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/2012/01/27/policy-enforcement-briefing-manufacturing-tax-credit-natural-gas-drilling-ener1-chapter-11-tier-3-emissions/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/policy-enforcement-briefing-manufacturing-tax-credit-natural-gas-drilling-ener1-chapter-11-tier-3-emissions/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:25:25 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69028 The White House has released more details about the manufacturing efficiency incentives that President Obama announced in his State of the Union address Thursday. The proposed $5 billion in incentives aren’t new, but – if passed by Congress – are an extension to the Recovery Act’s Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit awarding a 30 percent rebate on qualified [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/policy-enforcement-briefing-manufacturing-tax-credit-natural-gas-drilling-ener1-chapter-11-tier-3-emissions/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/23/mercer-plans-steam-turbine-for-german-plant/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/23/mercer-plans-steam-turbine-for-german-plant/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:50:04 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68730 Pulp company Mercer International Inc. has announced a project to increase production and efficiency through initiatives including the installation of an additional 40 MW steam turbine at its mill in Stendal, Germany. The project, titled Project Blue Mill, is designed to increase the mill’s (pictured) annual pulp production capacity by 30,000 air-dried metric tons to [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/23/mercer-plans-steam-turbine-for-german-plant/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/19/ethanol-subsidy-expiration-may-be-hitting-consumers-wallets/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/19/ethanol-subsidy-expiration-may-be-hitting-consumers-wallets/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:03:19 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68575 The expiration of ethanol subsidies from the federal government last month may already be driving up gas prices at the pump, according to AutoblogGreen. Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported an increase of 12 cents to $3.36 a gallon to filling station prices – the first three-week increase in gas prices since October. Autoblog says that [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/19/ethanol-subsidy-expiration-may-be-hitting-consumers-wallets/feed/ 8 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/19/stop-shop-nabs-4m-in-incentives-for-lighting-and-ecms/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/19/stop-shop-nabs-4m-in-incentives-for-lighting-and-ecms/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:35:57 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68599 Stop & Shop has cut costs and received over $4 million in utility incentives through use of efficient lighting and electronically-commutated motors (ECMs) at hundreds of stores and warehouses, the company has announced. Bluestone Energy Services installed and replaced lighting fixtures with energy-efficient LEDs. At Stop & Shop stores in North Kingstown and North Providence, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/19/stop-shop-nabs-4m-in-incentives-for-lighting-and-ecms/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/18/cdp-to-intensity-environmental-accounting-work-after-1-5m-prize-win/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/18/cdp-to-intensity-environmental-accounting-work-after-1-5m-prize-win/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:56:26 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68519 The Carbon Disclosure Project will expand its work to set accounting standards for environmental disclosure, after winning the $1.5 million Zayed Future Energy Prize in Abu Dhabi yesterday. Executive chairman Paul Dickinson told BusinessGreen that winning the prize will also allow the organization to expand its water disclosure initiative and its reporting program for major [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/18/cdp-to-intensity-environmental-accounting-work-after-1-5m-prize-win/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/04/renewables-briefing-sunpower-cei-sound-solar-matinee-chp-in-cambridge-perdue-and-fibrowatt/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/04/renewables-briefing-sunpower-cei-sound-solar-matinee-chp-in-cambridge-perdue-and-fibrowatt/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:00:05 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67801 Matinee Energy Inc. has broken ground on a 120MW solar power plant planned for Benson, Ariz. WEIS GmbH Consortium from Germany supplied project partners for elements of construction, solar components and financing. Agriculture firm Perdue AgriBusiness and animal waste utility developer Fibrowatt LLC have proposed building a 10 MW biomass power facility in Salisbury, Md. [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/04/renewables-briefing-sunpower-cei-sound-solar-matinee-chp-in-cambridge-perdue-and-fibrowatt/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/28/policy-enforcement-briefing-rfs2-2012-keystone-xl-solarworld-aviation-carbon-tax/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/28/policy-enforcement-briefing-rfs2-2012-keystone-xl-solarworld-aviation-carbon-tax/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:04:39 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67558 The EPA finalized the Renewable Fuel Standard program (RFS2) 2012 percentage standards for four fuel categories as part of the annual renewable fuel volume targets intended to achieve an overall level of 36 billion gallons in 2022. The 2012 overall volumes and standards are: biomass-based diesel (1.0 billion gallons; 0.91 percent); advanced biofuels (2.0 billion [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/28/policy-enforcement-briefing-rfs2-2012-keystone-xl-solarworld-aviation-carbon-tax/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/23/geothermal-industry-plans-5745-mw-billions-in-investments/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/23/geothermal-industry-plans-5745-mw-billions-in-investments/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:20:26 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67463 The U.S. geothermal industry will start 2012 with billions in planned investments, according to Leslie Blodgett of the Geothermal Energy Association. Writing for Renewable Energy World, Blodgett says U.S. capacity reached 3,102 MW by early 2011, and up to 5,745 MW is now in development. Some planned projects are hybrids, with Enel Green Power North [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/23/geothermal-industry-plans-5745-mw-billions-in-investments/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/23/stimulus-funding-for-georgia-convenience-stores-lighting-retrofit-project/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/23/stimulus-funding-for-georgia-convenience-stores-lighting-retrofit-project/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:11:56 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67450 The Georgia Association of Convenience Stores (GACS) lighting retrofit fund has retrofitted more than 30 convenience store locations across the state. The group is one of four programs receiving financing from the Georgia Environmental Facilities Authority(GEFA) division of Energy Resources, the DOE Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy offce said. The GACS made lighting retrofits, including [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/23/stimulus-funding-for-georgia-convenience-stores-lighting-retrofit-project/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/21/fedex-to-fund-transportation-projects-in-mexico-brazil-india/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/21/fedex-to-fund-transportation-projects-in-mexico-brazil-india/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:06:53 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67308 FedEx will provide $1.4 million over two years to EMBARQ – the World Resources Institute’s sustainable transport arm – to provide technical expertise on sustainable transportation projects in cities in Mexico, Brazil and India. This grant is a continuation of FedEx’s collaboration with EMBARQ’s Center for Sustainable Transport in Mexico, which began in February 2010 [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/21/fedex-to-fund-transportation-projects-in-mexico-brazil-india/feed/ 1