Leon Walker, Author at Environment + Energy Leader

Lighting Roundup: LightFair 2011, Cree Products, Win for Finelite | Asia Developments | Carmanah Fed Project

April 29, 2011 by Leon Walker

The Curve LED desk lamp by Finelite won the platinum prize in the task lighting category from the Architectural SSL Magazine’s Product Innovation Awards (PIA ’11). Curve has earned the EPA Energy Star label for solid state luminaires, with luminaire efficacy at about 50 lumens per watt. Its features include ... Read more »

Solar Briefing: IKEA, LRE, City of Austin | Solar Forum Recommendations

April 29, 2011 by Leon Walker

IKEA’s solar energy system on its Brooklyn store is commissioned, operational and certified by Con Edison and New York City. The 200 kW array occupies 19,000-square feet, with four different module types totaling 1,104 panels. The 346,000-square-foot IKEA Brooklyn will generate 240,000 kWh of renewable electricity annually for the store, ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: ARCO to Pay Almost $1m for Nevada Mine Cleanup

April 28, 2011 by Leon Walker

Oil company the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) is to pay almost $1 million to reimburse the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for cleanup costs incurred at one of its former sites. The settlement, worth $904,085, pays for remediation actions at the Anaconda Cooper Mine Superfund Site near Yerington, Nev. The funds ... Read more »

EPA Requests Chesapeake’s Fracking Blowout Info

April 27, 2011April 23, 2013 by Leon Walker

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has requested information from Chesapeake Energy Corporation on any hazardous chemicals released in a blowout at a Pennsylvania natural gas well last week. The discharge happened on April 19 at Chesapeake’s facility in Leroy Township, Penn., while the company was extracting underground gas deposits using ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: Dubuque to Pay $3.5m in Clean Water Settlement

April 27, 2011April 27, 2011 by Leon Walker

The City of Dubuque, Iowa, has agreed to pay a $205,000 civil penalty and spend an additional $3 million on improvements to its water pollution control plant and sewer collection system over the next three years, to settle a series of alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act. Dubuque ... Read more »

EPA Demands Full Ingredients on Designed for the Environment Products

April 26, 2011April 26, 2011 by Leon Walker

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will require all products using its Designed for the Environment labeling program to disclose their full ingredients to consumers. The new requirement is being phased in to cover all 2,500 products that currently carry the DfE label. Products involved in the scheme will have to ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: Monsanto Subsidiary Settles Alleged Water Violations for $1.4m

April 21, 2011 by Leon Walker

P4 Production LLC, a mining company wholly owned by agriculture biotechnology corporation Monsanto, has agreed to pay a $1.4 million civil penalty to settle alleged Clean Water Act violations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice have announced. The company, which operates a mining and phosphate processing ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: Terra Industries Settles Air Pollution Allegations for $17m

April 21, 2011July 3, 2017 by Leon Walker

Terra Industries, one of the nation’s largest producers of nitric acid and nitrogen fertilizers, has agreed to spend over $17.5 million to settle alleged violations of the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. An estimated $17 million of the ... Read more »

Dell Closing in on Recycling Goal

April 19, 2011 by Leon Walker

Electronics manufacturer Dell is two-thirds of the way toward its goal of recycling 1 billion pounds of e-waste by 2014, the company has announced. The Texas-based computer giant says it diverted 150 million pounds of used electronics from landfills worldwide in the 2011 financial year. That is an increase of ... Read more »

EPA Proposes Stormwater Permit for Construction Sites

April 19, 2011 by Leon Walker

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a draft permit for public comment aimed at regulating the discharge of stormwater from construction sites. Stormwater discharges during construction activities can contain sediment and pollutants that harm aquatic ecosystems, increase drinking water treatment costs and pollute waters that people use for ... Read more »

Dairy Industry Wins Oil Spill Exemption

April 15, 2011April 15, 2011 by Leon Walker

Spills that occur during the production of milk will no longer be subject to the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure rule, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced. Specifically, the EPA has amended the rule to exempt spills of milk from milk product containers, associated piping and equipment. Prior to ... Read more »

Companies Announce Earth Day Promotions

April 15, 2011 by Leon Walker

Earth day promotions are flooding our inbox. Here are some that caught our attention. Electronics manufacturer LG is backing the “Great American Cleanup”. Last year the country recycled 7.2 million pounds of consumer electronics during the campaign, LG is hoping to top that figure this year. Healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente ... Read more »

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