http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:49:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/uss-largest-ground-source-heat-pump-set-for-ball-state/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/uss-largest-ground-source-heat-pump-set-for-ball-state/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:29:41 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69798 Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., is on the cusp of turning on what it says will be the largest ground source heat pump in the U.S., if not the world. The pump will cut the University’s carbon footprint roughly in half, the school says. It will also eradicate almost all of its $3 million [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/uss-largest-ground-source-heat-pump-set-for-ball-state/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/hydrogen-plant-to-save-air-products-exxonmobil-facilities-15-energy/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/hydrogen-plant-to-save-air-products-exxonmobil-facilities-15-energy/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:51:50 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69794 Air Products has cut the ribbon on a hydrogen manufacturing facility that uses excess gas from a neighboring ExxonMobil refinery when making its product. Hydrogen manufactured at Air Products’ Rotterdam, Netherlands, facility (pictured) is then used by the refinery for the desulphurization of oil products and in the manufacture of petrochemicals. Processes applied at the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/hydrogen-plant-to-save-air-products-exxonmobil-facilities-15-energy/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/renewables-briefing-world%e2%80%99s-biggest-offshore-wind-farm-1-3-mw-solar-installation-at-navys-spawar/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/renewables-briefing-world%e2%80%99s-biggest-offshore-wind-farm-1-3-mw-solar-installation-at-navys-spawar/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:22:47 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69782 The $1.5 billion, 367 MW Walney Farm, the world’s biggest offshore wind project, opened in the Irish Sea nine miles off the shore of the U.K. Denmark-based Dong Energy installed 51 3.6-megawatt turbines and linked them to the grid last year, and completed the second stage installation of 51 more turbines in the past six [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/renewables-briefing-world%e2%80%99s-biggest-offshore-wind-farm-1-3-mw-solar-installation-at-navys-spawar/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/policy-enforcement-briefing-csapr-signed-adjusted-new-nukes-keystone-xl-fracking-tax/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/policy-enforcement-briefing-csapr-signed-adjusted-new-nukes-keystone-xl-fracking-tax/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:12:34 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69755 The EPA has made a few adjustments to its cross-state air pollution rules (CSAPR) that were signed Tuesday. The adjustments increase budgets in 17 states and ease limits on market-based compliance options. These state-level adjustments vary, and the total budget increases by about 2 percent, Clean Air Watch said. CSAPR is still under a stay, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/policy-enforcement-briefing-csapr-signed-adjusted-new-nukes-keystone-xl-fracking-tax/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/equis-environmental-data-gets-groundswell-visual-boost/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/equis-environmental-data-gets-groundswell-visual-boost/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:10:11 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69767 EarthSoft’s EQuIS (Environmental Quality Information System) environmental workflow data management platform will integrate with Groundswell Technologies’ Waiora web-based monitoring and visualization platform, the companies said. This development gives EQuIS users the ability to generate advanced environmental and water resource management graphics. Capabilities include real-time contours and groundwater storage changes in 2D/3D/4D, playback loops, and multivariate [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/equis-environmental-data-gets-groundswell-visual-boost/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/google-jumps-to-1st-place-in-cool-it-climate-rankings/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/google-jumps-to-1st-place-in-cool-it-climate-rankings/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:17:17 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69636 Google has secured the top spot in Greenpeace’s Cool IT Leaderboard, with 53 points, up from 47 points and fourth place in the rankings’ last edition. The search giant is followed by Cisco – down from 1st place – and a tie between Ericsson and Fujitsu. Oracle continues to bring up the rear, as it [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/google-jumps-to-1st-place-in-cool-it-climate-rankings/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/stapleselectric-delivery-trucks-cost-9-12-less-to-operate-mit-finds-with-staples-data/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/stapleselectric-delivery-trucks-cost-9-12-less-to-operate-mit-finds-with-staples-data/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:37:00 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69659 Electric delivery trucks can cost between nine and 12 percent less to operate than their diesel cousins, according to an MIT study using data from Staples. The paper by the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, to be published in the proceedings of last month’s IEEE Power and Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/stapleselectric-delivery-trucks-cost-9-12-less-to-operate-mit-finds-with-staples-data/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/policy-enforcement-briefing-bank-of-england-considers-carbon-bubble-diesel-health-study-delayed/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/policy-enforcement-briefing-bank-of-england-considers-carbon-bubble-diesel-health-study-delayed/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:51:38 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69619 The governor of the Bank of England has acknowledged that there is a need for evaluation of the financial system’s exposure to high carbon and environmentally unsustainable investments, and the bank is willing to consider the levels of fossil fuel exposure as a potential risk to financial stability, The Guardian reports. The discussion stems from [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/policy-enforcement-briefing-bank-of-england-considers-carbon-bubble-diesel-health-study-delayed/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/upm-to-build-major-biodiesel-refinery/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/upm-to-build-major-biodiesel-refinery/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:27:55 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69551 Finnish paper company UPM is to build the world’s first industrial-scale plant to turn a wood byproduct into biodiesel. The Lappeenranta, Finland, biorefinery will produce annually approximately 100,000 tonnes of advanced second generation biodiesel for use in vehicles, UPM says. Construction of the biorefinery will begin in the summer of 2012 and be completed in [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/upm-to-build-major-biodiesel-refinery/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/solvay-unveils-1mw-nedstack-fuel-cell/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/solvay-unveils-1mw-nedstack-fuel-cell/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:25:37 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69556 Chemicals company Solvay has unveiled its 1MW fuel cell built by Nedstack. The emission-free system was installed at the Solvay’s Lillo, Belgium, facility in September 2011. After a few weeks of testing, it has now been running continuously for 2 months, Nedstack says. It is currently running at 50 percent electrical efficiency, with a total [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/solvay-unveils-1mw-nedstack-fuel-cell/feed/ 0