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Permit Battle Looms for Waste-Spreading on Farm Fields

February 22, 2013February 22, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

Environmental Land Management, an Austin, Minn.,-based company, wants to spread up to 19,000 tons a year of byproduct from a John Morrell hog processing plant onto farm fields in South Dakota. The firm has applied for a conditional use permit to put the dried, treated wastewater byproduct, which currently goes ... Read more »

AZ Snowbowl Fails on Environmental Scorecard

February 18, 2013February 18, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Utah’s Park City Mountain Resort tops this year’s Ski Area Environmental Scorecard, receiving 93 percent of possible points and getting an A grade, while Arizona Snowbowl’s comes in last place, scoring 42.2 percent and earning a D. The 11th annual report card, compiled by the Sierra Nevada Alliance on behalf ... Read more »

Stadiums and Arenas Use Efficient, High Wattage Lamps

February 14, 2013August 2, 2019 by Jennifer Hermes

Most sports stadiums and indoor arenas use high intensity discharge (HID) lamps for almost all of their overhead lighting needs. On average, stadium lights have much higher wattage than other outdoor lighting applications such as billboards, roadways, and parking lots. While HID lamps are very efficient, they require significant time ... Read more »

Superdome Managers Worried About Outage Before Game

February 11, 2013February 11, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Public records released by the Louisiana Stadium & Exposition District (LSED), which oversees the Superdome, says tests on the dome’s electrical feeders last fall indicated there was a chance of failure, according to ESPN. An October 2012 memo said that Entergy, the electricity supplier for the arena, and the Superdome’s engineering ... Read more »

HIDS Lengthened Outage at Super Bowl

February 7, 2013August 2, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

The high intensity discharge (HID) lights in the Superdome contributed to the length of the play delay at the Super Bowl, according to the US Energy Information Administration. High levels of light output require more energy, and since HID lights provide 75 lumens of light per watt, they make an ... Read more »

‘Greenest’ Super Bowl Offsets 3.8m Pounds CO2

February 6, 2013February 6, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

As part of what it calls the “greenest” Super Bowl in the game’s history, the New Orleans Host Committee says it will donate carbon credits to offset some 3.8 million pounds of CO2 emissions, among other sustainability initiatives. The Host Committee estimates that energy usage at major Super Bowl venues — ... Read more »

Contract Wins: GE, AECOM, Imco and Superfund

February 5, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

GE announced its zero-liquid discharge wastewater treatment technology will be installed at two new 758 MW natural gas-fueled, combined-cycle power plants in Texas. The two power plants, which are owned by Panda Power Funds, will reduce incoming water needs by recycling and reusing more than 98 percent of their own ... Read more »

Energy Management Gets Spotlight at Super Bowl

February 5, 2013February 5, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Having the lights go out in the middle of the Super Bowl is the stuff of nightmares for energy and facility managers, but that’s exactly what happened Sunday. Half the lights in the Superdome went out during the Super Bowl and didn’t come back on for 35 minutes. Read more ... Read more »

NRG Energy Helps Net-Zero SF 49er Stadium Achieve LEED Certification

January 30, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

As the San Francisco 49ers gear up for the Super Bowl on Sunday, the football team has partnered with the Santa Clara Stadium Authority and NRG Energy to help the new facility become the first professional football stadium to open with LEED certification — and the first zero-energy sports venue ... Read more »

City Turns Human Waste into $2.1m in Crops

January 8, 2013November 13, 2016 by Leon Walker

Kansas City’s Water Services department has generated $2.1 million in net income over the past six years by reusing human waste as fertilizer on its own city-run biofuel farm – turning an expense into a revenue generator, the Kansas City Star reports. The city maintains more than 2,500 miles of sewers, treating 96 ... Read more »

Wastewater Snow-Making ‘Could Breed Super-Bacteria’

October 11, 2012October 12, 2012 by Leon Walker

Research carried out at the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort that earlier this year won a court case allowing it to use sewage effluent for snow-making has found that its wastewater system is a potential breeding ground for antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The report, titled Antibiotic Resistance Gene Testing of Recycled Water Samples in ... Read more »

SC Johnson, Clorox, Reckitt Products Fail in Online Safety Guide

September 11, 2012September 12, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

Cleaning products made by Clorox, SC Johnson and Reckitt Benckiser are among hundreds that received failing grades in an online safety and disclosure guide published by the Environmental Working Group. The online guide covers more than 2,000 household cleaners. The non-profit’s staff scientists spent 14 months examining product labels, company ... Read more »

Permit Battle Looms for Waste-Spreading on Farm Fields

AZ Snowbowl Fails on Environmental Scorecard

Stadiums and Arenas Use Efficient, High Wattage Lamps

Superdome Managers Worried About Outage Before Game

HIDS Lengthened Outage at Super Bowl

‘Greenest’ Super Bowl Offsets 3.8m Pounds CO2

Contract Wins: GE, AECOM, Imco and Superfund

Energy Management Gets Spotlight at Super Bowl

NRG Energy Helps Net-Zero SF 49er Stadium Achieve LEED Certification

City Turns Human Waste into $2.1m in Crops

Wastewater Snow-Making ‘Could Breed Super-Bacteria’

SC Johnson, Clorox, Reckitt Products Fail in Online Safety Guide

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