Carnegie Mellon University Archives - Environment + Energy Leader

EPA Wants National Fuel Efficiency Standard, Setting Up A Showdown with States

January 31, 2018February 13, 2018 by Ken Silverstein

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt told lawmakers on Tuesday that he favored a national fuel standard, putting in jeopardy the potentially stricter standards to be applied in California and Massachusetts and calling into question his earlier commitment to federalism and state rights.

IBM, Carnegie Mellon Expect $2M Savings from Smart Buildings Partnership

March 6, 2015March 5, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Carnegie Mellon University and IBM have launched the first cloud-based analytics partnership for smarter buildings. The university expects to save about 10 percent on utilities, nearly $2 million annually, when the IBM system is fully deployed across 36 buildings on its Pittsburgh campus.

How to Avoid Fracking Water Wars

May 28, 2014May 27, 2014 by Leon Walker

In some drier locations, the shale gas boom causes conflict among the energy industry, agricultural interests and residents over already-scarce water resources, according to researchers writing in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. According to Regional Variation in Water-Related Impacts of Shale Gas Development and Implications for Emerging International Plays, a major ... Read more »

Plug Load Dashboard Stirs Employees to Save 35% in Energy

April 25, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

Ray Yun, a doctoral student in the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed an intelligent dashboard to evaluate plug load energy savings in the workplace. Office workers who used the dashboard saved 35.4 percent in plug load energy compared to their colleagues. The dashboard lets building occupants ... Read more »

Do Hybrids Save Money? Depends How You Drive

June 11, 2013June 11, 2013 by Leon Walker

Vehicle window stickers, fuel economy standards and even life cycle studies offer incomplete efficiency estimates for vehicles because they often fail to account for driving conditions, a Carnegie Mellon University analysis has found. Researchers concluded that driving patterns have a substantial effect on the economic and environmental benefits of electric ... Read more »

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