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Daikin McQuay Commercial AC First to Meet DOE Efficiency Challenge
Daikin McQuay is the first manufacturer to meet the US Energy Department's rooftop unit challenge, an initiative announced in January 2011 that ...
Fleet Roundup: SAE vs. CHAdeMO, Tesla, Waste Industries, Volvo
The battle over DC fast-charge standards heated up at a recent California State Senate public committee meeting. A GM representative asked the state ...
NASCAR and EPA Partner on Environmental Initiatives
NASCAR and the EPA have signed a memorandum of understanding intended to raise racing fans' awareness of environmentally friendly products and initiatives.
Under the agreement, NASCAR ...
Top Environmental Services Firms Named
AECOM, AMEC, Arcadis, CH2M Hill, ERM, SAIC and URS lead the US market for environmental services, according to a report from Verdantix.
Green Quadrant ...
IBM to Monitor 50 Federal Buildings, Save Taxpayers $15m – With More to Come
IBM has won a contract to develop and install smart building technology in 50 of the federal government's most energy-consuming buildings, and the resulting data ...
Walmart Announces 27 Solar Projects Totalling 10.5 MW
Walmart has announced plans to install solar photovoltaic arrays on 27 of its Massachusetts stores as early as August, adding on-site generation to more than ...
Legrand Cuts Energy Use by 20 Percent, Beating DOE Goal by 8 Years
Legrand has reduced its energy use by more than 20 percent, in its first year participating in the Department of Energy's Building Buildings initiative.
The electrical ...
Energy Efficiency Gaining Ground in Inefficient States, ACEEE Says
Energy efficiency is gaining momentum in states that have traditionally been behind the curve in pushing such technology, according to research by the American Council ...
International Paper Expects to Meet 12 Sustainability Goals by 2020
International Paper has outlined 12 voluntary sustainability goals that it expects to meet by the end of the decade, including a 15 ...
NREL Model Improves Predictions of Shade Effects on Solar PV
Using microinverters instead of typical string inverters can improve solar panels' performance in shade by more than 12 percent, according to a new National Renewable ...
Pepco Saves Delaware College $9 Million in Energy Costs
Pepco Energy Services will save Delaware Technical Community College more than $9 million in energy costs by installing more than $7 million in energy ...
EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards ‘Costly’ and ‘Time-Consuming’ for Coal Plants
Compliance with the EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) poses "significant challenges" for coal plants, forcing many to retire rather than make the ...
Electronics Giants Threaten to Abandon Energy Star
Major electronics manufacturers may drop out of Energy Star because of the EPA's third-party testing requirements, according to a report by Bloomberg Businessweek.
The ...
HonestBuildings.com Releases Info on 250,000 NYC Buildings
HonestBuildings.com has released information for more than 250,000 commercial and mixed-use buildings in New York City, representing more than 4 billion square feet.
The free ...
AASHE Sustainability Review: Green-Job Training ‘Skyrocketed’ in 2011
Nearly 60 percent of all new higher-education programs or training opportunities in 2011 focused on renewable energy and green careers, with $543 million recorded toward the ...
Five Denihan Hotels Install EcoSmart EMS
The Benjamin (pictured) and five other Manhattan boutique hotels can expect upwards of 30 percent energy savings by using Telkonet’s EcoSmart energy management platform, ...
Chrysler Dealerships Install Solar Panels, Recycle Motor Oil and Rainwater
Tim Parker Chrysler, located in the Hot Springs National Park in central Arkansas, installed a 2,000-square-foot solar panel system on the ...
Iron Mountain Looks to Solar PV; Johns Hopkins Brings 818kW Online
Information management company Iron Mountain says it will install solar PV systems on the roofs of eight document storage facilities in Massachusetts, Connecticut and ...
Net Zero Transit Center Uses Geothermal, Solar, Biomass
A newly opened Boston transit hub promises to achieve net-zero energy through geothermal, solar and wood biomass power.
Engineering firm Arup built the $15.4 million John ...
Kraft Cuts Packaging with Lifecycle Analysis
Kraft Foods cut the amount of plastic packaging in its YES Pack salad dressing by 60 percent using a lifecycle analysis system, the ...
