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Wal-Mart Evaluates Environmental Efforts

Wal-Mart has reviewed early results of various environmental projects at its experimental stores located in McKinney, Texas, and Aurora, Colorado after one year of operation and is applying some projects to other Wal-Mart stores and Sam’s Clubs. “When we conceptualized these two experimental stores, we thought about our environmental opportunities ... Read more »

BAE Wins Award to Build Fuel Cell for Hybrid Transit Bus

The FTA has selected BAE Systems to develop advanced hydrogen fuel-cell technology on a hybrid electric transit bus. The $5.35 million FTA award is part of the agency’s National Fuel Cell Bus Technology Development Program. WestStart CALSTART, a non-profit organization, will distribute the award.     BAE Systems will lead the ... Read more »

Green Star to Build 90 Biodiesel Reactors for De Beers

Green Star Products has signed an agreement with De Beers Fuel Limited of South Africa to build 90 biodiesel reactors. Each of the biodiesel reactors will be capable of producing 10 million gallons of biodiesel each year for a total production capacity of 900,000,000 gallons per year when operating at ... Read more »

Wolverine Largest Participant in Michigan’s Renewable Energy Program

Wolverine World Wide and Consumers Energy, Michigan’s second-largest provider of natural gas and electricity, announced that Wolverine will become the largest participant in Consumers Energy’s Green Generation program. Wolverine’s involvement in the program will make the Company one of the largest users of renewable energy in the state of Michigan. ... Read more »

Whole Foods Sells Wind Energy Credits

Whole Foods Market has signed up with Renewable Choice Energy to sell a Wind Power Card, available at approximately 80 Whole Foods Market locations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. Produced by Renewable Choice Energy, Wind Power Cards let consumers buy certified wind energy credits equivalent to ... Read more »

Special Inspection Planned for Largest Nuclear Plant in U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials will begin a special inspection of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station’s core safety injection valves next week. NRC officials have scheduled a Nov. 20 meeting with the executives of the triple-reactor plant west of Phoenix to discuss ongoing repair issues, the Houston Chronicle reports. The ... Read more »

Impact of Renewable Energy on the Electric Power Grid

With a $1.23 million grant, researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be creating a distributed power test bed to study how the electricity distribution grid might be affected by the widespread adoption of clean, renewable energy sources. The two-year project, which is funded by the New York State Office of Science, Technology ... Read more »

California’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Identified & Measured

The California Energy Commission has released a  report that provides estimates of the state’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared over a 15-year period. The report, Inventory of California Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990 to 2004, provides policy makers and researchers with the sources of emissions that could alter the climate ... Read more »

Peterbilt Hybrid Reduces Fuel Use Up To 40%

Peterbilt is planning a hybrid-electric medium duty truck – outfitted with a fully integrated bucket lift body -? for 2007 that it says will result in a 30 to 40 percent reduction in fuel use. The Class 7 Model 335 is meant for municipal and utility applications and features improved fuel economy ... Read more »

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