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Mass. to Retrofit 8400 Diesel Buses by 2010

Massachusetts will spend (PDF) $22.5 million to retrofit 8400 public school and regional transit buses by 2010. The deal is designed to offset pollution from the Big Dig, The Boston Globe reports. Some 7,800 diesel-powered school buses and 600 regional transit buses will be retrofitted with filters that are expected ... Read more »

‘Smart Cooling’ System from HP Unveiled

Hewlett-Packard has announced a new energy management system, dubbed HP Dynamic Smart Cooling, that’s designed to deliver 20 to 45 percent savings in cooling energy costs. According to HP, the system uses advanced software residing in an intelligent control node to continuously adjust air conditioning settings based on real-time air-temperature measurements from ... Read more »

Wal-Mart Says Switch to LEDs Could Net 66% Energy Savings

Wal-Mart is outfitting low- and medium-temperature refrigerated display cases in over 500 U.S. stores with GE LEDs from GELcore, a GE Consumer & Industrial business. In stores where the LEDs will be put to work, Wal-Mart expects to net up to 66 percent energy savings, compared with fluorescents. Wal-Mart will ... Read more »

New Commercial Bank Targets Green Businesses

A new commercial bank in San Francisco is focusing on green business sectors. New Resource Bank has attracted an investor group which raised $24.7 million. Founding investors include Bay Area and national leaders in business and in corporate environmental sustainability, such as Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development, Lee McIntire, ... Read more »

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 »

energyStudy Looks at Rate Impact of a Renewable Electricity Standard

The Indiana Coalition for Renewable Energy and Economic Development (ICREED), a coalition of businesses, elected officials, and clean energy groups, recently released (via RenewableEnergyAccess) a rate impact study that describes estimated rate impacts of a Renewable Electricity Standard on Hoosier electric utility ratepayers. That study, authored by Pete Boerger, a ... Read more »

Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Agrees 25% Water Cut with EPA

The Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport has agreed to reduce energy use by ten percent and water use by 25 percent under the EPA’s Sustainability Partnership program. DFW has agreed to make the improvements during its $1.9 billion, seven-year renovation, the Terminal Renewal and Improvement Program (TRIP), the EPA said. ... Read more »

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