FEATURES AND NEWS
The deal will allow Johnson Controls to expand its automotive batteries production without carbon emissions and excess waste.
Regulators in Washington State have cited J & I Construction for 13 safety violations, allegedly for exposing workers to falls and other hazards that are considered and willful and serious.
The world of refrigerants is changing in ways that will impact energy managers and the jobs that they do. The most immediate change is a Department of Energy (DoE) requirement that energy consumption on new stand-alone commercial refrigeration equipment must be reduced by 30 percent to 50 percent on units ... Read more »
Energy managers in many types of buildings – hotels, prisons, colleges and universities, military installations and others – are charged with washing and drying laundry. It is a big energy drain, and cutting use even a bit positively impacts the bottom line. Today, American Laundry News posted a story about ... Read more »
The Climate Leadership Council comprised of a older and established Republicans have released a plan to tax carbon at $40 per ton.
Partner Content
The U.S. Green Building Council-Los Angeles Chapter is launching a first round of “green professionals” (GPRO) courses that target on-the-ground building professionals who seek to integrate sustainable practices into their core knowledge , according to a February 7 report by Construction & Demolition Recycling.
Consolidated Edison (ConEd), the largest utility in the New York metropolitan area, announced on February 8 that it has created a new holding company, Con Edison Clean Energy Businesses, that brings together its three existing corporations active in America’s competitive energy marketplace: Con Edison Solutions, Con Edison Development and Con Edison Energy.
Volkswagen has launched a US subsidiary to manage the $2 billion the automaker agreed to spend in support of zero-emissions vehicles following its emissions cheating scandal.
Lenovo has developed a PC manufacturing process that it says reduces carbon emissions while increasing reliability. In 2018, the PC maker will offer the new procedure for use on an industry-wide basis free of charge.
Advances in biofuel infrastructure and ground-based operations can help the aviation industry comply with strict emissions limits and save money on fuel, according to two new studies.
Partner Content
Cox Enterprises is using a new waste management technology for the first time in the US to repurpose tires; Meridian Waste has launched a new subsidiary that will invest in advanced byproduct recovery technologies.
The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) has released a five-year timeline for reshaping the state’s grid. “The Distributed Energy Resources Roadmap,” according to The Times Union, is part of the state’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) program. Grids today are one-way affairs in which a massive power source sends power ... Read more »
The US Environmental Protection Agency has given Wisconsin businesses less expensive options to remove phosphorous from waste water that was dumped into lakes and streams.
District heating is a hot item in the United Kingdom. Earlier this month, the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) said that it will create the UK’s first test standard for heat interface units (HIUs). HIUs are the devices that divert heat from the network into structures. This is an obviously critical ... Read more »
United Parcel Service this week announced that it will deploy solar energy assets worth $18 million to at least eight of its facilities by the end of the year. The new investments will produce almost 10 MW of power, which represents an almost five-fold increase over current generation. The locations ... Read more »
The growth of the electronic marketplace will affect how future packaging is designed designed and constructed -- all with sustainability in mind.
A fee on single-use plastic and paper bags has been scrapped by New York state lawmakers, who voted to halt the New York city 5-cent bag tax indefinitely.
Former President Jimmy Carter – who famously started his career as a peanut farmer – has leased a ten-acre site in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, to SolAmerica Energy for development of a 1.3-MW solar project, which will provide over 50 percent of the power needs of the city. A ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by company and city officials, as well
The Trump Organization will likely pay millions of dollars to clean up a polluted site once overseen by the president's son, Donald Jr.
AMD AMD 25 x 20 ENERGY EFFICIENCY INITIATIVE “AMD did an excellent job improving the energy efficiency of its products with its 6th and 7th generation APUs. The reduction in energy usage is truly impressive.” –Energy Manager Today Awards judge In 2014, AMD announced an ambitious initiative to improve the ... Read more »
Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders.
Under a pilot program called MIGreenPower, scheduled to start in April, Detroit utility customers will be able to invest in the clean energy they use by voluntarily funding DTE-owned wind and solar farms.
National Grid’s business customers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island can earn up to $3,500 and become more energy efficient by participating in a two-year demand response pilot program, the utility announced on February 6. The program offers financial incentives to qualified participating businesses for reducing electricity consumption during times when ... Read more »
A new bill (HR 306) introduced by U.S. Representative Anna Eshoo (D-CA-District 18) and passed unanimously by voice vote in the U.S. House of Representatives in January proposes a set of energy efficiency standards directed at federal data centers designed to save as much as $5 billion in energy costs by 2020.
More surface water means less global warming. That's the conclusion drawn by scientists at the University of Sheffield, which found that the water table -- the level below which the ground water is saturated with water -- will also improve the growth of crops and slow the loss of peat soils.