Government
USPS Saves $400m on Energy Since FY2007
The U.S. Postal Service has accumulated over $400 million in avoided energy costs since fiscal year 2007, the service has announced.
USPS made the announcement ...
Fewer than 25% of Local Governments Use Alternative Energy, Says Report
Fewer than a quarter of US local governments employ any form of alternative energy generation, according to survey results.
Just 23.4 percent of the more than 2,100 ...
IBM, Accenture Lead Responsible Government Suppliers
IBM, Accenture, HP, Merck, Dell, Boeing and McKesson have all held their positions among the most responsible government contractors, according to rankings ...
Ameresco Energy Contract to Save County $50k a Year
Renewable energy company Ameresco Inc. has signed an agreement with Las Animas County, Colo., to begin the implementation of a budget-neutral energy savings performance contract that should ...
FERC Chairman Wellinghoff Discusses Urban Smart Grid
Jon Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, gives keynote at Urban Smart Grid and Energy Innovation ...
United Technologies Discusses Energy Efficient Building Systems
Clas Jacobson, Building Control Systems Specialist at United Technologies, discusses the conditions in Europe that are promoting the development and adoption ...
EPA to Limit Drifting Smog
The Environmental Protection Agency today finalized widely anticipated Clean Air Act regulations on pollution that crosses state lines.
In an announcement shortly before noon ...
Renewables Briefing: SunPower, Deepwater Wind, Paint-On Solar Panels
SunPower Corp. has begun construction on a massive, 1.1 million square-foot project on the roof of the Gloucester Marine Terminal's refrigerated warehouse in ...
San Francisco Grabs Title of ‘Greenest’ City
San Francisco grabbed the mantle of 'greenest' major city in the US and Canada Green City Index, with New York, ...
Lend Lease, Best Buy, Major League Teams Sign Up to Better Buildings Commitments
Best Buy, Lend Lease and a coalition of 25 major sports teams are among 14 initial partners that have signed up to the ...
Eaton Replaces Data Centers; Fed IT Doesn’t Know Its PUE
Eaton Corporation has opened two new data centers projected to deliver $23 million in energy savings.
The data centers in Louisville, Ky., and ...
Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Oil Reserve, Efficiency, EPA Bills
Obama administration officials announced yesterday that they will tap into the country’s strategic oil reserve to replace losses from the conflict in Libya and ...
Utilities, EPA Both Winners in Supreme Court GHG Ruling
The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously against the states in AEP v. Connecticut, ruling that they can’t invoke federal law to force utilities ...
U.S. Capitol Power Supplier Saves $9.5m on Natural Gas
The facility powering the U.S. Capitol and other key buildings has saved more than $9.5 million on a new 17-month natural gas ...
Environmental Enforcement: Hecla Settles for $263m in Huge Superfund Case
The Hecla Mining Company will pay $263.4 million plus interest to the United States, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe and the state of ...
White House Pledges Smart Grid Data Access, $250m in Loans
The Obama administration yesterday announced $250 million in loans for smart-grid deployment and launched new initiatives to ensure customers' access to their energy ...
Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Obama's Cree Visit, Renewable Funding Cuts
President Obama is scheduled to meet today with his Jobs and Competitiveness Council, composed mostly of business executives, at the Durham, N.C., headquarters of ...
EPA Publishes Classified Industry Chemical Info
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made public the identities of more than 150 chemicals contained in 104 health and safety studies that had ...
Sears, USPS Efficient Lighting to Save Millions of KWh
Sears says its Canadian stores are making one of the world’s largest replacements of inefficient lighting, the Toronto Sun reports.
More than 130,000 inefficient ...
EU Holds Ground on Airline CO2 Cap; Trade War Coming?
The European Commission will move forward on its plan to include aviation in its emissions trading scheme, WSJ reports.
According to the plan, EU airlines will have specific CO2 allocations and will pay a ...
