The transportation sector is actively looking for ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This has created increased demand for cleaner, more innovative fuel sources, like renewable diesel.
Daily Russian Fossil Fuel Revenues Still at $500 million
Fossil fuels – petroleum, natural
gas and coal – accounted for
79% of the 97 quadrillion British
thermal units (quads) of primary
energy consumption in the
United States during 2021.
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In February, Russia was still making around 40% more money off its exports of oil, gas and coal in May 2022 than it did one year earlier
Share of adults who say it is important to them that their country shifts away from fossil fuels
The European Union announced this month that it will begin to label some nuclear power and natural gas plants, under certain conditions, as sustainable investments or “transitional green energy sources.”
After declining in 2020, the combined production of U.S. fossil fuels increased by 2% in 2021
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In 2020, total consumption of
fossil fuels in the United States, including petroleum, natural gas, and coal, fell to 72.9 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu),
down 9% from 2019 and the
lowest level since 1991.
Relying on fossil fuels to move people and goods creates a massive carbon footprint that the transportation industry is only starting to address.
Capturing wastewater, farm and food waste to make biogas can prevent planet-warming methane emissions from going airborne.
Is hydrogen or renewable natural gas the better path to powering emission-free battery-electric trucking? Hyliion is all-in on its RNG-fueled generator to make electricity. Nikola’s hydrogen-backing founder predicts its rival will fail if it sticks to fossil fuel.
The burning of natural gas instead of coal offers important and immediate benefits, including reduced air and water pollution, fewer smokestack carbon emissions, less power plant water use, greater flexibility of the power grid, and renewed economic development in gas-rich regions of the country.
The shift away from fossil fuels has attracted mayors in the state of Hawaii to commit to renewable transportation sources, according to an article written by Honolulu mayor Kirk Cameron with Dawn Lippert.
