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Archive for January, 2009

Senate Picks Up House-Passed Stimulus Plan, Adds Clean Coal

Earlier this week the House passed a version of President Obama’s $825 bn stimulus plan, which would devote over $68 billion to green technology development. The plan passed ...

DuPont Cuts Ribbon on Hawaii Solar Panel Project

DuPont has completed its largest solar panel array at a research center in Kauai, Hawaii. The solar array is expected to generate more than 700,000 kilowatt hours annually, or about 85 ...

NY Gov’t Agency Responds to Claim that RGGI Is ‘Not Legit’

One of the defendants in a lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) has said the charges are not valid, reports The New York Times. The suit was ...

Nicholas Stern Discusses Environment And The Economy

LSE Professor Nicholas Stern discusses his thoughts on the environment and the economy.

Current Tech Could Cut Emissions 35% Below 1990 Levels

Currently available technologies could reduce global GHG emissions 35 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, according to a report released by McKinsey and Company. The total cost of implementing all of the measures contained ...

A Cool Way to Address a Data Center Energy Dilemma

According to a report by management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and the Uptime Institute, the average data center consumes the same amount of energy as 25,000 households. Data centers in general may surpass the ...

Trucking Industry Asks Congress For 65 MPH Speed Limit

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) is seeking support for the industry's environmental initiatives from Congress. The initiatives are expected to cut fuel consumption by 86 billion gallons and reduce all vehicles' ...

Denver Reduces Vehicle Idling by 35%

In March 2008, Denver launched a pilot test of Driving Change, an Internet-based vehicular greenhouse gas tracking system. The program found that from May through November 2008, the city and county of ...

Utilities Sign On For Carbon Capture Study

Five electric utilities in the U.S. and Canada have joined the Electric Power Research Institute to host studies of the impacts of retrofitting carbon capture technology to existing coal-fired power plants. The ...

HO Lighting Retrofit Will Save $18K Per Year

HO Manufacturing has completed redesigning and upgrading its lighting systems. The retrofit project is expected to save the company nearly 201,000 kilowatt-hours per year and eliminate about 362,000 pounds of CO2 ...

Organic Food Sales Slow

Recession has driven consumers to cut costs, slowing sales of organic food in the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany, Reuters reports. In the U.S., typical growth rates of 20 percent to 30 percent for organic ...

UI Cuts Emissions, Saves $1M Per Year Burning Oat Hulls

In 2008, University of Iowa avoided emitting 69, 000 metric tons of CO2 by using one system to generate both heat and energy for the campus. A member of the EPA's Combined ...

Intel, Pepsi Top EPA’s 2008 Green Power List

Intel and PepsiCo topped the EPA's annual list of Green Power purchasers for the second year in a row, with Intel buying 1.3 million megawatt-hours - the largest renewable energy purchase in history. While ...

Wal-Mart Pushes Green Outside U.S. Borders

Wal-Mart announced this week goals to reduce phosphates in products in the Americas region by 70 percent by 2011. The move is part of a larger environmental plan for the ...

MBDC Offers ‘Cradle To Cradle’ Ingredient Certification

McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) has launched Cradle to Cradle Approved Ingredient certification, which assesses the sustainability of product ingredients for human and environmental health, as well as their capacity for being recycled or ...