists at the Advanced Photon Source (fuel - spray project), Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division (combustion chemistry) and are developing collaboration with researchers in the Leadership Computing Facility to optimize this combustion approach for practical engines.

Katie Randolph is a Technology Manager at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Fuel Cell Technologies Office where she manages a wide range of hydrogen production, delivery, and storage research and development projects.

The Materials Project, a Google - like database of material properties aimed at accelerating innovation, has released an enormous trove of data to the public, giving scientists working on fuel cells, photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, and a host of other advanced materials a powerful tool to explore new research avenues.

Dickinson may have been a proto - feminist, but the film is hardly a resurrection of the 19th - century poet as an icon of social justice — surely one market - friendly direction this project could have taken — but rather a hard look at the contours of her sequestered social universe, and how those sometimes limiting parameters nevertheless fueled her work.

Back in October of 2009, we heard that Josh Brolin and Brad Pitt were interested in a new project called Go Like Hell, a fast - paced, adrenaline - fueled racing drama set up at Fox.

Gigi Karmous - Edwards, the principal scientist at MCNC and a Martin parent, says the combination of videoconferencing, blogging, and other collaborative network - based tools used with classroom instruction fueled the project's success.

«Healthy Food Fuels Hungry Minds» was held at Harvard University on June 10, 2015, and organized by Let's Talk About Food, Massachusetts State Office of Nutrition, Health, and Safety, Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, and the Harvard University Dining Services Food Literacy Project.

Education students at Leeds Beckett are helping to fuel primary schools in Leeds as they join forces with the Real Junk Food Project to promote the benefits of recycling wasted food.