Salem Power Plant to be Sued $1M Over Alleged Emissions Violations
Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) plans to file a lawsuit (PDF) against power utility Dominion Energy New England over alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at the coal- and oil-fired Salem Harbor...
View ArticleSurvey: 56% of CDP Members May Cut Out Suppliers Who Don’t Manage Carbon
More than half (56 percent) of Carbon Disclosure Project members surveyed said that in the future they would cease doing business with suppliers that do not manage their carbon, according to the...
View ArticleWhite House Budget Suggests Abandonment of Cap and Trade
The fact that the White House is not including projected revenues from cap and trade suggests that the Obama Administration is acquiescing to the notion that Congress may not pass such legislation,...
View ArticleHolcim Claims First Solar Install at U.S. Cement Plant
Holcim’s Portland cement plant in Colorado claims to be the first in the United States to use solar power, reports Pueblo Chieftain. The installation of 528 solar panels is projected to produce about...
View ArticleWhy Systems Thinking, Rather Than New Technologies, Will Jump-Start the...
Whether they focus on wind power, solar power, clean coal, geothermal, biofuels, or something even more exotic, most efforts to wean the world economy from its dependence on oil view the challenge in...
View ArticleBill Gates Sinks $4.5M into ‘Transparent’ Climate Change Research
Bill Gates is investing at least $4.5 million of his own money into geoengineering research, aimed at combating global climate change, with an emphasis on transparency, reports Wired. At the same time,...
View ArticleNorthrop Grumman Tackles Sustainability in Mississippi Facilities
Northrop Grumman is saving 95,000 kilowatt hours of electricity a year after a lighting retrofit, part of the firm’s participation in the enHance program from the Mississippi Department of...
View ArticleNike, Best Buy, Yahoo to Share Sustainable Patents Via GreenXchange
Created to speed up the development of “green” innovation, ten leading organizations have launched the GreenXchange (GX), a Web-based marketplace where companies can collaborate and share intellectual...
View ArticleTour of IBM’s ‘Smarter Planet’ Exhibit at Epcot
Here’s a tour of IBM’s new Smarter Planet experiential exhibit at Epcot in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The exhibit is powered by a “smarter data center,” which IBM says provides a real-life...
View ArticleRoundup – Supergrid, Hara & Intuit, Bayer, Honeywell, Feds, Packaging, E-Waste
Businesses that leave lights on at night to be fined Mirror Tax software leader Intuit taps Hara for environmental software, Minnesota picks EarthSoft ZDNet Getting connected: Europe’s green energy...
View ArticleOregon Warehouse Adds $820K Solar System
An industrial warehouse in Salem, Ore., is generating its own electricity after adding 650 solar photovoltaic modules to its roof, reports the Statesman Journal. Now, the warehouse has the largest...
View ArticleMitsubishi, Weyerhauser Explore Biomass Partnership
Mitsubishi and Weyerhaeuser may be getting into the biomass business together – a business that some think can keep old coal-fired plants burning longer and cleaner. Mitsubishi and Weyerhaeuser have...
View ArticleFrom Qatar to Belgium, Convention Centers and Solar a Worldwide Trend
The addition of solar to convention centers – from Belgium to Qatar to the Twin Cities – is a burgeoning business. The Flanders Expo in Ghent, Belgium, just received a 1.87 megawatt solar installation,...
View ArticleClorox Comes Clean With Chemical Content on Web Site
In a bid to improve transparency about the environmental impact about its products, Clorox has launched a new Web site that details ingredients for more than 230 cleaning, disinfecting and auto care...
View ArticleTo Support Growing CNG Fleet, Yellow Cab Chicago Building 2 Fueling Stations
Yellow Cab Chicago will add 100 new compressed natural gas (CNG) taxis, and is building an infrastructure to support them, reports the Chicago Tribune. In the future, the cab company expects to add...
View ArticleWeisenbach to Increase Energy Efficiency, Reduce Emissions
Weisenbach Recycled Products, a manufacturer of recycled and environmentally preferable products, set environmental goals that include salvaging items that it does not yet reuse, recycle or donate;...
View ArticleDOE Budget Targets Clean Energy, Energy Efficiency Advances
President Barack Obama’s $28.4 billion fiscal year 2011 budget request for the Department of Energy (DOE) targets the Administration’s commitment to create jobs with the development of a clean energy...
View ArticleYale Building Uses 81% Less Water, 58% Less Energy
A new building at Yale is a working laboratory for the students that frequent it. Kroon Hall, home of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, uses 81 percent less water and 58 percent...
View ArticleHorizon at Playa Vista to Power 70% of Building’s Core and Shell with...
Horizon at Playa Vista, a new 466,000-square foot urban office development in the Los Angeles area, plans to use renewable energy sources to power 70 percent of the building’s core and shell...
View ArticleGE Dedicates $45M Renewable Energy Global HQ in NY
GE has dedicated a $45 million Renewable Energy Global Headquarters in Schenectady, N.Y., which also has created more than 650 new jobs. The event also marked the installation of GE’s 13,500th wind...
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